New-York tribune., 1871-09-07
ENGLISH REPUBLICANS.

Some persons styling themselves the Repub-
lican Committee Of England have issued
programme Of the party they claim to repre-
sent, asking for many things good and bad
The proclamation does not seem to be dated
from Tooley-st., sndit isprobably signed by more
than one-third Of q man, or the Press agents
would not have thought it worth sending by
cable. It asks in the first place for the prin-
ciple Of federation to be applied to the King
dom. This is rather indefinite, and leaves us
in doubt whether the federal divisions are to
be kingdoms or counties. Our system
of States is probably responsible for
this fanciful federalism which haunts
the imaginations of all European repub-
ncans. The Committee next demands the
abolition of all titles and privileges, and this
they will probably get some day-leaving titles
to subsist merely as a social distinction. But
what will become, in that case, Of Mr.. Carlyle
and the Lords John Manners, who imagine
they are confronting Chaos when the Upper
House is touchedf The suppression OF mo-
nopOlies is suggested which means different
things to any two men who talk about it.
The abolition of standing armies is good repub-
lican doctrine everywhere, and every country in
Europe is in deadly need of it. Compulsory ed
ucation is also an unexceptionable demand But
the next clause of the platform launches us In
the wide sea of Communism. The State must
provide work for laboring men and sustenance
for those who cannot work. Land must be
nationalized. Legislation must be popular and
republicanism diffused. This mingling of
reason and madness, of common sense and
robbery, of English honesty and Latin levity,
ia curious illustration of the ferment OF
spirit which always precedes and accompanies
great revolutions. 1t is possible that by ju-
dicious management the important changes
which the British Constitution is still to un-
dergo may be effected without bloOdshed or
serious disorder.
There is little doubt that republicanism is
making enormous progress among the working
classes of England But while the dregs OF
the party remain at home constant menace
and poison to peace and good government, we
get the best of them in America. Few people
are aware of the enormous proportion of En-
glish people who annually immigrate here.
During the quarter ending the 3Oth of last
June, 1894 persons left the British Islands for
the United States, and 37,876 of these were
English, s,545 Scotch, and the rest Irish.
dispatch of this morning informs Us from Liv-
erpool that $4,000 persons emigrated to Amer
ica from that port during the last month. Now
as the excess of births over deaths in the United
Kingdom is not more than $4,000 annually, if
this immense drain of the best and most thrifty
of the peasantry continues, the question as to
what is to be done with the diminishing
resduum becomes a most important one. The
English have strong local attachments Most
~ fhnp, uhn tn
day to return, but they rarely do, and their
children are good and loyal citizens. Their
influence in letters and in visits is constantly,
though sometimes uncOnsciOusly, exerted in
favor of republcanism. Every young man
who is forced out of England by the conse-
quences of bad government aoe unjust laws
assumes in the act share in the republican
propaganda at home.