New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-23
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The people Of England are growing
very FESTIVE under their present form Of
government and want q change. Royalty
is at discount and is too costly to be
supported with the decreasing revenue
forced from an almost impoverished popu.
lation. Straws show which way the wind
blows. One of those straws was the re.
port of meeting held in March last, al
which it was declared that "a Republican
form of government was the only one
capable of developing the great resources
of the country, and worthy of the conf.
dence and support of all true Democrats, u
and the resolution was carried by accla.
| nation.
An article appears in Fraser's Magazine,
published by Froude, the historian, which
is credited to workingman, in which
the writer says:
For years past Republicanism has been
spreading among the working classes
doctrlnally to such q degree that it is in
some more or less modified from the po-
Utica! creed Of ninety nine men in hun
dred having any political feeling or belief
at all.
Repubicanism, as it now exists in
England, is founded less on pure admira-
ton of its own professed principles than
upon hatred and contempt for royalty and
its concomitants.
Referring to the dowry of Princess
Louise he remarks:
Taking the dowry question in the light Of
q political contest, the technical victory Of
the monarchial party was more disastrous
than defeat. If, when it became evident
that there was q strong feeling in the coun-
try against granting the dowry. the demand
for it had been Withdrawn, that, combined
with the fact that the marriage was one in
which natural affection had been allowed to
override the unnatural marriage act, would
have made royalty more popular with the
working classes than it had been for many
years. Now it is infinitely more unpopular
than it has ever been before with the pres
ent generation.
And even more bitter will be the feel
ing Of the people at the annuity which
has been granted to Prince Arthur on
reaching his majority. Upon this matter
the Birmingham artisans, some thousands
in number, expressed themselves after
this fashion:
II son Of ours wen to ask public charity
from the poor law guardians, these gentlemen
would take good deal OF pains to find ont
whether his parents were able to support
him before doing out weekly allowance
of one dollar and twenty-five cents. II. by
nnv nha l.; g.
earning as much as could support hun, this
poor mans son would certainly be sent
home without his errand. Here is another
young man about to ask the representatives
Of the nation to give him an allowance of
$500 week. Why not make the same in
quiries about him, and why not say. what
any Of ourselves would do, were he prime |
'go home to your mother.
When, in addition to all this and much |
more Of the same revolutionary talk, We
observe that the royal children are called |
'cubs," the dynasty is pronounced |
''brainless and sensual George the Third
is characterized as that ''bloody minded |
brutal tyrant who had to 60 down to the
house in great humility and acknowledge
he independence of the brave Americans
He is stigmatized as that bloated Hano-
7erian old rat, fit successor to the cLoleric
md plethoric George the Second. George
he First is an ''old boor," and his living
descendants ''semi-foreign and whole
locusts from foreign land
Prominent members of Parliament, with
vorkingmen as their constituents, are
boldly favoring republican principles.
When Mr.. Auberon Herbert, member of
Parliament for Nottingham, not long ago
tinted to his constituency that when they
Eere once rid of that good but oppressive
Incubus, the Queen, they should treat
themselves to ruler of their own choos-
ng, he was loudly applauded for the SEN
iment which he uttered. There is IN
oubtedly among the starving masses an
ntagonism to the costly, useless burden
f monarchy, in which they are not
rivileged to control by voice or vote. In
be midst Of the misery and want of that
eople, is it any wonder that they should
esire change which they believe will ,
lleviate their sufferings? Gladstone and ,
is cabinet do not care to create opposi-
on among the masses, for he counts the I
lfuence of their friends, the liberal ,
lembers of the House of Commons. The I
orking classes are the republicans of ,
ngland, and when, of the 81, 465, $50 {
sople Of that country, four-ffths belong a
the working classes, it will not be very a
ficult to determine the result of strug- ,
e for the mastery as between TIE repub- a
cans and monarchists. :
What the republicans seek, looking at +
e matter practically, and having regard h
the spirit of compromise that so ,
rgely enters into English politics, is to +
event the cost of monarchy being in .
eased; to keep it strictly within its I,
'enly and directly avowed limits, and RI
nerally to pave the way to such state is
affairs and opinion that when another e.
an the now reigning sovereign comes to |sz
dealt with, materially different ar is
ngement, possibly an am;cably settled :
could be effected. If they find :,
emselves making reasonable advances 9,
this direction, all will be we'll. If they 6;
d they are defed, and their views set at I;
ught, then will be repetition Of such q,
'rk as there was before the repeal of the .,
m laws-perhaps worse. "