New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-15
EUROPEAy REPUBLICANISM.


FUROPEAN REPUBLICANLSM
During the three months in which we have
been arranging our Government in the un-
blibablo and reasonable mode prescribed by
our advanced civilization, the relations OF
the upper and lower orders throughout Europe
have remained almost unaltered. In England,
the people" the mob, dangerous faction" as
Sir Leicester Dedlock was wont 20 call them
on the one hand, and the Dedl0cks on the
other. face each other with the old implacable
antipathy and stold lack of comprehension.
There il no want of kindly compassion and
even a certain sense Of brotherhood rs fellow
Britons, from peer to peasant; but the dill
Guilty is precisely tho same as that be-
tween two animals of different species.
With the opening Of the Winter the
great charities Of London received new inn
petus and strength. There are also divers
general schemes inaugurated for the relief OF
the poorer classes during the continuance OF
the increased price of coal and meat but the
very man who contributes hundreds of pounds
in aims in town, and Willingly sustains
schools, soup, and flannel societies on his own
estate, grinds down the laborers on that
estate to a necessity of starvation. In SOmer-
setshire the average wages OF the agricultural
laborer are 81 90 per week, out Of which is
paid the rent of his cottage and garden. The
family to be supported out of this amount
numbers usually from four to fourteen per-
Sons. In some OF these families meat had not
been tasted for six months in Others
not for year. Eighteen daily hours of
off in rnttI or
these wages. The only notice taken by the
landed gentry of the condition Of these labor
ers has been weak and turgid speeches, try
ing to convince the starving boOr that it being
Gods will that he should be a b0Or, and his
masters that he should starve, il was his re-
lIgious duty to submit to both. Lord Port
man, on behalf of his order, has just publicly
characterized the Union of Agricultural Labor
ers rs Illegal and perilously revolutionary;
although, as The Examiner Acknowledges, the
leaders of Che Union are usually Method SIS
and 1eetotaners, and begin and close their
meetings with prayer. Meanwhile, the Prince
of Wales strengthens his soul for the exercise
of his high Office 10y the daily shooting OF tame
pigeons, and last week by butchering an OK,
which by making believe very hard took rank
as Il wild bull-by brcyet DsalteCtiOn toward
the Royal Family and House of Lords is not 50
openly expressed as prior to the Princes i'll
ness. King Log is to be preferred, after all,
to possible King Stork.
In France, the triumph Of the Republic in
six out of seven of the recent elections indi-
Gates that wholesome moderate progress has
actually taken place IN the French popular
crecd-that the Fnnchman begins to believe
he can rule himself unassisjad by the gull
lotine. Brittany alone (Which clung to Druid
ism for centuries in the midst of Christian
Europe) remains stubbornly faithful to Legit-
imism and the priesthood. In Spain, the in
surrection which took place at FoIrol has been
repudiated by both Republicans and AlfonsIsts,
arguing, as is claimed by the present min
istIy, secret though a. yet uneyprcSsed salts
faction with the new dynasty. Senior Gorilla,
who presldcs over the present Government,
stated boldly to the Republicans that in four
years they had, gained. by accepting Amadeus
and monarchy, liberty of worship, civil
marriage, liberty Of education, and indi-
ydual rights-substantial ben fits not to
be Outweghed by the doubtful chances
of Republican Government in twenty years.
1t is proposed also to establish national
IIypothecating Bank, "to facilitate the sale
"of landed properly and establish a class of
" small landowners class at once conserya-
a." tive and laborious7 The establishment of
any Woodworking, energetic middle class in
Spain would require something more we sus-
pect, than lcgislating or banks; nothing less
than IA translation Of foreign blood into the
veins of that drowsy, easy going people would
suffice.
n, Iob e Of
Republican principles, however. are everywhere |
When monarches openly claim to !
depend for their stability on their reforms in |
favor Of the people, the cause Of the people |
advances with surer steps toward final tri- |
umph than when they dance the mad Car !
magnole in the blood of their oppressOrs