New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-04
ENGLISH REPUBLICANISM.


thousand and they still increasing out or ratio Z
the increase Of population there. say II they would
throw these seven million acres OF lana 9ack 70 ths
let Us cultivate the land tey own. and II these men who
now go 70 the Union workhouse the men who are now
uespass into Jail aud make them criminals When we
only want them to I've menif they would only let these
that would bo 'R much. az" Thes e0 men arc goo
ignorant ignorant now and we have to 90 the
DONE and that our State Church has prevented
being done IN the land Let the House Of Lords also
to abolish the House OF Lords: at least do not what
DO want 70 abolish the House OF Lords which Is not
peers Of intellect do not mean that we have not
some there who are worthy OF their II would he
vantage OF culture IN a land which has literature
TO boast OF II would be strange IL some OF our irst
the mass are mott that they do not do their
duty. In that house; that from years end to
when the Government whip brings them to hinder pro-
gress and not to redeem the people. They there
when u comes 20 letting the flood OF human life 20
freely on they only come to dam the torrent forget
| tihg that they VIII DO carried away by 1t.
| SPAIN AND FRANCE NOT REPUBLICS.
plead to for the utility Of our movement IL is
needful that we should have the long before
we get into republic. II you make republic sud
denly In country 1t cannot be real Take Spain
| take France.
Spain is not republic to-day. although every journal
which Is hired for the monarchy, either interest
by title by money pleads as If it were Spain is
NOT republic. Spain is only country in
which few gallant Republicans have got
TO the front, accepting the burden OF the despair
| ing nation which a cowardly monarchy. too base
sTea .oH So oS TO meet the disasters II has e
spain VIII ne republic. II eyer country deserved to
be one spain does, for the sake Of the in its front
II has there man whose grand oratory is only the
presons OF the poesy aud purity OF his mind and whose
pOesy ana purity go right through his life aud make
hun republican aud freeman in front OF the nation.
Emilio Casteldrs name, when history comes to be writ
Ten, "heInr ne succeeds or fails, Will yet be entitled
TO an emblazoned niche with the pure every kind,
VINO nave either achieved their coIntrys redemption
| or at any rate have died in the gulf they yanly
safely.
Take France. France is only a republic today
but never has been. You who mock with 80 93,
who tell me Of the French Revolution. do not tell
me that that was republic Rather, viii! point you
TO France struggling against the armies OF petty
prince In Europe, hired out with British gold TO stab the
rep9Dnc front ana back, that mad George the Ihrd
might not have brought TO him the echo OF the
cry OF liberty that had out in Boston Bay and had
made IuG "SIlu anSe mere H. was uOt republic in
1913. John Smith or Louis Philippe away-prObably
the wisest tnlng many kings could 90 Tor Their col-
rles-Dut republic was not created Dy KING running
away. 1t wants nations life and effort and wherever
nation has submitted too much to personal govern
lneDt, wherever IL mas had too much centrahzsd ar
thority wherever has LETT the government machinery
too much to do, wherever 1t has abandoned its proper
individuality, wherever the people nave not felt then
duty, there never has been republic matter what
public In the mold OF war. You can break chains. but
you don't make man free man who has been bound
IN dungeon year after year, month alter month"; from
weary hour to weary hour, cannot make him free
prisonng OF his ideas through life that cngs to him and
burdens him. and his fOots aer and his cannot
You must accustom men gradually to ire dom, jlst
you must sparnglY feed when they have been long
starving adrit IN boat at and nave been rescued.
A MAN PLEADING FOR STRUGGLING MEN,
Having pleaded thus. Will tell you why am here to
speak. And really, when know for whom have not
the right to speak, when know for whom only have
the right to speak, cannot help fearing that the task
have undertaken may be task to which should not
have put my hand or tongue. In land like yours,
which from the fire OF Patrick Henry down to the pol
shed speech OF Phillips has sent man after man to plead
l. whom everyone In my country will tell you. lack
tongue lack voice, lack speech, lack everything which
should make a man pleader, who can boast Of no
quality to give me WARRANTED TO come here with my
speech you, Will plead only for the poor among
whom 7 was born. and for the rough among whom
excommunicated by the Church, only como here
plead for struggling men, In the hope that your
sympathy and your and may with us in the work we
are seeking 70 40 of our Ieue anu our
Your English edited journal cautions you not to offend
our arstocracy. Not TO offend our arstocracy What
are aristOcracy 10 yOui one hundred years ago,
when you struggling, 1t was that very arstocracy
Of aud and church, landed aristOcracy ana STATE
church-which gave food and money Mad King
to hlre Hsssan troops and bride lndans to ryage and
our paltry, wretched monarchy begged from the
Czar1na OF Russia loan OF troops 70 frighten YOU
when you were engaged In mighty conflict tired to
make ACKNOWLEDGMENT grow out OF the agony 90 not
speak for the arstOOracy. 1 speak for the poor men
Yorkshire and O Lancashire Tor the men Oi tue rae
tory and OF the coalp the men who during the cotton
famine, loyal you and your cause Never NINA
what the English editor here may say Tney were loyal
10 you ana your cause when the cotton famine eiped
their stonachs and every bride was held TO make them
turn against youl Applause And coming mere TO
speak what Is III have to sayt what warranty nave
for my speechi WHAT credentials can give 10 your
Why should speak 20 yOul Why should speak 10
youi-because are not alien race we speak the
same tongue think the same thoughts; our literature
and il il divides II divides at the bloody page which
did not help 10 write. and although the shame rests on
us, the generosity OF forgiveness may rest on you IL
Is our shame as well AS your misfortune, Appause,I
I- glou | IN NOul
language OF the present the same, as our memories IN
past of poet OF orator, Of thinker, OF freeman ar tue
same: speak that work and our hope IN the future
may be the same. am one OF those-madmen, II you
will-wh0 believe that the day Is coming wheH there
may federation OF all the English speaking people
through the world do not believe tha that eau come
with monarches with a monarchy having personal
ambition. personal aggrandizement personal interest
and personal feelings Under republic you oan nave
H. aud the purer it grows the you Will have the
blending together Of human endeayor Tor human happi
ness
AN APPEAL FOR SYMPATHY.
And plead to you for your aid In our work. When
say Your aid" do not mean your swords; | do not
mean your steel. The nation that cannot win Its own
deliyerance not deserve it the people who have
the parliament open TO them, and who cannot walk In
through the DOORS deserve to be left outside do not
ask your Steel but your pens do not ask Tor go PUT
ask for your brain, your sympathy Ihere is ghtir
force In me world than the sWOrd-a gntGr Uoe
the rid than the lannon's roar and that mighty 0rce
the force OF public opinion when, though gathers
only lke breath OF wlnd as SWEEPS "onoos tno
mighty ocean OF human life, sends wave ana wave w
and WRECKS the pr0udest snip ttt uitts W iu -
IAppausel And plead 10 you because we mean 70 go
with our work, aud want that When you rc1u oui
London Times, our Saturday Recleu, our tYaro-l want
that when you read In journal, printed IN your
city by some who ought to know DeIter IIutlhE
Housesquare had not left him the sghtest memory VI
things al home-(applausclI want that you snal say
Tney are not black they are palhteI lhey are
men who struggling now as we struggled once Oe-
fore and by the ot our grandfathcrs NOT yer
long dead we will keep the hope OF hDerty nSlIS' dn
they shall be taught that TINS Republic sha turn
against them in their hour Of need You must 90 more
Nm must act in your Republic thoroughly, as to en-
courage and show that ours Is worth living Or on
the other side. Thus may serve u.s. ana II Is Ior s
Ihaye come only sneak what a plain man may say.
better speaker for glorious cause wouiu nave Od
through, ana N | had that skill ana qulckness
of word / would for my purpose here - sueh mat
would do much gain IL, and you coulu ell me any