New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-27
MORE BAD LOGIC,


We shall be compelled to put the PIX
into the elementary text book, if it does
not reason more logically. 1t vindicates
the superior excellence of monarchy by
quoting a case in which an English
representative has been convicted o.
bribery, because he allowed his tenants te
shoot rabbits within the prohibited de-
| grees of the English game law. Nc
American representative has been con
victed of bribery for having granted
similar permission. Therefore a repub
lican majority pronounced "notoriously
| incompetent" is worse government thar
a monarchy. Now setting apart the SUI
perior excellence of a government which
makes the life of rabbit equal il
value to the liberty Of man, we respect
fully suggest that a comparison of the
two forms Of government can not be fairly
| made from such accidents
We do not choose to discuss the differ.
ence between the English people and the
subjects of the Shah Of Persia, nor tc
assign the Queen. of England her proper
position in the category of monarchs.
The ar gument has not been made to-day
that the King of England has been
chosen by the people, nor is the evidence
wanting that that same people cut off his
head, or run him out Of the country if he
Systematically violated his compact with
the people. Even now the Queen may
save herself and Office by the simple ex-
pedient Of tossing prime minister out Of
the win dow, and replacing him with one
whom the people send into his place. We
do not then take this confession that a
representative under monarchy will COM
NIT what he knows to be bribery, as suffi-
Gent to enter nolle prosequi against
monarchies, and renounce the defense OF
republican institutions. Nor do we &C
cept the free rabbit hunt as any evidence,
except of disposition to be bribed and a
very cheap estimate of the value of vote,
so We do not as the Picayune suggests
Find in such incidents conclusive evil
dences of the depravity of morals and hos
tility to popular rights which are insep-
arabic from all monarchial and aristocratic
institutions.
To adopt the Picayane rule of logic,
suppose we should say that in neither
Massachusetts, nor Tennessee has repre-
sentative been convicted Of bribery. 1t
would have nothing german to the
comparison Of systems. The constituent
of an English member may sell his
vote for rabbit skin. A Kentuckian or
a louisiana n may have more just esti-
mate of the market value of suffrage, one
may have been bribed because he is a
fool, while the other is unimpugned be-
cause of superior intelligence. A COM
parison of the two systems can be only
made from history, special examples are
unjust. There was king Of France shout
ing to his subjects of one religious sect to
kill his subjects Of another religious sect
Then were the courts Of Europe at
the same old date on an immoral
par with Basin street? Such special
capacity for cruelty and vice, prove 10
NOR than the massacre Of thousands by
the French Republicans Of 1893. Per-
haps the people who tolerated both gov
ernments were unfit for any other. To
show the Picayune the illogical deduc-
tons from limited and special facts. we
will put in little item about the kings
A grand duke under the autocracy of
Russia, has been arrested for the crime
of theft. How is that for high, Mr.. Pic?
Those diamonds must have been valua-
BILE. 1t must have been very important
to stop kings sons from stealing jewelry,
otherwise this scandal Of the royal family
would not have been tolerated. If this
young spark had copied King David,
with regard to Uriah the Hittite and
lady, not word had been said
about him. If he had logged or
kicked the soul out of some insignificant
Russian flunkey, the court journals would
have been dumb Had the Prince, as
many princes and noLlene1o have been,
from the royal "father of good many of
his people in one English reign to ''the
first gentleman in the kingdom bank
rupt in purse, character and morals, in
another, it would have proved nothing
for Or against monarchy. We except to
the Picayune plan of putting fresh MUIR
der, riot or larceny upon every breakfast
table and contrasting it with the just and
kindly rule of the kings. Queen Vic
toria may taste the hospital Cruel
Of a sick soldier; she may be-
stow money upon a sergeant wounded
in extending her empire over the territory
Of her royal brother Of Ashantee-it
may be the very money she declined to
give her farm laborers in demand for
better wages and easier hours. All
his proves nothing either for or against
as principle. Let the Picayane
abandon this argument of general con-
,lusion drawn from particular and Sc
ected insta noes and adopt some more