Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-02

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helA In hisbes bseos in this eossssy
thaa sny Oder living En9iishose-
unless Josa Bright be exc~p4ai. His
hieA pessoaal ckarsrser and his repus.-
tioa . writer. ssstesoaa aDi scholar.
gill ensass . side reading oa vhsteves
be may chose 10 ny. An article of his
in the eurrsnt number Of the ksvTk
An.rss. Rsss<r, On Kin B<yoaa the
Sea- 10 Of especial infefesf 10 A@ers-
en- r~...ers- II cont.iss . candid soj
philosophical diseas<ion al the PolIfi-
cal Institutions of Engissa and AD<Fi-
es-theiT resrmblanes-s, di1erepces snd
respective inertia Mr.. 0ls.issoue hes
made thorough study % AsesicAa in
ssitufions, and his article coat.ins none
of shose crude IDEAS OF nsissssenenss Of
fact which are geuesaliy characteristic
81 for. ian writer's On the sahj~et-
Mr.. 0ladssone begins Nth IN &C.
knos;edgmsnt Of Anericsis superiority
i'm re- ourcrs, and an admission thsf IN
the not far defiant future she vii
urs.s from England the commercial
primsey u the World On this point
he says:
..She IAnericaI viii probably be-
come, what Ne are Doe, the bead SER
want in the great household Of the
world. the employer Of ell employed,
because her service gill he the mot
and Abies,. We have no more title
against her than Venice, or Genoa. or
Holland has against ~. One great
duty 10 ensailed upon ms which ve un-
fortunately n~glect-the duty OF pre-
pairing, by Q resolute AMI sturdy effort.
{, reduce our public burdens in pre-
paration for day when We shall prpba-
bly, have less capacity than we have
nov TO bear then.
Tue development which the republic
has effected has been unexampled in its
rapidity and force. While other conn
tries have doubled, or At most trebled
their population, she has risen, during
one single century Of freedom, in round
numbers, from two millions to forty
five. As to riches, it is reasonable to
establish. from the decennial stages Of
the progress thus far achieved, o series
for the future: and reckoning upon this
basis, suppose that the very next CEN
sus. in the year 1880, will exhibit her
to the world as certainly the wealthiest
of all the nations. The huge figure OF
81 ,OOO, O00, 900. which may be taken
roundly as the annual income OF the
United Kingdom, has been reached at
q surprising rate; a rate which may per-
haps be best expressed by saying that
if We had started forty or fifty years
ago from zero, at the rate Of our recent
annual Increment, we should have
reached our present position. But
while we have been advancing with
this porten tious rapidity. America is
passing US by in canter. Yet even
now the work of searching the soil and
the bowels OF the territory, and open
ing out her enterprise through its vast
expanse, is in its infancy. The Eng
land and the America Of the present are
probably the two strongest nations OF
the world. But there can hardly be
doubt, Us between the England and
the America of the future. that the
daughter OF some no very distant time
will. whether fairer or less fair, be I'M
questionably stronger than the mother" "
This extract will be sufficient to show
that Mr.. Gladstone writes in friendly
and appreciative spirit. OF course he
looks ut Republican institutions through
English spectacles, but the glasses are
very slightly colored. He does not
pretend to conceal his conviction that
hereditary, constitutional Monarchy
has advantages over . democratic Re-
public, yet he is unwilling to admit the
special advantages OF the latter. Hs
exposition OF the working of the Eng
lish Constitution has little in it that Is
new to intelligent Americans, except
his description OF the relations OF the
Cabinet to the House of Commons on
the ono hand, and the Sovereign on the
other. The criticisms made upon our
Constitution are, for the most part.
those that have been frequently made
by American writer's; such as the evils
growing out Of the frequency OF Presi-
Dental elections, the ''spoils" doctrine
in the Civil Service, the independence
of the Executive of public opinion dur.
ing his term of Office, the inability OF
Cabinet officers to defend and support
their measures in Congress.
With what Mr.. Gladstone says, there
fore, there is little fault to be found.
To what he everywhere implies We
must take o positive exception. His
idea seems to be that our Constitution
should be greatly modified in some par
ticulars, in imitation Of England's.
But our Constitution is q growth as
we'll O.. that Of England, and . general
remodelling OF it, however desirable in
theory, could not be brought about
without u political revolution whose
consequences no man can fOresee. That
the Presidents term will be extended
and the Civil Service reformed, there
can be no question. It may be, also,
that the Cabinet will be granted seats
in Congress. Further than this We can
hardly go without danger; such other
changes a. arc made will be the out
growth Of time ami necessity. It 10 too
late for US to dream Of making another
Constitution, or of suddenly and VIC.
lentiy modifying the one We have, even
II such course were ,lesirable.-Chr0s-
iris aud Herald. philadelphia.