Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-29
Wednesday Morning, June 29. 1881.
REpUBLICANIsM IN ENGLAND.

The growth of Republicanism in England has of late been very rapid and some close observers of affairs in that country believe that the inevitable struggle with monarchy and aristocracy is not far distant. One of the signs of the times is plan to form an English Republican party. The leaders of the movement have drawn up document containing reasons for establishing Repub- lican organization in England. A copy of this document has been sent to the Boston Adoerttse, by London correspondent, and it is very interesting and significant reading. To preach simple, intelligible, rational Republican gospel, divested of association with any other 'isms," is declared to be the object of the proposed organization. For this the time is believed to be ripe, and some of the reasons given for this belief are in substance as follows:
 The marvellous success of the two great republics of the world, and the correspond ing discredit attaching to the monafshisaa. governments. After making allowance for all their natural advantages every one must candidly admit that large share of the pros perity of the United States and France is due to their form of government. In England, under aristocratic institutions, we have had prosperity, but the wealth of the country has been, generally speaking, retained by the few, while in France and America it has been distributed broadcast among the people. This is distinctly due to democracy in it's spirit and form. Just and equal land laws, absence of privileged classes, laws made for | the equal benefit of all-these are the char | acteristies of these great republics but they are not characteristic of the aristocratic mon archy of England.
 The approaching breakup of the existing | political parties. The Liberal party is now kept intact simply by the magnetic force of
 one man-Mr. Gladstone His death or re-
 tirement would be the signal for break be-
 tween the Wings and Radicals, who have | scarcely principle in common, and who
 were united at the late elections by accident | al opposition to the policy of Lord Beacons-
 field. "But negation supplies no bond,"
 and union between Wings and Radicals of l anything more than temporary character is
 wholly improbable and even impossible in | future.
 1 No one believes in the monarchy, or would | maintenance. The whole thing is so unreal,
 so palpably sham, that thousands of honest
 men, whose minds are freed from supersti-
 tion, would gladly combine to get rid as soon | as possible of such a ridiculous imposture. l Monarchy is ignoble and undignifed. It
 is absurd that great statesman like Glad l stone should be compelled to submit his pro- posals to an ignorant, prejudiced and stupid 1 woman.
 The progress of the country is retarded by monarchy, because we may be sure that the great reforming measures which are be-
 ing demanded, measures relating to the
 land system, the church, the House 1 of Lords, etc., will never obtain I the willing consent of the monarch. Court
 influence will be secretly used to keep back
 the settlement of these questions and reduce | popular reforms to a minimum. This can only result, if the people are in earnest, in
 conflict and violence, the real source of dis
 turbance, the court, being all the while care- | fully kept, by family arrangement among l statesmen of both sides, in the background. Reality and sincerity are destroyed by a number of empty, silly fctions engendered 1 by monarchy, and the character of the peo- 1 pie is thereby deteriorated and their political
 progress retarded.
 l Monarchy is either reality or it is not. ] If it is, then it is pernicious, because anti
 popular if it is not, then it is useless. In l either case it is not well to keep it up It is
 not to be supposed that we who object to the monarchy are for it's instant destruction We l ;4, oIo ;toI of course, desirable, and wish to make the 1 people regard it in the same light, and so
 prepare them for the republic
 This is plain talk and it is said to faith
 fully express the sentiments of very many of
 the purest-minded and most sagacious politi-
 cal thinkers in England. It may not have
 any immediate effect upon the country, but 1 1t is a step forward