Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-06
ST. C.. TO "w. c."

please permit me to congratulate you,
"in the friendliest but frankest man
ner," on your discovery OF q question
that has but one side to it, Such q
discovery should be patented at once,
and should make your fortune, as it
will bar all discussion and may intro
duce the millenium. But while this
good time is coming, we will be COM
pelled to discuss questions with more
than one side.
& The principal difference between
yourself and T. G.. in regard to 1.-THE
Irish Question" evidently arises from
the difference In the ends In view In
its discussion. w. G. evidently took
up the question with = view to having
. ride on his agrarian bicycle, Land
Reform. Our forefathers called those
things hobbies, but they are now en-
bodied in the bicycle. On the contrary.
+. c. discussed the question with q
view to opening up for his distressed
fellow-countrymen some way out of
their difficulties. The life of T. G. has
been one long course Of training for
controversy, and he will not permit w.
G. to ride into the Irish question on his
gothic steed. It is true that abuses In
regard to lands are only one class of
the causes Of Irish grievances. Mount
ed on his bicycle, w. e. cannot see any
other cause, and 80 concludes that the
Irish question has hut one side to 1t.
Insanity or monomania Is merely one
sidedness. w. c. very kindly refers
T. C. to Reynolds's Newspaper, the
London Radical, and /" The Irish
Question" by Henry George. T. Z.
cannot accept as authority any publ
cation written from q partisan stand
point in the heat Of conflict. He will
accept ascertained facts, but reserves
the right to make his own deductions.
w. C. agrees with T. G. that Irish
grievances arise from British misrule,
but tries to differ with him in regard
to the origin Of that misrule. He says:
T. e. ''is wrong when he asserts that
relic of Roman despotism." But w.
G.. commits suicide when he adds, in
the same sentence, Though it must
be admitted that England and every
English nationality is fast approaching
the very evils that cursed the Roman
empire out of existence" Now If En-
gland, under Norman rule, IS nota
relic of Roman despotism, how did
those very evils which cursed the. Ro-
man empire find their way. not only
into England, but every English ma
tionality?
w. C. says that "with Harold the
last vestigc of Roman rule aud Roman
law expired, and with William came
in the feudal system. especially with
regard to the tenure of the soil, the
most vital point In nations pros
perity." w. G. then undertakes to
make a gap in British constitutional
history through which he can ride his
gothic steed.
It is now necessary to instruct that
misguided young man In regard to the
relations existing between the Roman
law, the so-called British constitution,
and the Irish question.
British history has two ages of fact,
separated by IN age of fiction. Bat If
we cling to the ages Of fact, we will
find that England recelved her Roman
law in three installmrnts.
The first installment came when, in
AS, the Angles, sorely pressed by the
Scots and Picts, called in the .Saxons,
who came and settled in the country.
The Saxons were at that time an inte-
grail part of the Roman empire, for
they did not set up an independent
government until 47G. Their ccnling
to England was an individual enter
prise those who came were filibus-
ters. who probably brought very little
law with them above their own will, !,
but If there was any 1t was Roman
lay.
The second instaIlment came when
Ethelbert. King of Kent, married
Bertha, the daughter of Charibert,
King of Paris. She was a member of
the Christian Church, and through
her influence Gregory the Great in
596 sent over forty Benedictine monks,
with Augustine at their head, to estab-
lish the church in Britain. These men
were the exponents of the idea of o
united church nnd state, SO that min
lister in the church must understand
the civil law. These forty-one men
were chosen on account OF their con-
address and force Of cilarac-1
ter, and were learned in the Roman
law, and brought it with them. The
took that time.
The third installment came in with
and the Normans. The
Franks, Of whom the Normans were
q part, established In France nn inde-
pendent kingdom In 407, out Of . part
Of the Roman empire. Their common
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