Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-08
coming European Revolutions.

Among the governments OF Europe,
that OF the Car Of Russia represents
absolutiam, while that Of the Queen of
England is the most liberal OF all the
monarchies Of the world Tho history
Of Russia has furnished proof, not in
frequently, that change Of rulers ma
terially affects for veal or woe the con-
dtion OF the people. In Great Britain,
on the contrary, for two hundred years
past, IL has mattered but little who the
sovereign has been. Neither Victoria
nor her son, were he to succeed her to.
morrow, can bo aught but the nominal
head of tho British people, as such not
possessing personally the power of the
president of any republic now existing.
Why is IL then that in England as in
Russia well.founded fears OF attempts
against the life Of the monarch agitate
society," In either country the form
which tho agitation assumes is but a
symptom of the disease preying upon
the vitals of the body polite. And the
disease is identical although the symp
toms be not quite the same. If ii be
possible to imagine an England of two
epochs separated by centuries one from
the other, then we may comprehend
the better the actual condition OF Russia.
When the magma charta was wrested
from John Of England the barons were
also the people of the realm, but it was
bv the vote Of representatives from all
classes OF tho commonwealth that
Charles | was sent to the block. In
Russia, noble and peasant are working
in unison for their united complete On.
franchisement. The feudal lords of
Russia never enjoyed the privileges OF n
magma charta, but the feudal tenure
came to end when the late Gar emanci-
pated the serfs. Thus the political
thirteenth and seventeenth centuries OF
England are represented in Russia by
the nineteenth. We have said that the
government Of Great Britain is the most
liberal Of the monarchies of tho world
But il is such only in theory, Fortu
nately for the United States, the boastec
liberality OF Great Britain was name
merely, for the founders of the great
els. s.atlantic commonwealths were mel
who fed from that tyrany which, not
withstanding magma eharta and the
great bill of rights, then oppressed then
as il still oppresses our transatlantic
kinsmen. All Britons are equal before
the law, an Englishman's house is his
castle, and the right to the writ o
Aabeas corpus is inviolable. Thes'
things have been repeated so often thai
the worlds understanding ha
become dazed. For these things ar
mere brilliant falsehoods. The house o
aow.born Englishman is never his castle
1t does not even entitle him to the privi
lege of really being u house. holder unles
its yearly rental is of certain value
In England caste is an institution almos
as sacred and fully as strong as in India
Any man Of British birth may bccom
Lord Chancellor Of England, but OF tn
millions OF men born in the lower rank
of society how many ever attained t.
that positionf How many of them hay
ever reached the peerage? How man,
Of them ever rise from the hereditar
bondage which has always been the lo
OF their foreiathers? In Scotland to-da
the tenant OF great hereditary lano
holder does not take his horse from tn
plough in order to accompany his lord
war, but exactions even more oppresaiy
bind him to the position of his ancesto
of three hundred years ago. The onl.
right he has is the right to emigrate
that is, if he bo not deported that th
lands his forefathers titled may b
turned into deer preserves. And in
yet integral portion of Great Britain
which contains while it does not suppol
one.iifth of the number of British sui
jects living in Great Britain, Britons al
not equal before the law and the writ {
habeas corpus is unknown. British Iii
erty is for Britons who Were born fire.
not for the many-handed substratu
which by its labor maintains itself
practical serfdom. In England, as
Russia, n disposition to resort to the us
Of dynamite for the purpose of BLOWN
up an objectionable person is but OF
symptom among many. While it is Il
most violent it is the least to be dreaded
1t marks, as the Others do, the will
the people to be really free, and the d
termination OF the people to Cover
itself for the best interests of the who
body polite
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