New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-02
infant mortality follows tho extension of the sys-


TEN of infant life insurance That Is TO cay 10 inc
richest country of the world humanity is so hard
pressed and degraded that mothers MURDER 5neir I
babies for few shilirngs. what Dut radica,
change do compulsory education and extension or
the franchise mean when at the base OF society
Is such seething hell -, -, -,
One of the important effects which tho lrlsn
movement has produced on the English side OF 81.
Georges Channel is IN showing how men, 10 whom
the attempt would otherwise be hopeless, may rise
into prominence by attaching themselves TO q pop
ular cause. he House OF Commons has hltnerto
been only somewhat less arlstOcratic body than
the House of Lords. Men of the type who starting
without advant ages work their way 10 tnc
front in American ard colonial politics are 10 ne
found only among the members who owe their seats
10 the Irish movement. Mr.. Parnell rs landeo gem
tleman, one of the lass to whom Parliamentairy
career has always been deemed possible Dut tne
abest of his supporters are OF class 10 whom Lhc
distinction of writing NJ. r. after their names mas
hitherto been almost as hopeless as marriage
with princess Of the blood. AS might DC exc
pected, this is beginning TO rouse the ambition OF
men conscious of powers, who have hitherto been
deferred from any thought OF political career
until they had amassed wealth or secured promni-
nence-such class came to the front IN the
French Revolution. .
Significant of coming change are the Mock Pariac
ments which have sprung up in such numbers Oh
Thousand members hold their meeting with all the
form-and some OF them with all the pomp even 10
be-wigged Speaker and big maceI0f the donse
which meets at Westminster, and debate not only
the questions discussed by that all-powerui body,
but measures farmore sweeping than have yet been
introduced in it. They both indicate and stimulate
newly aroused ambition, and are the schools from
which will emerge men destined to take prominent
part in the order of things now close at hand
But there are still deeper and more slrnihcanI
indications of coming change to be disceTned-
In all the various branches of British Protestant
ism, and, perhaps most powerfully IN the EstaD-
matte beliefs has for some time been going on The
Thirty -nne Articles and the Westminster Comics
sion of Faith yet retain their places b9t only as
empty forms. "We do not preach against them,
but no longer preach them" said TO me last
winter in the North of Scotland typical minister
of one of the branches of the Scotch Kirk in which
the spirit of the old scottish theology might be
pected longest to survive: But that tins great
change means not death but revivifcaticn is !
Christianity is fading away that side which
carried religion OF obscure peasants
Ersm the the RSH CGTH to fRe
body from. Oxford graduates OF the Established
Church of England to Gaelic catechists
day religious organization in Great Britain which
does not contain among it preachers and teachers
men burning with religious enthusiasm for reforms
foundations of privilege. Something stronger
than the combination of " Atheism, Malthusianism
and Republicanism" is coming 10 the 'front.' some
thing more capable of rousing enthusiasm and in
In the polished society Of England to day. the
Salvation Army is regarded with something of the
amused contempt with which the cul tnred Roman
of the first centuries of must have regarded
that uncouth Galean superstition then begin
rans. Bnt the thoughtful must see In an organza-
ton that raise the enthusiasm and do the
work that the Salvation Army has al
AS preached IN churches whore Dives occupies the
best pew and Lazarus woud be ashamed to enter,
Christianity may be a buwark of conservation;
but let loose in alleYs and byways. and
preached to the and the outcast by enthusiasts
of their own class, 1t cannot he so muzzed that II
will not be revolutionary force Whatever be it's
absurdites the Salvation Army carries into that |
secthing mass of want and suffering in which the
foundations of the English social structure are laid
the message that it was for such as they that |
CHRIST died, and for such as they that the mansions
of Heaven have pl been prepared: In s the
yatlon Army has had primary part, and they can
hardly tail to turn 10 something partaking of the
nature of Sociaiistic propaganda the work OF ms
powerful organization But he this rs II may II is
in this dIrcction.in arousng conscience against
social iniusicethat the effects of that exposure
will bennost powerfully felt.
There will be enough TO point the moral Therc |
is radical literature circulating largely In Eng
land, and radical discussion of social subjects go
effects. While Parliament IL passing land pur- |
chase bills for Ireland, aud titled landowners are |
getting up associations to extend pea AIT propre-
lish law equal and unalienable Is rapidly gain
ing ground among the masses into whose hands
kaeidoscoplc change which has ended Irish
coercion shows how quickly changes may come |
The impending election marks in English politics the
close of one political epoch and the beginning OF
another. Whether it is carried by Liberals or |
Tories makes little difference, for IA much and even
more is to be hoped from Tory bids for poDnlar |
support as from official Liberalism. Bat while |
tine new forces which the suffrage and redistnbu- |
ton bills have brought into English politics can |
Lardy as vet show their strength. the new ParlIa
ment will contain some representatives of n new |
element-the nucleus OF party that does not ask |
favor for the dsinheritcd masses, bat demands
their rights his is the party to which the future
belongs As soon as the retirement Of Nr. Glad |
stone ends the spell which has snbordlna.ed Radl-
calisin to Whiggery true political division will
begin 10 appear. HENRY GEORGE