St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-03
ENGLAND,s SITUATION.

Editor Globe: AS one of your many
English readers, j have read your arti-
Giles upon the Irish difficulties in Great
Britain with very great interest, and
as IL has all along caused me great
regret to see an influential paper like the
GIoBE-a paper at once so well informed and
uupreiudiced as a general rule-falling some
what into misconceptiou of the true state of
affairs, and presenting its readers with any
thing but an unbiased view of the real issues
at question.
The above is an extract from letter of
well-informed English gentleman who re-
sides i'm this state. 1t is possible that the
reason our correspondent thinks that the
GLOBE does not take an unbiased view of
the English situation is because we view it
from an entirely different standpoint than
an Englishman would, and consequently
our views are less liable to bias. The
GLOBE has discussed the subject of home
rule and Ireand's relations to the English
government from an exclusively American
standpoint. As the United States acquired
its existence as an Independent nation after
seven years hard fighting with England, it
is natural that an American citizen should
sympathize with any other nation OF peo-
pie who are struggling to enjoy the same
independence. If we are biased in our
views it comes from that sympathy which
! those who have undergone suffering have
/ for those who suffer. But rising above all
sentiment or sympathetic feeling, we still
see no reason TO recall anything that has
been said in the GLOBE concerning English
affairs. A just, impartial review of the
situation must bring the dsinterested
observer of English affairs to the
same conclusions we have reached. The
English people themselves admit it. The
refusal of Lord HARRINGTON to form a
ministry is confession that the cause of
hereditary privilege in England is hopeless.
There is a strong sentiment i'm England i'm
favor of remodeling the British constitution.
This sentiment is growing stronger every
day, and its tendency is toward the estab-
lishment of a government similar TO that of
the United States. The question of home
rule has arisen above local application to
Ireland, and is rapidly assuming the form of
an issue affecting all British subjects
equally. The demand is now being
made for local parliaments in every
county of the British realm. When Con-
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appeals 10 the political leaders of Great
Britain to go to work and reconstruct the
government on the American plan as the
only possible solution of problem that
threatens the integrity of the realm, it ought
not be a matter of surprise that an Ameri-
can newspaper should insist upon the same
thing. So far as Ireland is concerned, if
the Irish people are willing that Ireland
should come in sovereign state in their
new British confederacy that is TO be
created, then nobody would have the
right to object TO it. But the American
people can never be forced into a
concession of the business of proposition
that territory which has been acquired by
conquest shall be compelled to remain as a
part of an independent republic. Such en-
forcement would be a travesty on the free
dom of republic. If the British constitu-
ton is to be remodeled in imitation of Amer
lean institutions, then it must rest upon the
fundamental principles of our government,
of which the consent of the governed is the
most essential to its existence.