Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-03


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 LONDON, March 20.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 Well-meaning British supporters of for eign missions are often surprised at the re- Iatively slow rate at which the Christianizing of the "noble savage" advances, considering the money spent by various societies in send- ing out missionaries to teach him the gospel of peace, and the pains which have been taken to translate the heavenly message into his own particular tongue. The explanation of the mystery is not very difficult to find. One such little business as was done by the crew of Hsr Majesty's ship Diamond in the South Seas short while ago must be calcu- lated to outweigh century of instruction in Christian precepts. The poor islanders have long enough suffered outrage and robbery at the hands of the white ''labor trader" and because they at last are reused to retaliate upon some British subjects this is what hap pens. extract the following account from a London daily paper: "Her Majestys ship Diamond recently returned to Sydney after an absence of three months, during which she was busily employed punishing natives in various parts for murders committed by them upon British subjects. Boats crews were sent ashore, and not only were the will lages destroyed and the cocoanut plantations laid waste, but an armed party marched through the island and destroyed all the CO., +ho%1r af wit J We'll may 8 clergyman, writing to the pa- pers, exclaim that it is impossible to read such paragraphs without a blush of shame and thrill of horror. The British had de- manded of the Moresby and Solymon island CTS that they should give up the inhabitants who had murdered British subjects. The British never offered to hand over to the peo- pie of Moresby and Solymon the 'tlabor' traders who had kidnapped and killed for years the trusting and helpless islanders. But of course the case is not the same. When the British do few fellow creatures to death it is only killing, but when the said fellow creatures do Briton to death it Is murder. It is no subject for wonder, I repeat, that the good inhabitants of the South Sea islands should fail to understand the gospel taught to them in this manner, and that they should not think much of Christian missionaries who are apparently so unsuccessful at home.
 The real pretender in France is not the Comte de Paris or Prince Victor Napoleon, not the Due d'Aumale or Prince Jerome; the real pretendsr is the Parisian workman. If you speak to him of "the people" it is he and he alone whom he supposes you mean. The millions of peasants, laborers and other rural toilers he totally ignores. He is the "peuple souverain." The year 1769 saw a great political revolution, the year 1889 will see great social revolution. The Parisian workman is not satisfied with the old cry: ssWhat is the capitalist Everything. What ought he to be? Nothing" His new cry is: ssWhat is the workman? Nothing. What ought he to be? Everything" A member of the commission appointed by the late French Parliament to inquire into the Paris workman's life asked one of them to get up the budget of his family expenses. After describing minutely all the necessaries the workman put down: "For music halls, the aters, distractions, two hundred francs. " And on the member of Parliament suggest ing that the last item might be reduced the workman indignantly retorted: ''Do you think we are going to live like brutesp The present House of Deputies is all occupied with the question of employers and employed granting one by one all the demands of the latter. Nobody seems to be concerned about the rural population. How is that2 Simply because the peasants do not hold meetings, do not speak of erecting barricades and are quiet, peaceful, industrious, sober and law abiding people. The peasant has the sun and if his harvest is destroyed by the frost, the hail or the drought it is for him to make l the best of it, whilst the Paris workman goes to the music hall, smokes cigars, talks poll tics and does as little work as he can. Ii things are allowed to go on in this way much l longer shall think that MT. Gladstone WAS l right when he said: f'This century will be | called one day the workman's century"
 The exciting case of Belt vs. Lawes, which | was tried in 1883, is still fresh in the mind l of everyone. MT. Richard Belt, who has long been known as sculptor, was able the1 | to vindicate his artistic character agains 1 charges which involved insinuat1ons of fraud and to obtain five thousand pounds damages l although commission, of which Sir Freder ! ick Leighton and MT. Alma Tadema wer, 1 members, had considered that MT. Belts exc cution of bust in court fell far short of tn, workmanship evinced in other busts he haG put his name to, and which MT. Lawes de clared were not his at all. This case hat been watched with great interest by the Eng fish people. The latest Belt case, which wa 1 tried last Tuesday, was watched with per haps still more interest. It seemed such monstrous thing to suppose that an artis 1 and gentleman could be guilty of swim