The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-03

cases, to the faith and practice of their
own denomination. and it is plain that
English freedom is but modified despot-
ism at best, since the aristocracy of the
few own all the land and are mInistered TO
by the many.
England s commercial and agricultural
situation is far less promising for the
future than our own. Her veins have not
been recently drained of blood, nor her
wealth sucked dry of its substance by any
great civil war, like our own of 1876;
her commerce has not been disturbed by
the febrie agitation of vast currency OF
paper mixed with ductuating silver, and
yet Great Britain is a more miserable
country today, politically, commercially
and agriculturally than We are, because she
is slowly yielding under the enormous
drain on her national vitality incident to
her vicious form of government.
Seldom is the poor man in England able
to rise above his rank and win wealth and
distinction, not because the poor man is
not often in England what he is in Amer
lea. man of capacity. intelligence and
ambition, but because the entire structure
and atmosphere of society is against him
and always has been against him since the
Norman conquest. Even without the
pitiless pressure of the Irish thorn in her
flesh England's boosted constitutional
monarchy would be very sick man. She
will have to take the heroic remedies of
the reformers of the Labouchere radical
faith and practice or pass into state OF
political and pecuniary decay. She will
either be deserted by her labor in thou
sands, to the injury of her manufacturing
and agricultural consequence, or the peace
of the nation will be upset by constantly
recurring riots that may rise at last to the
dignity of revolution.
The United States is not perfect state
in It's administration but in its form there
are no such swelling seeds of decay or
destruction as can be discerned in the
English law of land tenure, which suffers
the rich and luxurious few to suck their
sustenance out of the toiling, mourning
millions of labor. The American sin
against labor was human slavery, and we
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justice, whom we Knocked, in shape of
terrible civil war that is yet recalled with
awe, and England will yet suffer for her
great crime against labor; she must
choose between retribution and repent
ance. whose sincerity is attested by reform.
These social and political abuses must
yield to the advancing spirit of civilization
or at no very distant day her aristocracy
Will have to fight for political life; and un-
til these reforms are accomplished let the
American dude-doctrinaire, the anglo
maniac and the pig-headed English tourist
be.equally silent about the superiority of
English to American institutions and form
of government, for there is sure death in
the clothes of the great constitutional
monarchy if she refuses to wash them at
the call of the working masses.
When the enactment of Home Rule clears
the political deck there will follow . far
more tremendous struggle between the
tory aristocracy and the working masses,
whose ballots henceforth will vex Great
Britain until the law of entail is extinct,
the state church disestablished and disen-
dowed, the game laws removed, and the
life of the House of Lords as hereditary
legislature ended.