Year: 1871

day how long the monarchical form Of govern
ment viii continue to exist in England. That
time b rapidly approaching when roy
ally shall be laid aside and the executive Of
tho nation be chosen BY the popular will
seems to be tacitly admitted by all. The only
question appears to be whether or not the
change shall be ellected in Ave, ten or twenty
years; and even the most moderate incline to
the opinion that the wave Of republicsatsm,


unless checked by some unforeseen esass' wiu


within twenty years completely saeaerss the


royal house Of England. Ofcourse sasre are
The tosdies, tho courtiess and an arbeoeratic
clsss who win not go the danger that
| threatens their loved institutions, and who
try 10 smother popular complains under the
ory OF demagoyuism, socialism, o. seme
otbsr appeal to the interest Of those who
have something TO oppose ths demands Of
those who have nothing. Pablo opiaiea -
expressed through the prsss, owing 70 ~ coa-
sttutioa Of society, b too often bat TIE opinion
Of . class, while the views Of the su1sEing
masses find only expression In the muttsriAss
Of discontented men. In England Shis Ii
especially the case, for the great body of the
people arc sunk in ignorance, and have be-
como 80 accustomed to suffer that they have
almost forgotten that the poor have Other
rights than to toll increasingly for the bsae6t
Of the rich. So long a. the mass Of EnGlsh-
men can procure bread and beer in su11cient
quantities to satisfy their animal wants they
trouble themselves very little about ths form
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to boast that England is the frsest sad bcst
governed country in the world, and knowing


no better, they believe with duh, stolid faith.


But within few years . light has broken on


the people, and there have not been wanting


bold men who declared that tho good govern
Turning to men whose faces were pale with


hunger, whose eyes were hollow with watch


ing, who toiled and sweated, but enjoyed not,


they asked the laboring millions. how docs


this model government affect you? Have you


not liberty to toll, freedom to starve2 You can


huddle together in the foetid dens of the oity,


or labor hopelessly in the mines for the


''tommy" master; bat what do you enjoy Of the


fruits produced by your sweat3 N, appeals


to the glorious constitution can battle with


the logic Of facts the people look round and


see their children pale and wan. They toll,


but their reward fails to supply bread, and
they ask themselves why It Is so. The rich


grow daily richer and more magnificent while
the unfortunates grow thinner and more


ragged. Hence republicanism gains force


day by day, and the red cap, which few
years ago was laughed at has grown to be q
danger. And why2 Because social revolu-
tions spring from discomfort, begot of misery,
and there never was . more fruitful field
turned by republican plough than modern
wealth the masses Of her people live in con-
dition of wretchedness unknown in other
lands, and though her statesmen see the dan
ger and are striving by concessions TO avert it.


events march 30 quickly that they may fail.
The lodger franchise is but the prelude to
universal suffrage, and this fact has forced the
attention of the governing classes to the edu-
cation Of the people. 1t might be better for
England that popular insitutions should come
thus gradually to the nation; bat will the
suffering masses have patiencep


That this thought is deeply agitating the
popular mind in England we have had evil
dence in the unexpected manner In which the
question was treated by the press when the
report of the dangerous illness of the Queen
threatened to bring them face to face with the
question of the future form Of government. 1t
is well known that the republicans do not
desire the death of the present Queen, but, on
the contrary, hope her reign may be prolonged
until they have sufficiently educated the
people to be able to declare the republic.
Nor can even those most devoted to the pre-
sent form Of government refuse to admit the
firm hold which democratic ideas are taking
on the masses. So noticeable has been the


increase of the popular agitation that the
English press, which represents the moneyed


interests of England only, has been engaged


gravely suggesting remedies by which the rise


Of the republican tide may be retarded, II not


prevented. Without accepting the esti-


mate Of the advance OF democratic senti-


ment made by the friends Of republi-


canism, 1t is impossible not to perceive


that the English people are gradually losing


their respect for royalty, and have already
| gone so far on the road of progress as to have


thought that they might be able to live with
| out king.


1t is dangerous thing for rotten institu-
tion when people 80 eminently practical as
the English begin to examine closely its


actual value. So much Of the ''respect that
doth hedge in . king" Is derived from the
superstitious traditions Of q dark age that
there Is danger to royalty when the cobwebs


Of time are rudely torn asunder by the force
OF modern ideas aud we have disclosed In all


its poor nakedness the vileness Of the thing
called king. And this is the real danger to
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