| Show THE republican SPIRIT IN ENGLAND whatever rosy le ie the deture of 1 france fance it is certain that republic can principles are folit fast taking root ID england and that british statesmen are re scarcely behind american sia statesmen in their conceptions anil and sim inn toward stoward a perfectly constitutional government this thia ten tendency deney 0 of f graat britain to emulate I 1 tile tho united stat ei ors or amoro moro itric strict lly if tore to revive vivo the principles and genius odthe of the I 1 coin Commonweal this 18 often tile the sub eject jentof of editorial enthusiasm with our wet well I 1 understood ante american r can thi I 1 ragland og lanil again iala a commonwealth una allied to th a Ameri american caw republic aud and there would soon be not only the united states OfA metca but idso also tile alio united states of europe indeed the whole I 1 world worl a would in time be conquered by our anglo saxon civilize civi liza tion and become s a galaxy of republics the such mc ish men t of franco france as a re j I 1 bublie would of course hasten thi but como it must ilk in aej any C case cje for it seems to hato bato been tho the magnificent Magni ficen f destiny of the anglo saxon nations from the days dagg of alred alfred t the be great to travel towards pure constitutional govern government menO living inan age when a cent centuria cen progress teems seems crowded into the coulbo of a brief decade wo we scarcely realize how faist england is is traveling towards a commonwealth until borne example dimple brings us ua almost fam I 1 aco to face with the i jue Eli england giand has not only her aspirants for the character of oliver cromwell euch Us charles Bradlau bradlaugh gb but republican i atac 11 uch such as ai sir charles dilke dahte and ii a primo minister whose very career to i at prophecy of the speedy f a democratic six slate te the last dumber cumber of the now york ioupe independent blames bright and glud stone together and af liLos that the be latter at in his administration is filling tile character and parts of the former in in an editorial on tho the real revola tion lion in eo england gland the In independent depend ent observes somebody liss hu said MM wo we forgot forget who that no mm man become a reformer after forty mr gladstone alt assuredly is 1 one ol of i i tho the which abich prow prove tho the truth ot of tho the role if 1 it bo be truo true if lie he could have boan be told orly forty years ago when la ho ant came into tho the hoare of commons re aa a tory what things bo be would ta be let to do aur after he was u sixty ho he would bar exclaimed ij id thy tant krent a dog that lo ho should do grot abo diu of tho the irish church bouschor bou schol I 1 suffrage and the toto roto by ballot not to mention slighter lighter matt mattaro cro would hero looked to lum in 1833 1832 aa dreadful beado lud lod an llo blo for him in ID help to come coma to pass an the of the HOUM of lorda or of the chrono itself and in the piety lifto year of liu bid ap and tho the eighth Elith cl longer of tui bid public life ceila Ct ila davit mas leaders batrum la trum lit he to 11 shout to propose c bedgoo in english me which might mika make lord lidon I lilon turn urn to hu his collin coffia and the duke of benin to n Ts to lat laj his hii moldering molden ng hind hand on his hii award tiro 0 me of his bla ministry have announced tho the intention of tho the government to propose at lb the noil next mission of to put tho the transfer of cf real nl estate an nearly as comblo on the same mno footing an that of persons i ml and worse orm than thu to repel tho claw lir oi of primogeniture and nd to leave land to tho the 0 opar ah r often of tho the pheral laws lawi for tile tho of 0 property in buo cuo of intestacy thus mr Olad Glac jlou istona Lin u tho the champion for whom ia r reserved the accomplishment of tho the which mr bright Dright bogn bc an iu in ISM ud and tor for doing which the london times accused him of posing to seize MI the landa of tho the rich sod and Em imposing lt illing them lucia among th tho poor q and ad lidwill bo will a aljo bo tho man Z cobden an baw in vision when bhea ho he that thoy they W who he abound rid tho the boil of a tho fettie ra which w hindered lan dered its ita rot chase and akao liko ilk 0 any other value talao would BJ great benefactors to england an aa they who had bad given her tho the blessing of frock wo vo aro are proud to say aay that the Indo pendon foretold fon told tu all but ton ten years ago that mr would live to ac soo this work ho lie had beann n me ac a troph 0 aluch 1 u chro ch 0 jag hot lit an antime untimely death ca on nud hinder e r from btag in g ut od and yet mr gladstone las li neither lone dono nor dor designs to do more thin than sir robert bobert peel his great ID master aster planned and executed himself Im imag aginor mo then the conservative peel today to day hid bad he lived to be the very tery embodiment of the principles principle of john bright and still as he was th the 0 soundest bead of english statesmen es and we nay inay have a pretty clear of how near great britain is is to a commonwealth I 1 |
