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Show OLD WORD "TORY" BACK ONCE MORE; LONG IN DISUSE "Tory" persists like a word that answers a human need. Four times in four centuries it has lapsed from usage only to be revived. From Ireland Ire-land it crossed to Scotland, migrated to England, voyaged to America to have a part in opposing the revolt of the colonies, vanished with the withdrawal with-drawal or deportation of Tories and the end of royalism. "All the people were now Whigs." In this country the term Tory remained simply as history. Not till the advent of the New Deal and NRA did it reappear in political discussion. -Much of past struggle is wrapped up in the name "Tory." Originally old Irish (torindlie), it referred to the hunted outlaws of the bogs. Elizabethans applied It to the dispossessed dis-possessed natives in Ireland who harassed the English settlers on seized lands. Transferred to England, Eng-land, it was derisively applied by the Roundheads to the Cavaliers, who nicknamed their opponents Wbigs. In America a redivision of parties occurred at the Constitutional convention. con-vention. The most constant difference differ-ence was between those who wished a "national" government as against a "confederate" government, those who thought power should be derived from the stales as such, and those who Insisted it must come from the people. The first Whig party was formed in lS-l-l from a fusion of National Na-tional Republicans and others to oppose op-pose the Democrats. New York Times. |
