England to be a Republic

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 87, 2 January 1886, Page 3

England to be a Republic

Mr Andrew Carnegie, whose munificent -public benefactions both in Scotland and America are well known, wrote te the Egan branch of the Irish League o! Pitsburg declining an invitation to lecture. He concludes his letter as follows : — " You are Republicans like myself, and may answer that you scorn to accept the doctrine that any man was born to a political privilege which is not your birthright. Brutus-like you would brook 'the eternal devil to keep his state as easily as a king.' There is much in this. Ido not deny its power over my own mind. Unt the end of the British monarchy is fast approaching. Even at present it ia a mere farce- It is no longer a dangerous institution. It is only a silly one, and we can afford to smile for a time at a monarch whose only prerogative is to vet the fashions. The vital fact is that the n few years are to see not only local P vhament for Ireland, but for Scotland, "Wales, and England also. I would urge my fellow-countrymen of Irish birth to endeavor to forget the cruel •wrongs of the past, for which a small privileged class, and not the British people, are responsible, and turn tjieir L thou»hts to the new union which I: see W • conifng -—the British Republic, composed «f three stars, not the least brilliant of these the Emerald Isle."