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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 64, 21 December 1878, Page 2

A safety-valve is of as much importance in matters political as in nutters physical. An autocrat o: course has no faith in it ; hj : placi ■ trusi in iiii - - alone, and in cousC|uence he not .-.el-lum comes to grid'. What is tru ■of an indie -| c,l> | j;: , .:.,, i, . ~ (l Si ",-, And there is'no one, wh - has iu any wax mastered the del ,i!s of S ./mlisiii and Nihilism, bu! '-.:: iul bol i the diseases might hav. b :i uipp ■■! ;:i i i bud ,::,! have b a til -. .' ... c.l.vd, llstead of being fiirthe ' I. lia I the .Slate phy lieians u . re.no • of a sal'Jty-valve. I■ ,- :io u,.- i' blame th"> Soveivi; ;.- of he two cou'itrii - a"'-, led to, or to I ild tln'in i.'-t m--il le f :■ the | lew nt state ef things. 1' I'huper ir of '. I. riu inv l.ai :■■■■■ in '. ' his native land, has .!■-.■ ,ted hj ihj life to tho advai-- iu at of his c ... i; . the Emperor of liu.-.-ia free I his ?"ii . and that was no slight task to ace mplish iu the face of the opposition xvhich it created. It is not xvitti individuals but with systems that uur quarrel is. t'ur argument is that a safety-valvo is as absolutely necessary for the existence of a State as for that of a steam-engine. In another column will bo found the measures adopted for the suppression of Socialism and .Nihilism ; sooner or later the gas generated by years of oppression will oxplode, and may-be the vessel of State will sillier shipwnt'k. Jt is not for us, as Englishmen, to be

vain-glorious in the matter. .Many men, still alive, remember Chartism in full swing, and have seen the' prisons of fcjugland tenanted by men lodged there for no greater crime than giving the rein to their tongue in political affairs. Of hit'' years, too, l'Vninnisin has been rampant; it also was put down with a Btein hand when it broke into open rebellion. But never iu England did the dismal horror of an organised system of domiciliary police supervision exist, and never therefore did the masses of the people learn to hate and distrust their own officials. < lue i great reason fur England's comparative immunity from internal political troubles was the' development of her ■ This acted as a valve for the escape of surplus political exoiteuiont .". il n dozen years ago Mr. D'Arcy MeOee was shot dead in I land li for hi- del tion hie Queen and • ountry. VVai bis life h.i i in dim .' was ife i lon • as lie re public!} denouncing the I traitors, ho | ei .-'• d in i li to be his duty. .\ el yet, y i • i ■ Im had lied from Ireland uu uutU.v, ul

polities] erimio ' vithafcm upon ! 'u bead And in Victoi i at I ,j. _• ■ pre ides overth . o ■•• . .:■ Hon :Pa lia> moot, «hj i left I . ni~ heart and enmity in his hi da lb- '.. inoure i by Her M ; : - sty with t>. high -i .mk in tin I be is a nieml >r, and , pi -' ihly no motJO devoted liv. -,. i > i I we i lorot the lab So • tary of State for the < his opinii . it )i\ all ; he ?ives public leol . . in ; • ts slip i!,, chain - of li no neing in >nartituti ms. N . ■ the moi are he and his famth ; ■ Ltu < liicial • ision. We are not advocating license. There is a gn>at country, whi ■■ ■ :-. ■ ik license aud not liberty prevails when at anyrati liberty is somewhat curtailed by licet 0". th rary, beliui lai ;i . i, in , iiy thr i - i the p issessi n of i\ . , g .ill • - cepvi ...... [.Jul iii ml ol p ilitii .i. .. low .' • V. Pill i . B . .i : : : a '..i':i re- ; ■• ■ ' ■ ir.-e ;'■ r the autho- . to pursue. ■ ■• i ■ ; : ud proprietors of in-ws] |»ers free fr mi ipiol, the ■ ..;. iof tins i rown ":. n0 of Uermany coming totuethroni w mid not. we fancy, hi diminishe 1. And wa - riaal iished as a Stai.- instituti m, and converte 1 into ii fie ii iloi y for any wh i iii. •■' thai i tyle of climate a crown, we think, would sit more tirinlv on an Imperial head. Auto-

tracy can lluurish only in a congenial soil. In Havti or Eolivia such might b" found. Tho soil of modern Europe and the climate of tho nineteenth century are, we bur, both against it. The spirit of the age demands a safety-valve.