POLITICAL TENDENCY OF THE TIMES A HIGH brazilian authority asserts that monarchy for that country is now out of the question the situation has simmered down to his tl e republic or anarchy there is a fair prospect for a mixture of both with the chaotic condition predominating the popular form has been so suddenly precipitated upon the brazilians Brazi lians that their sovereignty is likely to cause intoxication leading to license instead of liberty the lack of education in the principles of free civil government is against a steady condition of public affairs there will also be an abundant crop of the line of would be publicists who endeavor to hide self seeking under the guise of patriotism people who belong to that class are troublesome customers because they cater to the prejudices of the muses masses thus gaining their ears and influence we may hear bear of some lively doings in brazil in a few days the tendency toward popularization of governmental rule Is ia phenomenal A short time since the home rule forces within the radius of the british empire appeared to be mainly centered in and toward ireland the same genius has lately been sp spreading reiding with marked rapidity in scotland and wales and systems for the application of the principle of local government in those two divisions of the united kingdom have been devised and perfected and now india is stepping to the front with a similar proposition take these indications together with the growing sentiment in favor of the establishment of a british republic and one is led to exclaim surely the world grows apace 11 the belief that victoria will be the last british sovereign is gradually crysta lizi ng i nto into a coin conviction vi ebion all these are symptoms not only that mankind generally are yearning after freedom but that the masses are gradually beginning to understand their power by degrees they are learning that despots and aad rulers of every kind are powerless in their hands the great danger to be feared in this king smashing development of the times is that expressed in the words of the brazilian official republicanism or anarchy will the extreme phases of the popularization lariza tion tendency of the age lead to the latter if so there are breakers ahead on this little world on which we are sojourners sojo umers however the present yearnings after free dom are but a prophecy of ef a future better and grander condition when a knowledge of correct principles of government will be universal while a disposition to conform to them will be an outgrowth of this understanding and voluntary consent a natural result but before that glorious epoch of knowledge and right is reached the dark shadow and clash of the valley of anarchy will have to be traversed and the heights of the mountains of truth be climbed on the other side but so sure as truth existe so certain will this creation after its probationary course has been run wheel into line with the governing principle of the moral universe of the almighty justice while the world at large is panting and struggling after free freedom freedolph dolp and while concessions in the line of popular rule are betag being made an anomaly is presented in utah within the confines con fines of the freest system of government on earth the majority of the people of this fair territory have for years been struggling to retain a few ragged fragments of home rule left to the people while a gang of active and unscrupulous politicians have been engaged in tearing the remnants of popular sovereignty from the han hands ds of th the e manses these enemies of human rights have invoked plead for and demanded the aid of the general government in the furtherance of their schemes worst of all because of misinformation and undue pressure the assistance thus solicited has been to some extent accorded and still the plotters shout for more they are at ou aute oute ts w with I 1 th the march of human eve events ants a and D d are enemies of popular freedom which means the right of the people to transact their public business 4 through agencies of their own t ton on