| Show POLITICS OF 3IAXV I XAT10XS Fall of The llrarlllan Empire The XonSiicms of Monarchy Iu America Etc AMERICAN Foiur Dec Htii 1SSO Special corresjioudciicc of the DisKitirr NinvsA rumor which comes from Vienna that centre of dubious reports to the effect that the Sultan has invited the Czar to visit Constantinople i I and throb the latter turn accepted the invitation has caused A flutter I among European diplomats The reports which have lately been sent I out from 8t Petersburg a to the Czar having taken no pains t conceal con-ceal Ills astonishment that the German Ger-man Kmpcror should rtay a visit to the Sultan were undoubtedly authentic au-thentic and represented accurately the Czars feeling When however how-ever it was learned that the Emperor Em-peror would g t Constantinople Constanti-nople despite the II > tIle amizincnt of the northern potentate It is probable that the Czar seeing j the necessity of oflVctting the Km J pcrors action and counteracting the influences of Ink conference with j the commander the faithful re1 solved t cur with the Sultan himself Under none of the existing exist-ing circumstances could he joy a gratuitous visit to the city whose inclusion within the Russian domain do-main he most covets as the guest of g the sovereign who capital he would invade but an invitation was the easiest thing possible to obtain The JI lan ambasKidor 10 I the Pore had only to intimate i in the most vague manner that i hIs impcrlnl master would be pleased 1 to nctf t the hospitality i I of his whilom enemy all the object ob-ject was accomplished The Sul I tan himself ole of the most finished iliplom t of the tme was equal to thin occasion antI forthwith there i I but a note couched ill tInt mot affectionate terms soliciting the honor of the Czars presence in the city of Mosques The time definite ly I fixed 1 for the visit la the early pert of next year an arrange meiit mol favorable to the Sultan Sul-tan as sullioicnt time will have iIajwtl for him to realize I l some i ot altl benefits which will un doubtedly ntliuh to him from the I visit of the Kaiser to inablo him to rank n date with thu Czar which I will lie 1 advantageuus to lioth Ilotli Emlrr and Czar have much t gain from certain voluntary concessions I con-cessions the on part of Turkey I which neither will permit the other I 10 ouiam ny lorce 01 anus while the Sultan has nolliin to lose in any event The semili < tetility of the r powers toward one another ariing i I I from to him their absolute jealousies security in I guarantct the pwi 5 than from which each ton frm ch would l > e I delighted t oust him It is evident i however that though tlie two emperors empe-rors will obtain from the Sultan I collections of great beucilt t their j 1 respective governments the wily j Mussulman will secure from each 1 r I assurances of lib freedom from 1 niolestatiou that will enable him to I devote more time to the negotia lions of loans and less I to lola f I I the state 4 I I The new law which the German I government has introduced into j i I Iarliatnent on thesuljectofsocial I I ism exciting much iliscu < joti in Germany ltias in ISiT 1 that the j tnt veto of cxcfptiutial was ci > jiowers W8 I nude i for the purpose of suppressing socialistic agitation tot they were I ole only for a period of two year I so thatlhc govermucnt has had lo come from time to timeaskiug their reneival Thu leI Ian if I pa es I is to tti l a icrmnticnt mcn ure A long npr is I rubmitted to Parlia larla melt lug with the new bill In i which thegovernmeut tarts forth the historyof Iho thesimiLirmeasureof the lust and declare that it does not comint Ideas or teacIiiKg but only violations of the public peace and I dangerous agitation inissia Has ouy HcsfVIXinnslaiH and lam i I I I bur approve the bill the other i states a largo majority give only I I I a conditional u assent To secure their end that i a permanent I I grant of lower the govirnmciit I i icsiiitit are willing to moUily I the i existing law in tome minor turtle 3 I i ulirs Fur examjile they I projiuse a S I committee on complaints l counoseu > magistrates before whom mahDll befor cases of I alleged abuse of the law can Ur bought Their conct siuus by no I 10 meaiissalisfy theopjosition Thena 1 tiunal liberals strongly olject to the bill lult prexetit > hijie They < le sir that the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction in cases of alleged abuse and to have an appeal I to that court net ns a stay on all protxtdin till the case is litard They also oppose the clause giving the JUern nient the rightof expulsiouof social ists It ran If rut Into elerathont nlrl II IJ rtsl whenever tie minor stato t of Mvgu Is declared In any city or province and the return of an expelled jwr i son can take place only with the j consent of the Jmlice authorities I This of course amounts banlsh i incut The law will prolably have J I to bescriously modifleJ lfofC It can i I pass UtiJcs the oi > > osHioii of the J socialistIc party it will encounter I I antagonists in all those whojuTOeive I bleat its stern provisions may be in voted sgalni thenif nos as well as I against tlieswialiiU In spite of the reiiresIve meamres I which the government has taken I from time to time socialism con i tinued tu spread in Hernia It looks very much as if Kinmrcks I attempts to suppress activcrocialiuu I I ou the otu hand and on the cither to bribe the worklns ilasMs by i a j j very mild form of Stale socialism were doomed to failure His state socialism I embodied in thin scheme which makes the state the insurer of the working men against accidents and of the tmtU landowner or peasant against disasters of certain kind and which guarantees the support of the orkln m In11 oo r n II In the 0 Ielrhatn o U1 theitforc i > one t between iliirerunt kinds of socialism i the state foeialiMu of liUmarck arid he radical socialim of the I socialistic party The tleciIon will ilepcnJ upon a body of men who stand between the two and adhere to neither yttvm they are the National Literal party of the Jtclclistag Nothing Iu Atitriaii politics Is i more noteworthy I than the rising sense of nationallly on tile hurt of the Czechtjof Bohemia The < Ions of the Bohemian Diet are continual ly 1 agitated i by the Intrusion of quest lions growing I therefromAt Its very opening the young Czech party which won Rich great iucccsies in the recent iIectlous came forward with a bold petition to the Kmpvror asking him to consent to be crowned as King of Bohemia at 1rague The leader of this party M Gregory took occasion on the moving of the address to make a long oration nettlmig forth the hoi > cs and alms of his followers He denounced the undue prominence given to fie I German element in the Austrian Kmplre and especially In Bohemia and declared that the young Czechs looked confidently forward to the restoration of tine ancient kingdom i of BohemIa with Its histori cal rights and privileges The oration made a gnat ImpressIon I I i but the whole matter was referred I Ito i I I-to a committee anti It is thought I 1 will not Iw rcjortcd upon at all but I i tie young Czechs Iiavu atcom plished their main purpose at pro I lent which Is to dlCLire their posh l then Shortly after came the inter pellatlon of the new governor of i Bohemia Count Thun on the sup prctelon of the Lesevereln read 5UP1 bo lug club of Czech students Those reading circles hail been suppressed at the time of their sending anaj I dress to the ttuclents of the Univcr shy of Paris ou the opening of the iiNOvellc Sorbonne Thc governor declared It to hove len an illegal inanlfestatkU which rieau tliat the addresB brratltcd too strongly of the spirit of independence and Czech nationality The whole I movement is already a significant L one s t The fall of the Brazilian Kmplre I is suggestIve from moiv rnts of r view Ire look at It fiuu this joint of view of tho humanitarian it presents pre-sents a striking contrail to most of the revolutions of tIme jail both In the old world and the new t > y the I abeunco of the cruel spirit of revenge re-venge If we look at It from thcpoiiit of view of the philosophical politl chart it reveals many unmistakable signs I of progress lrI isa moCcmtnt I rent a lower to a higher condition I of associated manhood manhood sHfrcllant and Selfgoverning as contrasted with manhood dependent and bllmllr stibmislve to IlOwer from without On tlii u nnd kindred poluta it w mH be easy toenlarge but that is not mv present purpofe My object is to call attention to the singular i uonHiccesaor ntlOIlaIViy Inn Amcrl ca It would seem as if there were souietliliig in the American atmosphere atmos-phere especially in modern times unfavorable to the monarchical sentiment sen-timent In olden times monarchy was congenial enough tu the soil Among the northern tribes chlef taiuship was common and there was a genuine loyalty ou the iamb of the dillcrent members of the tribe or nations toward their hereditary orelectedhead WhctithcSpaulards made their first great conquests they fuuud monarchy firmly istal lished I and fully recognised iu Mexico Mexi-co and Peru long years after the native American lost every vestige of lower in the land of his fathers the principle I still held sway for II North and South and East anti West the supreme authority was vested In men who represented royal authority and the divine right of king The new America wasSpanuil II or EnglMi or French or Portuguese and divine right 1 sanctioned for the most < irt by Iapal authority held swuy iu the new xvorM as Iu the old A new era was opened for America Ameri-ca when thu northern colonies broke the Krltlsh yoke Tint Ens liMi speaking coioniiS Whet they feciired their inJci ndence refused to crown the edifice by a social or Imperial figurehead Thin j > eopc had won their liberty had secured their Independence lUll the itople remained roxvrclgii Circumstances proved unfavorable to the French and French authority vanished from American soil Snnish Influence lingered in the South but when in the first quarter of the present century the struggle for liberty was carried on and finally crowned with sucicss U I was found that the taste for uibiiarchy was dead The Portuguese Por-tuguese establishment In Brazil was peculiar and circumstances have favored thins contlnmncc of monarchy i mon-archy ip tb the present time It was not however l > ccausc muii archy was in any special stay thor I to thin lirazlIiaiLS that thu lirazllian impire was > crmutii H long to continue lull IHRIIISCof a fiilln cf t n > pect for an individual man Thu I Ilrazilinii monarchy has fallen i diet In fact n natural death 1 Mid theru is but liUlu likeliliood of its I ever being revived It will only he I temporary and it will nerve little i I other jKirjwse to allow time fur I decent burial I Tiling might Irate been other 11 wise It would lie dillittilt I to prove i that J monarchy is n natural IniK > sI I bilily on American MI Vc know I what is but what might have been j had the list grand example I been j i J t lj O I dimrent we cannot tell A crown I was at one time a iwolhilitr Iu tire lt WI So emancipated Stales of thin North Had George Washington wihed Hand H-and had the men who were near and around him fivored it the I omrx of American hitory might i have been dimlent Happily tine I cn > wn had no attractions and the example which waste was decisive I I When the S > aiiili IVlr was broken uj I men liad long I been ac I custorned to look at thin northern i star and thcilemand fur re > ubllcan I I im was general It was not merely i to get rid of the Spanish yoke it I was to give to the SluttIshn Stoles of I blur South ri4ibllran lustltutloiis 1 that Bollvnr and men like Bolivar i fought It was a light of tin 01 1 I i nary dlHiciiIty It ha < long been known that the entlru strength of I the Holy Alliance was jilwJged to I the restoration of order In the anUIiAmericaii I Slates the cre orion of small kingdoms amid the pLicingon thuthronrsof tliise king I doms Kuroi > eaii plincelings Had j nJlei 11 1ilIali t 1il thin 1 cxvrimcnt lievn H > sibc > H might have failed But Impplly it I was not posible ir rather it was I rendered iiin > > ibli Tin votes I I i and the cxamplu of the UnlteU States tiers against It amid the I I I circumstances 1 of KiigLind ttl controlled con-trolled at the limeby an able and i courageous minister jolt her vast I inlluciicc on thin side of right and I liberty James Monroe and George S i IU SG I Canning proved themselves I to f 5 I mightier forces than the holy alll ante comjiOMtl 1 of kings aud cui I pcrors America Im during this ellI itury ell-I witnresud the birth and death I of throe monarchical esitriiucnts two In Mexico and OliO in Brazil I I in May 1S ± I Don Atigustin du Turbid after successfully heading j the first ri llIJ azaiust spanish authority au-thority in Mexico ascended 1 thin I throne as Augustlu I hut the ex criinent proved a failure and hewn he-wn coinielled to abdicate March I 20 1851 Matimilian of Awtrb arrived in Mexico and axsumeil 1 I I imperial authority in 1S3I I In ISGT I hu was captured triiJ by COUrt I martial and that nnd his empire lierisrhed w Ith him The Empire of Itrazil trot litvn iu cxiIoiitu slnco I lSt It was n government of thin I I l tilus own choice But time hns I I worked againit the monarchical sentiments and we have now seen I Its end tho end wu are willing I to believe of tire List American monarchy mon-archy Thu event Is ini > ortant not iu tile history of America only but of thu world It is ni iniiiifi baIlout in a very emphatic form of t rInllil l h1 rI the modern spirit isIs is-Is assertingitself rcason li gaiuing the uiatcry and tIne day is not distant dis-tant when thrones and crowns will bu remembered 1 as baubles of tInt 11ll arid seen only in antirjuarian musxum s where they wllll lookid I I I upon as strange and mysterious relicsofa defunct supurstltion nit KB ISAACSJX I |
