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Show DAXGEKOCS SYMPIOMS. Coming so eoun after tho mutinous mutin-ous outbreak of the Grenadier Guards, the seizure of a boat by and the abrupt desertion ol over a score of British tars, at Rhode I stand. Is a significant incident. One is prepared pre-pared for the outcroppings of mutinous mutin-ous disaffection and disobedience to orders among the military and in the apology for a navy of our own country, but such exhibitions In the forces of an old and powerful monarchy mon-archy like Oreat Britain are decld-edly decld-edly tlrlking. They are, together with many other manifestations In the same direction, indications that a general relaxation of authority and defiance cf ifj control are In-creasing In-creasing throughout lib world. If this tendency contlnnss and gathers strength as It rolls, armies will be In danger of degenerating into mobs, and navies will, so far as their sphere will admit, follow suit. This will be a dangerous condition lu combination with tirs growing elements which are Working toward social and rsollttal discrginlzation, csihcas'j of Jopular uprisings the powers that be would be without a reliable means of suppressing them. The facilities for wiping out revolts have given monarehlcs an appearance, appear-ance, as a rule, of greater stability than republic:. Tta-thcseawayand the hitter frould be blown like chaff belTolc the wind of popular fury. |