Show DOWNFALL OF DYNASTIES in great portions of the history of the earth it has been the rule for a certain empire to be mistress of the known world and a certain city its capital aether bether it be babylon athens or rome romer alter after crushing nations and shedding blood like water it has been the rule to take the cream of their substance and waste it on royalty aris aristocracy to cracy and armies the old enin empires breo now n ow fallen have borne within them the seeds of their own dissolution BO so it is today to day with the old monarchies of europe ever on the alert altri to make a break for territorial aggrandizement to wreak vengeance on a neighbor or to fain gain the glittering soap bubbles of military glory the nations of europe have frequently let loose the doga of war to glut on od the th e blood and substance sub of the unfortunate what does it matter to england today to day if the poor egyptian C laborer ia is no better off than the slaves who built the pyramids provided the interest on loans the sustenance of rulers and ain armie pay sand all the taxes they can bear are wrung out of them therb what cares the great viceroy oi of india the princely english merchants or the government itself for the welfare of the dark skinned Hin doos f k millions millio na of whom own nothing but 6 the breech clouts clonts that cover their loins joins if only the wealth of the orient poura pours into london as it if formerly did into rome how much better does france feel towards the algerians Alge rians and tonquin ese desei and band how much worse did not the now fallen spain do in mexico and peru what interest does the czar cfall the rus dussias bias take in the welfare of hia his approved oppressed subjects and what horrible bar rarities bari ties equaling the pains of pandora I 1 has his he not and does he not inflict on the thousands of poor wretches he has bis exiled to siberia to pray for death in the depth of dark mines his royalty his army and his tools af pf 0 of torture in die th e shape of governors secret police tax collectors convict wardens jailers jailors jai lors and a host of others must be sustained and if it grinds the tiller of the file soil the mechanic and ond the property owners to the dust what carea cares the czar the european Europ Vau nations must have their periodical costly and destructive wars cand and war is now ten times more costly than it ever was adding every time to a national debt that is already unbearable and the interest of which must come out of the sweat of the sons of toil with the present state of education prid diff lusion of knowledge the examples amples 9 of 0 prosperous republics lies whose sole aim is the benefit of the people the existence of dangerous secret societies the appliances of modern sciences and the general tendency of the world to reach a higher and ana nobler piano plano by having baying for its main object the amelioration of the condition of mankind all these in a boico of di thunder under I 1 the inevitable destruction of ta the tottering rotten monarchies of europe |