Show BRAZIL AND HER CROWNED MIES RIES the tito news on the brazilian question f is growing sensational again the probabilities are that there is is more or less ol 01 bluster and buncombe buu tomba at the back of it it would be a strange tiling thing for such a revolution as our southern neighbor liaa has undertaken to be completed and find llie life dogs of sensation not get in more or lesa leso of their nork ork but giving due duo allowance for all such therease there ther eare are yet strong indications of an inter Interi pat onal undercurrent that may before perfect calm is restored become alarmingly visible the royal circles ol 01 europe never before received such a shaking up as a has been administered by ly brazil they are not prepared for such an innovation upon their theories of divine appointment there is not a monarch in europe that did not with the beet best of reasons read with a deep regret and anxiety fur for his own safety the news of dona dom pedros abdication the moral results of the revolution of 1770 will not nut buffer comparison with those that are now agitating lii en rope through the changes in south souti america republican rule maa waa then an experiment in every sense of the term when england acknowledged the independence of the colonies eho she did so aider the implicit belief chatin that in a few years they would be in euch such a bedlam am of disorder and anarchy that anything in the life semblance of government would bo be a relief to tho the situation for thirty years that government dour nourished tile trie foolish expectation that disruption would drive tho the united states back into its sovereignty or at least into an allied monarchy even since the war of tho tile Ite rebellion bellion we have had bad our amusement out of that lingering delusion not more than two presidential elections have passed ty since onto on of En glands greatest grea teel phil f olto pheril caine over to tell us bat that our government waa was an experiment that written ritten constitutions were a snare and that we would have to go backward sooner or later and take a new start before we co id make any euh sub advance so far as we know I 1 air alt herbert spencer will pocket the jame fame of the last man in ili all tine to doubt the stability of the united states govern government 1 in view of the fact that republican government ie Is no longer looked upon as aa an unsolved problem tile last lingering hope bolls of a dissolution of llin he unon un on having vanished from the royal mind the ditre difference rence bets between eon the two anit american revolutions that of 1770 and that of 1889 can be seen at once tile monarchical spirit iu in europe is I 1 BO so feeble that it ie is impossible tor for a crow crowney nel nei sovereign to klow absolutely who ia is loyal and who ia Is not and none are better aware of thin this condition than hie tile kings themselves what ia Is the tile condition condit fon of england the freest government in europe I 1 it t is a democracy in ill til alie e last stapo stage of incubation france is beyond further huep question spain had fad there been any integrity in her lower classes would have followed brazil into democracy months ago lor portugal is only a degree removed from what political strength she has is democratic switzerland is a solid republic austria I 1 is e in a dilemma as she has been for seventy five years willing to follow the crowd as fast as she can italy is still struggling with itom Kni aniam and will be foursome for some years in the future germany is passing through or into the worst political COMM commotion fotion she ever experienced in time of peace by a great many degrees how ilow the struggle will terminate no body hotly can know the boy emperor lias has set a trap for simpletons simple tons and it has sprung on himself with a grip so mighty that it may down him and bismarck together before a compromise comp romiEe point is reached the have bavo practically stormed the government batteries and find sh shaw PW every inclination to take all t they hey can get their bands on the czar is still monarch absolute of his ilia realm but the thought of an entire army under the standard dofan of an emperor at a given signal raising aloft the emblem of a republic as did thell abe brazilian ra army gave the mightiest despot on earth a fit of the political ague such as lie never before dreamed of lie is now under a bombardment of paper bulle bullets tg that is apparently sinking deeper into bis his despotic soul than could have done all the bombs of europe combined against him he ile is renovating renova ting his ilia r realm aim but bitt liia ilia kingdom is a powder house whose destiny is in the hands of the fates these are the nations dispatches declare are working up a secret combination against brazil developments will be watched with some interest |