The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-02-19


Modern progress in Europe indicates a
coming revolutionary storm--a contest be-
tween the remnants Of feudalism on the one
side and the growth of liberalism on the
of the different European Powers have nearly
all been created in the interests of retro
gradism. Whenever any great upward move
ment of the masses has taken place armies
have been marshalled, loans levied and all the
national force brought to bear for the purpose
Of crushing the movement and giving the
monarchical, aristocratic, feudal element a
longer lease of power. In Europe the people
pay taxes on debt created to crush them.
1t is quite the opposite in the United States.
We pay taxes on debt created in the in
terests and in the defence Of civilization.
The consequence naturally follows that in
Europe the people feel the taxes to be an in
supportable burden, while on this side the
water they are freely met as payment for the
privilege Of having our progress uninter
rupted. Europe is beginning to make this
comparison. The result is naturally very un-
favorable to monarchical institutions, and
consequently these Institutions are DESTROYS
by every possible method to force the public
mind along the WORKOUT feudal channel, with
the hope that some retrograde step in civiliza-
ton, some second ''middle age" period may
give opportunity to reform monarchical power
and extend to it another lease of life. For
this we see all Continental Europe
strained to the last sinew and pro-
gress bled of the last dollar to hold
great armies in the leash ready to be
launched forward in defence of boundary lines
which do not belong to the Geographic and
railway era of the nineteenth century, but to
the days Of old roads, old communications and
darkness ''Peace establishments, as they
are sarcastically called-in the aggregate some
five millions of men, splendidly equipped
stand facing each other to-day in Europe.
These men are paid by the governments to
support the governments but the people, the
masses which are struggling upward, are sus-
tanning all this tremendous load upon their
shoulders sustaining it for the simple reason
that boundary lines in Europe are too numer-
GUS and for the reason that no monarchical
movable thing, advancing or receding with the
civilization or the barbarism of the period, and
that unless country remains perfectly sta
tionary no system, be it monarc hical or
republican, can frame a constitutional code
which will fit the country during single
century.
Europe has well illustrated our arguments
within few years past, and without going
back to the earlier periods of her history we
may take the last ten years and trace some
thing of the results of the printing press, the
steam engine, the railroad and the telegraph.
These have made sad havoc with the little
and petty German principalities which, by the
very binding force of the times, have rubbed
out the dirty boundary lines that shut up
brains and blocked civilization. Italy, ham,
pered by the retrograde element, the clergy,
has bent to the modern forces and dragged
after it the chair of ST. Peter, despite it's occu-
pant Russia has bowed to the serf and, with
ever far-seeing craftsmanship, cemented the
Europe wonders why we sympathize 50 much
with Russia. She is territorially great, and
being thus she has the opportunity to become
all else that is great as rapidly as progress
can push her onward. There is an Unborn
American principle, the birth Of our Western
civilization, that we love vast boundary lines,
and we shall respect Europe in proportion as
we see narrow boundary lines disappear. We
want to see Europe, to the west and south of
Russia, under single government. Euro
pean Russia, in its population, its present
and future interests, belongs to Asia and now
moves in that direction. That our wishes will
be grati6ed we have no doubt, and quickly.
The times demonstrate it, and the five millions
Of troops feeding upon those whose interest it
IL TO disband them also show Il. When win
the struggle commence? Who will lead it, II
may be that Spain has started the fire, first for
the unity Of Latin Europe, and then for the
struggle Of the Latin against the banded Ger
man element The great cry Of France for
some years past has been the unity of the Latin
race. 1t was this cry that supported the Mex
lcan lnVaslOH WHICH r5suitcu III tiic utGLh Vi
Macmillan, and 1t is principle which all
Latin Europe feels to-day TO be its only hope.
The Mont Gents tunnel win leave the Alps
for the admiration Of tourists and will break
one boundary line and strike out one govern
ment. The railroad that links Paris with Ma
drid and Lisbon is wearing rapidly upon the
boundary line between France and Spain,
which threatens to disappear with two more
governments. Numerous telegraphs and rail-
roads are binding Germany together beyond
all power of future division. Secession Is as
impossible 10 the East as in the West, for it
means secession from the movement Of the
age. In the approaching European revou-
tionary war for the destruction Of boundary
lima Il Ia nerhans doubtful which of the two