The Portland daily press., 1871-09-21
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1911


Va ,oaidans of America Alexis, son OF
the monach whom countless mllllons, lroi'
tbe Rattle ON the North and the Euxine Oh
The South to the Okhotosk and wild kam'
cha ka on the East, own as sovereign ioi1 ''
ling, is coming Toadies all, mefopv"'
and proyncial.-ye who ''dearly love io'''
- prepose YOU to greet in the gutteiai accehts
of his native land, him who one Gay VIII pe
Czar Of all the Russias! He is coming-he
has actually started! he come to Portland
we will show him that we can not only hold
hich reyelry over defunct Peabody, and bow
the knee to the debauched and drunken heir
of EnelaAds purple, but can make our supple
genufectiors with easy grace to him who is
about to inherit as wide an empire and far
more absolute empire than the littlesouled
Wales. Let us all prepare to hurrah, TO
crowd, to rush, to push, to gaze, to take note
of all his attendants, to familiarize ourselves
with his wardrobe. to observe his august per-
son, to wonder al the glitter of his teeth, the
-stateliness of his form, the courteousnesS OF
his manner and the elegance of bis DRESS
Let democracy forget itself, and indulge IN
tpdIOAySHS vi Enthusiasm WV " JNS "
who has been so good as TO be born the sec
'ond son of great monach, and whose elder
brother has been so good as to die. His worm
is something tremendous, though he has done
nothing in the arts, in letters, in war or in
craftsmanship. He has an annual income
large enough to pay the expenses of our en-
tire House of Representatives, but most of our
"selectmen" have a larger and more active
brain. He has written nothing, invented
nothing, done nothing, but he is a prince
Let our plain republican danes bring out
their poor fnery and prepare their tawdry
maanifcence for his reception.
All these things we did for that depraved
idiot, Wales; and Immediately thereafter it was
the pleasure OF his royal mothers government
and the noble supporters ofhis royal mothers
throne to join our Rebels in serious attempt
to overthrow this Republic.
Russia now supports more absolute gov
eminent than any other civilized country on
the face of the globe. It's rulers have always
been friendly to those of the United States
SO have those of Turkey. In both cases the
friendliness is purely accidental. Distance
prevents any possible antagonism of interest
and the outward form of friendship is pre-
served in spite of the fact that whole HEAVIER
separates the "congenial" powers in respec
to their government, customs, laws and re
ligion. Moreover, jealousy of England ant
. the Western continental poweIs is sufficient
to account for the desire of both to concliate
d the chief of the American commonwealth
Russia, the power that led in the partition o.
Poland, that has absorbed Circassia, that is
. even now pushing its Asiatic conquests al
most to the Goors of British India, was our
friend during the war. 1t received Farragut
with distinguished consideration, and paid
! all the necessary honors to the lamentet
Burlingame. Why should it not? Turkey would
have done the same. But Russia is to-da
the power which more than any other stand
in the way of the universal republic. TIL
prince who is coming to us may justly cair
all the honors due to the representative of
friendly power, but to none of those popula
demonstrations that belong exclusively t
friends of the people and of human kind