The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
PAW PAW W. MICH FRIDAY Y JUL Y %, 1878

nation should be above the sycophancy Of the
individual time-server and while teaching
other nations with the honesty and cordiality
of the generous mans intercourse with his
fellows. should not descend to any act that
would be considered slayish If performed by
the chlvalrous citizen within her borders But
what better than fawning fiattery has been the
conduct of Europe in receiving this royal
heather. when stripped OF its glitter and de-
pnved of It's martial hump Has civilization
been true to herself in this contact with bar
barlsm? Did the applauding multtudes not
know that they were cheering the worst enemy
of freedom, and the greatest despot, in all the
world. the embodiment OF all that degrades
humanity?
When civilized travellers in Persia and other
Asiatc countries are granted audiences WITH
resident nabobs, they are first carefully IN
structed how to conduct themselves IN the
presence of their auditors and their manners
must strictly conform to the established usage
in those countries. Might it not have been
we'll then to have taught this pagan grandee
the only lesson of civilized hfe that he may
ever have opportunity to learn? Or il the
articles Of hls creed are so unbending and the
penalty of violating them so great, could not
the world have endured, il he had staid at home
and not taken a rest from his work Of chopplng
off heads? We are not informed whether he
beheaded dozen servants while on his pleasure
trip, or whether the train stopped over some
river to allow his mlnions to drop therein q
sack containing the body OF wife or two, but
almost every other little pastime OF his was
enjoyed without molestation. IL he chose TO
insult the ladies of the royal families OF Aus
tria and Germany, it was all right, and even
the boasted free soil" OF England was not
good enough for INN to walk upon, but had to
be carpeted for his kingly foot Paris. groaning
under the German load, mourned that the
stress OF the times had compelled her to sell
the royal equipages and other pageantry, go
that che was unable to receive him with the
old-time Napoleonic spendor.
1t may be that after all these disgracefu
performances have ended, and the people see
what fools they bave been, some little good
will result Certainly the republican element
OF the English people will not be weakened by
these things. and their influence may not be
lost IN France and Spain. Royalty is royalty
whether in civilized or heathen lands. and ex
lists only by opposing the intests of the masses
and living on the to-won substance Of the com
mon people who compose the multitude of the
population OF the countries wherein it flour
ishes. Notwithstanding this fact, the common
class is ever ready to send up its cap, and ex
haust its lungs whenever some goggle-eyet
lord happens to sneeze, and is slow to learI
that dignity and nobility Of individual charac
ter which alone can make a nation great. Tn
nation will not reform the individual. Tn
individual must shape the national character
and until the people, the intelligent people, il
the majesty OF their numbers, stand indivldu
ally firm for consistent, noble living, We ma.
expect to see funkeyism IN high places, ant
to hear tie car of tyrrany rattle on. ~