, 1876-11-12
MONARCHY In AMERICA.
A Very Funny Article from a Lead
ing French journal.
It 1magines that the People Of the
United States Desire q
Monarchy.

United States Desire a
Monarchy.
And Gives Chicago Credit for the Origi-
nation Of the Movement.
Chicago Tribune
WANTED: AN EMPEROR!
Not Of France, which is too happy and too
proud Of being Republic to dream OF putting
itself under Monarchy.
But who would have believed it?-in the
United States, where radicalism and decompo-
sition are making 30 much progress that many
impartial and practical men ask II, financially
aud socially, it would not be advantageous to
modify the political institutions Of the country,
aud to change the Executive Chair, so movable
and precarious, intoa
THRONE, SOLID AND DuRABLE4
Already, when the Emperor Of Brazil visited
the Exposition at Philadelphia, the sight Of the
crowned head, whose vast Empire rejoices in
profound peace, had inspired serious refec-
tions in the minds Of the mos t sensible
among the Yankees. 'tHappy Braziliaus:"
they cried, with envy. f'With their institu-
tious they are ever the most tranquil Of the two
Americas; their sovereign can absent himself,
and they do not suffer from his distance; they
are secure OF tomorrow, and OF an indefinite
succession Of to-morrows; while we, delivered to
periodic commissions, which each four years
torture our country from one end to tue other,
feel, each day more and more, our Democracy
dragged, by fatal logic and by its own weight,
towards the lower regions, where numbers
dominate, and where the appetites rule!''
Since then this impression has only increased,
and does not scruple to show itself in full day
light. We have already quoted the character
lstic language OF an eminent p.tb|iciste,
MONS. MoNcURE CONWAY,
proclaiming that g He would see with satisfac~
tion the substitution for the Presidential Office
so greedily coveted and sought, nominal Roy
atty, analogous to-that Of Great Britain, and Of
which the heir would consent to be only tra-
ditional aud historic SYMBOL The author adds
also these words, so piquant and significant In
the mouth Of Democratic American. "1'hc
Civil List OF King may be bnrdensome, but 1t
is paid simply in money; while the election OF a
President costs not only equally IN material
wealth, but more in the honor anu reputation
OF representative NEIL"
Is it not curious to hear the Republicans Of
America crying for King, while re sec else
where Monarchists, having d Royal family to
their hand, setting themselves to work in the
creation Of Rcpublict
But this is not ALL It is well known that the
press, which has absolute liberty on the other
side Of the Atlantic, is the most faithful redec-
ton of the thoughts and aspirations Of the
public. Eh bie7a! there has been established in
Chicago-in
THAT GREAT AND RESTLESS CITY
Of 100000 or 800, Goo souls, whose activity, 50
truly American, has made Chicago one Of the
principal commercial. foci of the New World-a
journal which calls itself, without disguise, the
The programme Of this journal is not less
clear than the title. It explains its "platform' II
thus:
Modification of the suffrage; protection Of
capital; resistance to workmen's unions and to
the spirit Of Communism; finally, the snbstitu-
President-'
Thus the American good sense is preparing
to throw away all that wc are adopting, and is
all that we are uprooting! They
suffrage, Of workmen's coalitions, and Of Com
munism, Of wars against capital, Of Utopian
Socialists, and of the disastrous temporary ar
rangement, which they style the elective regime.
They hare seen the workings Of all these
noT t thew iouf for stabity 1r for the o1dsr
practices proven BY the nations the most tran
quill and the most prosperous. Having Repub
lie, they would willingly despol themselves Of
while others, who have had thousands Of wears
OF the grandeur OF Monarchy, and who would
have only to make gesture to re-establish 1t,
strive obstinately to sustain Republic and q
universal suffrage which is destroying them!
"Explan that il you can ~ as says Berthelio |
in one of the prettiest OF songs.
England has also some Democrats who re-
lieyc themselves, when occasions offer, Of de- |