The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-05-31
REVOLUTION IN EUROPE.
Ominous Symptoms Of Great Social
Upheavals All Over the Oontino MT.
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Omtnous Symphonic Of Great Social
Upheavals AL Over the OOntine MT.
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You have heard of the arrests in Bir-
mingham and London of the men who
have been manufacturing nitro-glycer-
inc in such enormous quantities, and
who have been caught just in the mo-
ment to save London from widespread
and horrible disaster. But you have
not heard across 1000 miles of land and
water the echo of the feeling in England.
This feeling is very complex. The pub
lie press supresses this feeling, as it
deems it in the interest of social order.
All sober-minded persons look upon this
Fenian plot to carry on assassination
widespread with detestation and horror.
The full power and penalty of the law
must be used and enforced. All this
goes without saying. But the dominant
conviction is that we are just at the be-
ginning of u European political and so.
cial revolution. The old regime is draw
ing to close. 1t is given out that never
again will crown be permitted to be
placed upon a head in Europe. Men
who are sober and as prophetic as was
Isaiah, rs solemn and as pathetic as Jer-
emiah, call the. world to order. "Halt."
All along the line these men are shout
ing "Halt."
Education, steam, electricity have in
trodnced man to man all over Europe.
Nan is in solemn conclave. In London.
in its streets, its clubs, its galleries.
among all sections of society, men are
propounding questions in social states
that no philosophy can answer, except
just one-social revolution!
The wrongs of Ireland are venerable
and heirous. England has been strong
and confident. The wrongs of Ireland
have been recognized and redress prom.
ised. Az far back as 1913 royal com.
vor of certain reform in Ireland. Bill
after bill has for these forty years been
introduced looking to reformatory legis-
lation, and they have either been de-
feated or dropped.
Englishmen own Ireland. These few
thousand landowners have. up to now,
exacted every farthing Of rent in good
years and bad years, and have spent
their money in England. Ireland has
been Hillainously governed and socially
ill.used.
So to the end would Ireland have been
governed and ill.used had she not made
her voice heard in the land. But really
the Irish question, mOmentous as dyna-
mite is causing it to be. is but small
factor in this general European revoiu-
ton.
The Car of Russia is the absolute rul-
er Of 81, 900 600 souls. He keeps in his
winter palace 1000 servants! He and
the imperial family of Russia absorb an
amount of the wealth Of these 5000, 600
souls almost beyond calculation and be-
yond the knowledge of any one of them.
But Russia is tar away. Perhaps not 80
far but that we shall yet hear report of
more dynamite explosions there before
the imperial crown is placed upon an
other head. The extent of the precau-
tons being taken in Russia is almost I'M
bellevable. Even now the whole line
Of travel from the palace, where the
Gar now is, to the Kremlir, where he
is to be anointed and crowned ut Mos
COW, is guarded by the military and civic
police.
But let us look nearer home. The
Queens yearly grant of over 100000
does not at all represent what her mai
esty costs this nation. Her palaces. her
parks, her yachts, and almost her house
holds are kept at public expense. In
the budget this year, it ia reported,
there is actually a charge FOL a ratcatcher
for catching rats in the royal palace.
The nine children of the Queen have
enormous allowances rated upon the peo-
pie, and yet not one OF them ever crosses
the channel except at the expense of the
people. just now parliament is asked
to vote G25. 900 to send the Duke of Ed
| lnburgh to Russia to see the car crowned.
WOlseley and Seymour are created peers,
and parliament votes each ;e25, 900 as O
present, or rather with which to found q
family. Royalties and ariStocracies are
expensive ornaments. and for the first
time in modern Europe people are ask
ing it this wicked show is much longer
to be kept up.
Business and labor are depressed: in
many places all trade is stagnant. With
in a guns shot Of Buckingham palace
men and women are dying not figura-
lively bnt actually-oi starvation. Yet
any member of loyalty can cross the
channel any day Of the week and the
people must pay for it to the tune of
from G4Oto &12O.
Their infinite disparlties between these
royal princes ana the millions of the
toiling, suffering subjects are being not
only seen and felt, but resented. What
redress have the people? How can they
make themselves heard? Parliament is
legislature of the rich. and men who
oppose these venerable wickednesses
are counted as eccentric. as agtators as
dangerous. Power never surrenden
power. The present ministry is called
liberal; it is said to be the most radical
not one member of the cabinet-not Sir
Charles Dixie or Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain-dares vote against these wicked
and thieving appropriations TO princes
and to endow newly created peers.
There is no newspaper Of influence in
London, if in England, that raises its
power against these legislative wrongs.
The tongues Of the platform and the
press and the pulpit are bribed by social
considerations. 10 be socially Sin the
swim" one must praise the queen, in
season and out Of season; must often
chatter away, like parrot, about the
prince of Wales being overworked, and
regret that all the royal family have SO
does not increase;their several allowances
But the millions are not socially
''in the SWIM" and have no hope of ever
being, and SO they have calm heads-if
often aching hearts-with which to con-
slider the infinite disparities. Dynamite
is horrible. Assassination is hideous.
These are one way that men are making
themselves heard. The press, the plat
form, the pulpit are closed to their cause
! The estimates for the army were never,
in time of peace, so large as this years
budget, amounting to the sum of En-.
0O.O 600. The shipyards are turning out
war vessels costing the people millions
more; and millions of these people are
finding life an intolerable burden
Their backs are bending and breaking
under their loads: and they are whisper:
ing their wrongs into the ears of sympa.
thetic men who become frenzicd, and
are speedily converted into dynamite
monsters and dastardly assassins
The Culture Of Beauty.
The lady Of forty, who uses Glenn's Sui
phnr Soap, the great skin beautifier, drops at
least ten years of her age. Unlike the danger
Gus cosmetics which ot,struct the pores, it is
entirely harmless. See that &C. n. Critten-
l bon u