The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-27

EnxIand Of SITTING aside tue Portuguese
claims. tAe shreNd Old German chancellor
has considered Il w0rth MS while 10 i'm
press uE,on the English prsulier taat there
i something far more important than At
rscan possessions ~ stake. and Is sigrin-
cantly warned thzs bis country had better
foreso for the present. Il nos for Al time.
snssssance on her alleged African rights.
than in the slightest degree just now 70 hu-
initiate Portugal.
lis seen that such Al set At this tians
would be the tipping d the frst brick on
the row, 70 be quickly followed BY Spain,
then Italy, and then-Ehat7 In the an
gwex 70 this porfenloas "What7" he per
eeives unspeakabie consequences. de
knows, and 50 does Salisbury. the differ
ence between notwithstanding the govern
rnent OF Latin nation. whether II the Old
World or Ia the Sew. whether from mem
archy to republic or sscs VeySas and reyoiu-
tionizIng the governments Of either the
German or British empire.
Bouaangsr. the other day, in coagratu-
Iating Fonseca, especially compiimented
hioodless revolution as compared with the
long and dreadful struggle b. which this
country adhered its independence. And
that was fair example Of Boulanger's pen
esrafion. To his mind the ideal revolution
would be that which would be accom-
piished on the drop of 3 bat. the wave of q
hand or in response to a bugle-calL
But neither Angio-Saxon nor Teutonic
nations revolutionize their governmets in
that way. No people qualified for genu-
Inc repuhlicanisln reyolutionixe their gov
eminent without struggle. Unless this
republic Of ours shall degenerate so as 70
bring the system into disrepute. the time
is coming. and may not be far distant,
when England certainly. and Germany per-
haps, will be republicanized. But~not in
either case without q struggle that viii
shake the world
Deep thinkers and keen observers who
have recently visited England and studied
her political condition. have expressed the
opinion that the masses of that country
are in large part even more democratic
than our own. Some have gone 80 far as
to say that the proportion is not less in
England than in America of people who
are attached TO the free principles OF repre-
sentative government which We DO asst.
But none of these travelling observers
have yentured to deny that many English
men are devoutly attached to the existin &
order. And there are few habitable por-
tons OF this earsh's surface that do not
bear evidence that they win vigorously
fight for that which they believe in. and
viii keep up the contention with bulldog
tenacity. The same is true OF the Ger
mans, with the exception that they are
perhaps not in equal proportion imbued
with republican ideas.
When England and Germany do become
republics it will not be merely in name.
They win be self-governing and stable, free
and progressive. But it cannot be until
after hard fight. And even Bismarck can
but tremble to forecast that tremendous
struggle. That trifiing error might make
1t inevitable he plainly perceives. There
fore this, from Bismarck, extraordinary
plea for moderation and concession. Il
means that the signs of the times are very
pertentious