Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-20
THE WAVE OF Discomfort.
A Pessimistic Picture Of Old World Govern
ment-Not Much to Commend in Europe
Kind Words for Japan-Consequence
of Foreign Misgovernment

ernments, as they shall be designated, repre-
sent so many attempts on the part OF diner
ent types of the human family, and, in some
cases, different branches of the same type o
the human family, to attain a condition
called nationality, from which, 1t is assumed
would flow immense benefits either to those
who are charged with doing the governing
or to those to whom should accrue the ad.
vantages and emoluments of being governed.
These growing Institutions are made up
largely of different species of the genus
homo, between whom there is great ethno-
logical variation, with whom consequent
racial disagreement is most radical, and
who are determined to bar, to the full extent
OF their ability, the way to homogeneity.
These races are still further divided from
each other in this, chat each has a language
peculiar to itself, and each is also found
with that inevitable accompaniment Of an
undeveloped people-a State religion. These
religions, also, have been subject to divi-
stons, and those who foster them, acting
from the conviction that their own only is
right, engage in perpetual warfare to prose-
lyte from the others. Thus it is that Il mar
row clannishness is fostered, selfshness Is
inculcated and the progressive march of the
race Is much impeded, If not wholly re-
tarded.
An Undesirable kind of Peace.
If we look into the methods of admins
tratlon, Of the European cluster of govern
mental establishments, to which Switzer-
land, however, presents q noteworthy ex-
ception, we shall find constantly accumu-
lating mountains of indebtedness, more
heavily imposed burdens laid on the people,
an interminably slow lifting to q higher
horizon, and, while these governments make
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orally profess to follow the non-combative
prince Of peace, the peace, such as it Is, in
time Of peace, calls for 100000 of armed
men!
In the mere matter of government, in the
matter of securing stability, in attending
strictly to their own business and refra1ning
from intermeddling with the affairs OF
sSs Others As It muss 6e that
take the highest rank; nor IS their record
IN modern times, in the way of bloodthirsti-
ness, as pronounced as with their European
congenus. These latter, however, have an
equipment, in progress along the lines of
the modern arts and in the practi-
cal application Of scientific discoveries
Offset to this, there is garrel-
Gus mental restlessness, a wholesale desire
to dominate the earth and all that pertains
thereto. fulsome and overwhelming dispo-
sition to be generalissimo. 1t is this feeling
that finds expression In large standing
armies, in great naval equipment, where the
boundaries are maritime and that gives to
over the sickle and the pruning-hook. 1t is
this endless doing with the implements of
war, this constant clash and clang of arms,
that fans and keeps alive the old, inbred
gives to large portion of the Eastern Hem.
isphere the character OF vast military
camps, with constituencies, remorseless and
inhuman tyrants in command.
A Great Model in the Orient.
Probably nowhere in either hemisphere
is there more general happiness than among
the subjects of the Mikado. For civility,
genuine good-heartedness, observance of
general decorum, industry, sobriety, frugal
ity and healthy thrift we may look in vain
for parellel to the people of Japan. The
social character of these antipodes is as
planished as the long centuries of inter-
humanities could make an in
yenuous people, albeit the mild teachings Of
Buddha and the gentle philosophy of Con-
fucfus have made them heathens. But Russia
perpetrates more pure and unadulterated
1iabolism in any one day than does the
1ense Empire of China in one year.
Where shall we find anywhere on the map
If Europe, with the exception noted, o gov
that mantfests jealous regard for
he elevation of her people? Where Is it
hat the mechanism of administration is not
10 constructed tnaC SuD-SCratum OF Ser1S Is
another class to subsist from
heir toll and their sweat? Such conditions
nay find able defenders, and there NAV be
ong lines Of precedents, but therein must
turbulence, of anarchistic uprising and the
1nal overthrow of all moral and political
,rder. One may have a tender sentiment
or Fatherland, may paint fine fancies on
but when hunger invades great
modern capitals, when poverty stalks lean
md gaunt and deserving men, women and
wall for bread. there is much amiss:
here is nearly everything amiss: there Is
omething indefensible IN the Governments
tself for, with common sense and common
righteousness, such conditions could not be.
Either the State or the religion, or both,
must be at fault when citizens are banished, |
vhen clique, class, race and faith distinc- |
ions protrude to such sharp angles, when |
earance and forbearance are unknown and |
supreme self1shness gorges itself in fatness |
t the expense of distress in others.
No Excuse for . Famine Now.
There was some valid ground IN ancient |
ines for local want when there could be |
ut little interchange Of products, but there
ever was time when the earth, as whole,
id not yield enough to subsist all her |
avn is already here, when poverty, the
reat parent of crime, will itself be recog-
lied as crime and they that produce it, be
hey high or low, will be considered as crimi-
ais.
But what will be the consequence, what
ill be tho effect Of this mismanagement |
nd this misgovernment in Europe? Legions
Ill be driven r away: They wiz MS suffer ts this
ravely stand up and demand at home what
ley go elsewhere to seek-stand up and de-
land some of those 'fnnlienable rights"
nd, If necessary, strike for them.
The very liberties that are elsewhere |
1joyed were only secured at great cost and
IN only be maintained by eternal vigil |
nce." The evidence then seems to imply,
lat too many Of those who turn their backs
Fatherland, to the hills and valleys of
ome, to tho frestdes and graves of their
inbred, who sever all those tender ties
lat in their entirety constitute true patriot
M, do not possess to the fullest that
holesome constitution of mind which it
kes to perpetuate liberty and for which
ey elsewhere bore no part, and in their
ative land would bear no part in securing
The Value of Our Immigrants.
But they will go and go with their
developed ideas an6 the very freedom
hich they neetrenders their selfishness all
q more intolerable and dangerous. They
opardize the welfare of those among whom
ey obtrude their not very desirable
essence, those whose ancestors ignited and
ho themselves have kept burning the torch
broader liberty, 81 more liberal humanity
ID more comprehensive Justice. Going
th their narrow creeds, with no
Dad, generous conception OF Life,
,erty and the pursuit of happiness"
e aim, on the part of many. is too often to
ansplant that same deadly upas, whose
isonous emanations contaminated the
oral atmosphere and rendered life fntoler-
lie whence they came.
Almost without exception, where narrow
ss and bigotry flourish on American soil,
cir promoters will be found to be of recent
portation, and when this is not the case,
ey invariably prove to be the victims of
ported ideas which have no logical right
existence on the Western Hemisphere.
The careful observer need not be told that |
a lamentablv large extent, much of this
mischief has already been done.
But what will be the final outcome of such |