The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14

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not to say serious, for Europe and the
world, seeing that it is the hour of
century which will soon expire, and give
uIaca to the twentieth. 81 is not without
interest that we ask and ascertain what
the sovereigns are doing, the powerful en-
perors and the crowned heads who domi-
nate the nations and people Of Europe
with all the authority of their names,
the majesty of their titles anu the mag
uifcence of their glory.
Are the wearers of crowns still the hon
ored masters, the undisputed chiefs and
sovereign gods, In the eyes of the re-
spectfuI and kneeling multitudes, as the
faithful were pleased in olden times to
consider them?
Has not philosophy, in raising some.
abased others? Does the spirit Of wor-
ship stin exist, and if the throne stiu
stands, ii the altar has not crumbled
down under the influence of irreverent
gimes and the deeds of revolutionary
minds is the altar as firm and the throne
as sacred as formerly?
The season seems to be bad one, and
when the people imagine themselves to
be the equal of kings, then formidable
equinoctials arise. The people are the
element, and when their spirits are agi-
tated, when passions govern them, aad
when 1t pleases them to cast their auda-
cous waves upward. even to the heav-
en- ofsunworthy gods, then the imperial
and royal banks have but little chance of
salvation. These banks, even in quiet
times when the sea sleeps, are not very
sure. They are old and leaky, and the
calkers know full well that they are rot
ten. They may capsize and sink with the
least movement. Those on board sleep
uneasily, and the joyous song of security
in the morrow and pride in the future
is unheard. They know that this nine
teenth century is a revolutionary and
Tesicidal century, and they are asking
themselves by what waves they viii soon
or or later be overwhelmed. For they
will assuredly be saved neither by their
pilots nor by their captains, and the hour
of their shipwreck and annihilation is
last approaching.
Victoria is old, very old, after having
been long admired by her lords, shadow
OF queen, she is now but the mere
shadow Of woman. She will die or dis
appear with the vain crown of an empire
ON her Feeble gray head Her last days
VIII not be troubled, and the Irish them
selves will remember that she was a
woman. But her eldest son, so easy as
70 morals, VIII inherit heavy task, and
u ne becomes king of Great Britain and
emperor of India, seeing that he was
porn 70 bear the two crowns on his bald
Htdu, ne VIII soon know the weight of
responsibility of a king and of emperor
IN our epoch. His new titles will in no de-
eFee disarm his enemies, and those who
dlspIsed him when he was merely Prince
OF Wales will not be disposed to esteem
ana honor him when he is king And if
monarchy has its enemies, can It be inn
aslned that England will have none? Is
ireland her only victim, and are the peo-
PIE whom she has civilized and dominated
grateful for her civilization and her laws?
VIII her immense possessions in the old
world, calm and submissive at present
auOW her to sleep in peace and to traf-
ne with lmpunity? Is not the great oc-
topus Vulnerable in all its tentacles. and
VIII It be able to ward off all the assaults
Whlch VIII be made upon it at a certain
hour Of justice and liberty? England has
grossly deceived and still deceives gross
~: Her morals are those of covetousness.
without greatness or generosity. cold.
calculating and heartless. England has
no friends; her government is the sincere
Expression OF her feelings and of her sys-
lem. And is it not to be supposed that
WIN her irish difficulties, her conquered
anu only half faithful possessions, her
multiple and complex interests, her lords
ana laws OF former age, her great wealth
and her immense pauperism her proletary
ner political and social questions her
enormous debt and the enormity OF her
Iesponsibltes-is It to be supposed that
enc ers, can come out victorious from many
Crisis and resist her many internal and
external enemies, whose number increases
DAILY and who are fatal to her policy of
absorption, domination and infleXible ego
usm? In truth, the Prince of Wales viii
not enjoy many long days of a happy
IelSn and he will probably learn to his
sorrow and to the misfortune of his king
uoln, that country diminishes by rea-
son of its extensions Win he die on The
throne from which his old mother must
soon descend2 Meanwhile, and as if he
had no thought of reigning, he lives joy
Ously, with hardly any concern for the
future, turning from the fair ladies to
the pleasure of baccarat and from bac-
tcarat to the refined society of woman of
the 'dem-monde'
William is young, but young as he is.
MS days are numbered and the imperial
crown Of Germany does not seem to be
over secure on. the head of this nervous
anu slckly prince VIII he have the force,
or rather the good fortune of his grand
ldlner and will the circumstances which
made OF William ] a great sovereign If not
d seraJ man, serve, as might be desired
MN whom Germany does not look upon
eIlner as great man or as a great SOW
Treign2 Won Moltke is no longer, and
bismarck old and declining has more than
one doubt as to the durability of his work
ana the eternity of his empire He has q
presentment that many things will fall
IN the near future. And Germany has not
yet secured the political and moral unity