The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-19

the meantime the fat, good-natured
stupid, German empress contentedlJ
pursues her harmless way, turning ou
princes with the regularity OF a Litch.
| field COW.
1t is already quite evident that the
! third emperor, he of Russia, has ne
| idea of departing from the methods OIL
| government inherited from his ances
| tors. He, for one, does not believe thai
all men are born free and equal; does
not accept the political sequence Of un.
iversal suffrage. Is he far from
wrong? Analyze the notion. Is any
man born free? On the contrary, is
there any period in his life, from the
time he enters the world till the time
he goes out of it, when he Is less free
and more wholly dependent than when
he is born? What single act of free
dom is he capable Of performing? For
years and years, till he has obtained
the consciousness of youth, he Is utter
| ly dependent on mamma, papa, nurse
and bottle, And who Is there to main
tain that his individual consciousness,
when he gets it, is not quite as much a
matter of surroundings as a matter of
birth? Even Kant maintains uniform
ity of concepts. No more ridiculous no
ton was ever promulgated than that
men are born free. Equally false is
the assertion that all men are born
equal; for there are no greater inequal-
titles than the inequalities of birth.
Some are born rich; some are born
poor. Some are born strong; some are
born weak. Some are born of wise and
virtuous parents; some are born in sin
and wretchedness. Some inherit the
capacity to govern; others inherit no
capacity at all. Some grow UP as
stately trees in well ordered gardens;
others inherit the nature Of noxious
weeds and of crooked brambles That
each generation may be and should be
an Improvement on the last; granted.
but let there be a test to virtue and
learning; a guage to citizenship, a pro
motion to suffrage. 1t Is sad fact SO
far in the history of the world, an un-
deniable fact, that the ignorant and the
vicious increase more rapidly In
growing republic than the learned and
the virtuous. Where suffrage Is uni
versal the average Of representation Is
sure to fall France OF to-day Is an in
structive example Of this truth. A fact
less general, more interesting and of
better place in an off-hand letter is the
growth on the continent of Europe of
the English language, Twenty years
ago 1t was very necessary for the trav-
eler to speak and understand French.
French has ceased to be the universal
language Of communication, and Eng
lish is rapidly taking its place, Even
in court and diplomatic circles there Is
moro English heard than French. This
bit of information the reader will have
to take second hand but it comes from
good authority. In hotels. restaurants
and shops English has quite superse-
ded French. And why not, when there
are a hundred Engllsh-speaking people
going about to one Frenchmanl The
French seem to have given UP travel
ing altogether. They are still smart
ing under their Prussian defeat and
don't like to be seen outside Of their
own country. English is taught In all
the public schools. No education is
complete which does not embrace a
serviceable mastery Of the English Ian
guage. This has its disadvantages, for
it makes English and Americans more
and more mono-tongue and deprives
them Of the exercise and the exhibition
of their linguistics.
Before this letter is closed mem
ton must be made Of the court |
which are now interest
ing Rome. The failure of the chief |
bank of Italy some time ago and the
terrible scandals which followed are |
still fresh in the memory. Giolitti, the \
prime minister did not escape, and he
and his fellow ministers were quickly |
voted out of office. Then comes in |
5rispi, his bitter enemy, who exposed |
he frauds, posing as virtue incarnate.
Trispi had not been long i'm power bell
'ore political and social circles We're
stirred to their bottom by rumors, then |
statements, then assertions, that Clio
it'll had in his possession documents
which proved beyond question not only |
lis own innocence, but that the chief
,ulprit was Crispl himself, Crispi |
lbout the same time discovered that
lis premises had been entered his min
sterial cabinet broken open and
,undle of private, secret and most i'm
,ortant letters bearing on the fraud abb
tracted. Putting two and two togeth-
II, and being well up in all the wrin-
lies of italian craftsmanship. he cor
ectly concluded that Giolltti had com
nitted the larceny. He Immediately
instituted criminal proceedings But
'efore process could be served Giolltti
acked his bag and fled to Belgium,
where the minions Of Italian law could
ot reach him. Safely housed in Brus-
els, he has been hurting all manner Of
mpertinent defiances at his foe; dar-
ng him to come on and cross swords
Ike gentleman; filling pages of Bel
ium newspapers with heroic anathe-
las. All the while Crispi has been quiz
thy attending to his business of gov
rning the country respectfully and
Suddenly comes the ,
ews that Giolitti, tired of the common +,
lace attractions of a one-horse capital;
isgusted with the obscurity into
.hich he finds himself tumbling, and
notoriety to life itself, has
etermined to return and beard the
onine Crispi In his ministerial den.
Immediately follows with Geographic
aste the information that he has
arted. Now he approaches Turin;
DIV he is there, pausing to consider,
lille friends flock about him with
ords of cheer or warning. Upon this
'eathless news soon wars the fact
lat he is in Rome itself and Is pacing
"a CoreO fcyxya ,5c tt,o y,1ooa of t,Io1 |