The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-11
WHEN MoNARCHs MAKE CALLS.

WHEN MONARCHs MAKE CALLS.
One has to read these accounts wired
from England and Austria, from Ger
many and France, of what happens
when monarchs go to make calls upon
their neighbor monarchs, if one would
get the right angle from which to view
his own happy lot as a free, independ-
ent and. relatively, unimportant Ameri-e
can citizen. Smith says to his wife,
some morning at the breakfast table,
when business is slack at the store.
that it has been now q long time since
they had seen Cousin Jones and his
family, and wouldn't she like to pack
up his valise and her telescope and
take a weeks visit with the Joneses.
And, madam conserving, grips are
packed, and with unostentatious sim
phc1ty this sovereign of a free state
goes with his royal consort, by day
coach or palace car, as their purses
and inclinations suit, to visit that other
sovereign Of another free state and the
y.
No guards attend their departure.
though the policeman on the beat NAV
make a note of it, as requiring a little
more watchfulness Of the house while
its head, or heads, are away. Arrived.
no demonstration awaits them, no
mounted guards attend them, no sa-
lutes are fired. Perhaps the visited
sovereign may meet them at the depot
or send his carriage, but, likely as not,
the visitors take a cab or the street
car and announce their coming with q
vigorous pull at the door bell.
All this is delightfully."- simple and
sensible, as BELTS citizen sovereigns
They go when they please, as they
please, where they please and how thew
please. There are no councils of state
where grave officers arrange the cere
monials Of departure and reception.
There are no nice distinctions of prece-
dence to be observed, whether Madam
S. shall precede or follow Madam T.
or whether Mr.. J. shall first lift his
nat In recognition or accord that dis
t1nction to Mr.. S. No questions arise
during the visit as to whether Madam
Smith can see in public Mrs. J.. whose
father was a defaulter before she was
born, and who married Mr. J. when he
was only a humble tanner and be-
fore he had risen to the chief magis-
tracy No cloud of detectives follows
and hovers around them, lest some ma
dgnant hoodlum profane their holiday
by coming 'twixt the wind and their
nobility Nor, in planning drives, is
a counsel Of statesmen needed to de-
eide what route may be taken where
guards can ride abreast and around.
and what not taken because these nre-
cautions cannot be taken and some
king-crazed fanatic might have a
chance to fling his dynamite bomb, with
his compliments. into the carriage.
And yet, as the veracious -chroniclers
are informing the world that reads the
daily papers, all these things and more
attend the goings and comings of mon
archs when they go calling, monarchs
who rule by divine right with iron
scepters, and not by simple ballots. The
American sovereign and his worthy
consort read the accounts and marvel
at the pettiness Of it. the immensely Of
detail, the punctiliousness Of cere-
monial. the petty things that rob meet
ings of pleasure, and, most of all. the
deathly fear of the people, among whom
these august personages perforce must
now and then go. And they ask each
other whether it pays to be car and
czarina when they must submit to all
these little, annoying vexations, and
can never ride about in the streets Of
any city unless guard of cavalry,
with drawn sabers, ride about them,
while fear sits beside them with appre
hensive eyes gazing on the crowd and
wondering which man has murder in
his heart and a bomb charged with dy-
Mantle under his frock And they con-
clude that it is better and happier to
be a simple sovereign in a republic
than a crowned and titled monarch of
a kingdom, with unlimited wealth and
despotic power