Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-06-11
Entered at the Post Office at Colds
b0ro, N. c.. as Second Glass Matter.
I'll PASSING 10Y

THE PASSING SHOW.
The whole civilized world has
been excited, if not 70 enthus-
iasm at least to deep interest, by
the recent GROWING of the Rus
sian Gear, an event of no espe>
cial Importance to anybody ex-
cept the millions of his subjects
who foot the considerable bill of
500, 600, 900 for the display, and
the friends of the LOO people
trampled to death during the
ceremony. It is likely that when
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis and
the other especial commissions
ers" of our fercely democratic
American newspapers send home
their reports of the great pa
geant we shall be surfeited with
pen and pencil pictures of the
august royalties till the reader
will almost wish that the Mills
lists had resisted" at the per-
Torrance as it was expected that
they would.
In the absence of Mark Twain
who sees through royalty with
an X-ray power of vision, an
Englishwoman, the novelist
"Oulda," makes a most incisive
Study of Royalty" in the June
Forum, and she finds it in truth
a very sordid and shabby thing.
It is not easy to imagine an
American woman novelist writ-
ing as she does of Royal shams,
for our literary ladies as a rule
revere rank. Nor is ''Ouida'
animated by national prejudices
when she SAYS
The Government of Russia is
the worst in the whole world; it is
a brutal absolutism founded on 8
rotting bog of corruption; the
present family of Romanoff is moi
ancient; its blood is chiefly Ger
man; 1t has neither historical MOI
national interest or value. Yet
we we're told, a few months ago,
that the hope of this dynasty be
ing continued in the direct line,
sent thrills of ecstasy through
every Russian breast from the ict
of the Baltic to the palms of Cri-
mea. If the Russian moujik in
deed extracted any satisfaction
from that prospect we are only
once more reminded of the axiom
that every people has the govern
ment it deserves. The extinction
of the Romanoff line might b,
considered a for rejoicing
that its continuance should hav'
been regarded IS such proves tina
the human race is as yet behind il
intelligence the bison and buffalo
who select for their leader tn,
wisest, strongest, best, of all tn
herd,
Waen the Duke of York go
married a dignitary of the En-
glish Church called the even
1.-The fairest scene in all creation,
and: ITO make presents on thes
nuptials. dockyard laborers,
longshoreman, river boatmen
village peasants, mechanics, min
ers, parish school children, cot
tagers, weavers, carpenters
bricklayers the whole, in
word, of the poorest and hardes
worked members of the nation
were hidden, in terms which ad
mitted of no denial, to give up
days wage or the price of
weeks meals to assist in pur
chasing some necklace, bracelet
or other jewel for a young lad
who is to be the future wearer @
the crown jewels of Great Brit
ainv'
Doubtless there have been sin
iliar voluntary contributions
exacted from the loving subject
of the Gar; but the Russian des
pot has no need to be a hypo
critic, and if any of his people ap
peared backward in expressin
their exqisite delight over th
occasion, there are ways of slim
ulating loyalty there as in Eng
land.
1.-The weakness of every mod
ern republic lies IN its jmitatio
of royalthy," says "Ouida," Il
it's dim servile reproduction {
the person of the monarch in tn
person of the president" Thu
far we have had no such imitatio
in this republic. Fulsome fat
terry has been the exceptio
rather than the rule animatin
American citizens in their att
ude toward the chief servant {
the nation, who as a man or a
official, is considered .'just g
good as anybody else so long E
he behaves himself" and not
whit better, save in so far as b
behavior is better than the avel
age. The coronation of a Ca
or the jubilee of a Queen is
function which readers a hundre
years hennce will regard in tt
same way as we of to- day rega1
the triumphal procession of tt
car Of Juggernaut.