The Brunswick times., 1897-03-14

to believe that they make model wives.
do not think that they are the worst
in the world, but there are indications
which do not commend them much-for
instance, the mysterious history of a
certain witch who now owns a palace
on Fifth avenue and whose fortune, of
which she now makes an insolent show,
was amassed by preventing the increase
of population in the great republic; the
personals in New York newspaper;
the excursions on steamboats,, which fol-
low the publication of these personals
their trips to Europe and the lives they
lead i'll Paris.
After drawing This picture the Span
ish diplomat asks: Are all men and
women in the United States like this?
Maybe not. do not know them to be
SO, but let there be no misunderstand-
ing upon this subject. We are tired of
seeing and knowing persons who later
prove to be rascals; of hearing Ameri-
cans abuse their own countrymen, and
all the more when they happen to be
highly placed; of shaking hands with
persons who ought to wear manacles in
stead of gloves were we to believe
what those who know them say. \
1T is yet to be learned whether the
American commonwealth can continue
as it is now constituted. Will the Unit
ed States be able to exist when it has to
confront the social problems which now
attract Europe's attention? Will the
United States be able long to retain the
cohesion from which the federal consti-
tuition derives all it's force, having, as
the nation has, government lacking
unity and strength as we'll as corrupt
antagonism and opposing interests of
the various states? Will the United
States be able to meet foreign competi-
tion when wages are lowered abroad?
Will the western agricultural states sub
NIT to the economic servitude imposed
upon them by northern manufacturers?
In my opinion, all these problems will
present themselves i'll the United States
before long.
''As soon as the present industrial
movement ceases and the United States
gets on level with other nations when
profits become less, will the taxpayers
consent to be ruled as they now are?
Will they consent to pay large sums of
money for the maintenance of an army
which does not exist, of a navy the con-
dition of whose vessels is such that none
of them would be able to return to the
United States from trip to China, of
an administration whose members pro-
ui6n abundant ,,1nfnrio1 fa,-
tlOn in the criminal courts?
so many opposing interests cannot
long remain united. Time will bring
about the formation of three nations i'll
the east, west and south of the United
States. If, as CASTELAR, said, democracy
leads to unity and to the strengthening
of the central power, dictators will
eventually become necessary in these
three republics. From dictatorship to
monarchy there is but one step, which
will easily be taken by the austere re-
publicans, who now call themselves
generals, professors and doctors, ,
nobody knows why, for they are so in
partibus. No one would more willingly
than they assume the title of Duke of
Connecticut or Marquis of Minnesota.
Il will not attempt to describe an
American city, with its numbered
streets and straight avenues cutting
one another at right angles; with its
immense buildings, the architecture of
which would drive Vitrubio, Herrera
and Bramante to despair, although it
may delight men who began life chew
ing tobacco, with their feet stretched
upon pine table at a miners hut, and
who end it still chewing tobacco, but
with their feet now resting upon Cal
ifornia laurel table i'll marble palace
''In these free countries liberty is
for hotel keepers, for stage drivers, for
train conductors, fer Pullman car ne
gro pOrters, not for the unfortunate be-
ing whose lot is to foot the bill New
York Sun.