Arizona republican., 1899-10-03
JOHN ]. INGALLS, ON BRYAN.

The monarch of the twentieth cen
fury will be the merchant. The des-
TIMES CT the world will be decided in
the counting house, not in the council
chamber of kings. The syndicate will
supercede the dynasty and crowns,
scepters, stars, garters, pedigrees and
| the tinsel millinery of titles will go ID
the trashpile, where they belong.
History will be written in ledgers
and on check books, and government
will be a matter Of balance sheets and
bookkeeping. The wars of the future,
| peaceful or bloody, will be for trade,
and not for traditions.
| The world already smiles derisiVely
at emperors, princes, dukes and lords.
They are anarchronisms. They seem
like harlequins in pantCmime for
villagers. The pret5nsions cf Kaiser
Wilhelm are parody on mediaevalism
that would excite mirth in a comic
opera
Is it possible to imagine an existence
more intoleTable to- a man of honor,
| spirit, ambition and sensibility than
that of the prince of Wales? A beg
gar, inextricably involved in dishonOr-
able debts, and dependent upon public
charity a libertine, a gambler, friv-
olous idler, waiting to become king of
England by the death or a'bdication of
his mother.
If possible, it must be worse than be-
ing vice president of the United States.
The democratic spirit, by abolishing
prescription, substituting individual
ism for absolutism, equality for privi-
| lege, and elevating the pIoletariat TO
supremacy in the state, has revolu-
tionized society and changed the func
lions of government.
The emaneipated mind, stimulated
by education and rendered intrepid by
liberty, has subjugated nature, and by
invention and machinery doubled the
working capacity of the human race.
Each of the four great civilized pow
ers-F.ance, Germany, England and
the United States-is producing more
food and commodities than it can con-
sumo, and must find purchasers for its
surplus, or curtail business, reduce
wages, discharge workmen and fall iii
at the rear of the procession.
This is the secret CT the partition of
China, of the conquest of Africa, of the
Siberian railroad, CT the agitation in
the orient
1t is a struggle for the life Of ma
lions. 1t is a contest for industrial
and commercial supremacy. Civil
cation is on trial and we have more
to gain and more tc lose than either
of our competitors. This is the APP
pointed time. Ten years hence it will
be too late. The game will be made.
1t is easy to say that American genius
and enterprise will conquer the mar
kets OF the world, but Spain kept our
products out of Cuba fer century by
hostile tariffs, and this exclusion had
quite as much to do with bringing on
the war as sympathy for the victims
of Spanish tyranny.
Governor Morton Of Indiana, when |
sarcastically upbraided by his enemies |
retcrt that there were but two classes |
of citizens who never changed their |
Opinions-those in idiot asylums and |
those in cemeteries. This was not per-
haps strictly philosophic, but it had |
kernel OF truth. 1t is impossible for !
political leader, in the constantly |
changing conditions of a nations daily |
life, tC maintain absolutely immutab,e /
opinions upon all subjects affecting the |
public welfare. What is right at one !
time may be wrong at anothsr-nOt in /
morals, but in policy. ''Tempcra mu-
tantum or nos in ills mutamur' is as
true now as when it was written.
Policies, to9, are generally tentative /
and experimental, and must be judged /
and measured by results. If baneficent |
they will be approved; if injurious, re-
Jected.
Could the problems CT reconstru. ton !