Amador ledger., 1900-09-21
THE PITH OF POLITICS.
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Monarckies have been established on
the rnins of republics, and imperial.
isin. nasquerading in the habiliments
Of free government is even now hold.
ing sway over millions of men.
These are historical and verifyable
facts and justify lovers of free insti-
tutlons III exercising IL keen soliotitude
on behalf of Il liberty that they love
and of the perpetuity of institutions
which they hold dear
while this solicitude is not taking a
night direction when it permits ambiti-
Gus petifogogers to create panics by
crying wolf at the spectre of i'm
perialism it may properly prompt lib.
erty-loving and patriotic men to study
well the history republics in order to
determine those causes which led en-
pires TO be founded on their ruins.
These causes are not far to seek.
Let MS first learn how republics are
not converted into empires. That will
relieve our minds of load of care.
History does not afford an example
IN which republic. by allowing power
70 become more and more centralized,
finally merged into all empire with
monarch ON the throne instead Of
president i'll the executive chair.
And history does not afford an in.
stance where republic. by annexa-
tlons and extensions of authority over
outlying provinces. graduated into i'm
perialism.
The foregoing would seem, at first
Thought, to he natural methods of evo-
tuition from republics into empires, but
there is nothing which Il real seeker af-
ter truth so needs TO guard himself
against as accepting as true things
which only seem to he true at first
glance, and it is beeanse people are so
prone to do this that 'iemogogues are
able TO mislead the multitude to their
own advantage and the public injury.
Anarchy was ever the mother of
monarchy.
1t was not until the several states of
Greece had so warred against each
other that the Greeks had become dis
heartened with thebelief that they would
never again he at peace with them
selves that the spirit of imperialism re-
suited i'll the founding of the Mace
donian empire
The wars of Marius and Sulla reduced
the republic of Rome to faction and an.
archy SO that the people were glad to do
away with pretended governments
that they might enjoy security under
an empire founded by Julius Caesar
The quarrels of the petty states of
Italy and the want of order and secur.
aty everywhere furnished the founda.
1ioa for United Italy under the imperial
sovereignty OF Victor Emmanuel
The anarchy of Marai and Robes.
pierre was the foundation upoh which
Napoleon built his empire
The intellectual attempts of the Eng
lislI people to preserve order and give
safety to life and property amid the
contending factions of Independents,
PresbyteriansandR RoyaIists made Crom-
well dictator and finally restored
Charles II to the throne Of his murdered
father.
This has been the course Of history
through all the ages and SO will run its
course to the end of time.
The first step III putting down anarchy
is to make some strong man dictator
and the next is to make that dictator
king.
1t is mob law that engenders imperi-
ellsIu and when, under attempted self
government, social order is sacrificed TO
mob law dictator is soon found and
the crowning of that dictator king NAV
not be long delayed.
Ii the dictator be not crowned king
in form he becomes such in fact and i'm
perialism reigns in the habiliments of a
pretended republic
It is 50 i'll Mexico where the will of
President Diaz is the supreme law of
the land. His has been the master hand
that brought order out of chaos in that
long distracted land and if, unhappily.
government under his wise administra.
tion has not been by the Mexican peo.
pie it has been most fortunately for the
Mexican people.
The pretended republics of Central
and South America alternating between
dictatorships and anarchy are unstable
despotisms.
A country can grow in population,
the arts may flourish and wealth may
accumulate while a determined war is
waRing against some other country if
only there can be order and security al
home.
It was the eighty years in which the
Netherlands waged their sanguinary
war with Spaiii that marked the gold.
en- age of Dutch painting and letters
and made the cities of Holland the
financial and industrial centers of
Europe.
France prospered as she had not before
during the Napoleonic wars, and the
northern states of this republic ill.,
creased in wealth and population while
putting down the greatest insurrection
In human history.
There is no load which n brave peo-
pie cannot carry if only they can have
ut home, peace, security and the orderly
reign of law, and when these essentials
can not be had otherwise there is near
Iy always some ambitious, forceful,
MAGNETIC man who will undertake to
secure them through the Instrumental
Ity of dictatorship ami, if possible,
parpetuste them through the instru-