Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-01-10
ALL KINGS TO DISAPPEAR
Colonel Ethan Aliens Prophecy
For the Twentieth Century.
REPUBLIC GROWING AND WINNING

N11 OOI1O UhU lNU AMI WINNING
nIoEnrchs Surely Must Become I'm
necessary and Pass Away, He Says,
> Following other Defunct Forms of
Government - Highest Civilization
Given to the World by Christianity.
Copyright, 1000, The Christian Herald, New
York.
"Will kings disappear" OF course
they will. as they are the product of
dark ages and surely must become un-
necessary in the dawn of the twentieth
century, says Colonel Ethan Allen. The
world progresses in all it's relations.
both inanimate and animate. The age
Of ice is followed by the age Of bloom;
the saurian passes away and more use
full life succeeds him, and man, who
began as a cave dweller," now walks
the floors of a palatial home, which
is adorned becomingly for this lord
OF all, whose mental equipment at
last weighs and estimates the stars
Shall development stride onward to
greater results everywhere and halt
at politics? Politically man has fought
his way from the lowest round of the
ladder of social control to the highest
and today that highest is republican
rule, or the reign Of law as commanded
by the people. This means that kings
must pass away. following other de-
funct forms of government.
The steps of the marching millions of
the earth up to Washington, are politi-
cally well defined. Beginning with the
"paternal head" of his tribe, whose
sway was when the world was young,
we advanced to the patriarch whose
word was law to many peoples. Fol
lowing the changing experiments Of
Egypt and of Greece we reach the abso-
lutism of imperial Rome. The Caesars,
broken by their own tyranny, the
'feudal lord" as their successor was
the legaliZed pirate of the middle ages.
Then came monarchy. at first absolute,
but afterWard softened by constitu-
tional provisions as man began to as
sert his power against the insolence
of kings. Then followed the last and
grandest achievement for political prog
ress, the American Revolution and
the Inauguration of the great republic,
which, by its example. is today teach
ing the nations of the earth that kings
are but impostors who have outlived
their day.
The unrest which now surges under
the thrones of Europe, like volcanic
| fires within the planet, comes from the
| ;1l, 1, <1o%
| crowns and coronetS should go to the
museum. with the thumbscrew and
| other implements Of suffering which
We're once the safeguard of the thrones
of the entire world. The irrepressible
conflict for the overthrow of monarchy
begun in the last century shall surely
| acquire increased strength in the cen
| fury to come Evolution never goes
back. but forward. and the republic,
which stands for man as his own prop
erty and not as the chattel of a special
class, expanding and conquering,
means higher civilization and better
conditions of life. France is a repub-
lie; England trembles upon the verge
of a change; Germany is held fast to
ancient and barbaric rule by hand Of
iron, but her bayonets are of the class
which has the power to think, most
dangerous to rulers when the hour of
opportunity sounds it's ominous knell.
Christianity has given the world it's
highest civilization. Wherever the
cross has been raised. there has man
lifted his eyes to a realization of higher
and nobler life. 1t has been forced to
advance step by step with tyrannical
rule. but at it's highest tide it has
usually favored and taught the great
est lenency in government 1t has
steadily moved forward till all the
western hemisphere bows before the
Nazarean symbol. and long before this
Europe acknowledged it. Aggressive,
persistent and always armed be-
cause of it's faith in the righteousness
of its battle, it is now reaching its ever
conquering arms toward Africa and
Asia In China it has been hurled
back but he reads with but little wis
dom who fails to see that this Is
but the recession of the wave, to gather
its strength into one mighty billow for
a higher reach upon the shore.
AS Christ came to teach of the life
hereafter. so Washington came in a
lesser mission to teach Of better way
Of life on earth. with liberty of thought
and action to do what seemed best be-
tween man and his Maker. without the
restraint, the tyranny. the cost and the
impertinent opulence Of kings. And
so the star of Bethlehem is supple
mented with the star Of Mount Yer
: non. the free life assured by the second
being necessary to the free religion Of
the first and this twin constellation. OF
evil omen to kingly rule, in the destiny
Of man must make the circuit OF the
globe, and take effect in every coun-
try.