The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-31
THE MILLENARY. OF KING ALFRED.

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THE MILLENARY OF KING ALFRED
AS a rule directions made from the accidental syn
chronsm between unrelated or very remotely
curences are purely fancifu yet the coincidence of thu
celebration the millenary Alfred
obseques Of President Mckinley is suggestive of the
tnuity of the history of human society," The which
rung in by the peal Of the Liberty Bell July
1776 but span in the life Of the which spread
over this continent The institutions and laws unde
which live older than the nation and their origins
must be sought a distant past, says the Phia
depha Record. The history of America antedates thu
Revolution and the precedents followed by the Fathers
Of the Republic and the Of the constitution haC
been the cherished heritage of speakers Of the Engsl
tongue from time mmemOriaL Kngshp abolished
together with class privilege but the law. the
Bill Of Rights and representative government were no
newly invented After making due allowance for the
Of political derived from other sources one
is constrained to admit the parenage of the body
Of laws and the sequence of institutional history
which leads back to time before Alfred and continues
lines nearly collateral than may imagined by
the superficial observer in the mother country the self
governing British colonies and the United States.
English kings had curbed tried and deposed BY
the people before the American descendants of English
threw George III overheard. Charles L lost his
head, Richard H. and Edward H. adjudged unfit &c
the and John was copeed to subscribe the
Oldest exant charter liberties Runnymede The re
Concord and Lexington had its parallel in the movement
in Great Britain which resulted Reform bill and in
the practical abdcaton Of their right rule by the sue
cesors of King George; that has become truth that
the British sovereign reigns but the British democracy
governs
From comprehensive point Of view therefore Kine
Alfred the teacher lawyer and regeneaor of his people
creative force in the shaping of institutional
system which claim own. Whatever pride the
celebration at Winchester in the breasts
Engshmen who have tared the old soil may he shared
by their greatgrandsons and remor generations in Amer
lea OF the thousand years English national life which
have interviewed since the great Areds death nine hun
dred Identical with that OF people, and the other
one hundrd were not dyrgent from life Otter
supposed Possibly the streams which divided centur,
and quarter ago may again unite in a word-embracins
EngIshspeaking nation The seat of AngloSaxon power
has been removed from Winchester to Westminster and
London; its removal Washington would be but another
illustration of the historical continuity suggested by the
celebration at King Alfreds sneent capital
Czol9qsz hated; The church. women. work, family
abstemious bashful nid normal in body and brain Blu
he hated and nothing else vent for aught
The scbley inquiry viii soon be finished and Their
the controversy viii begin again No should CINE
for minute that the two factions be quieted by
little tnins Ike decision
America does not believe that Miss stone is dead Tb,
Bulgarian government seems TO insist that view prob
ably with The intention Of rushing the collection OF
Czolsosz was an inveterate stogysmoker Nothing vii
get under mans moral nature and up into the
air like the spindle-shanked stogy Of commerce.
The thoush that comes most frequently to Dewey +.
that If he had been charge Of the Atlantic squadron the
campaign would have been different
The next time one Of Seheys kind blockades port
be VIII nor rely on foreign vessel to discover the pres
ence or absence OF the enemy.
NJ Tslka has broken into the news columns He
expects great things IN the way Of money from
friends in America.
1t VIII DE good day when. If the naGoa remains by
capital punishment the newspapers VIII refrain from
printing details
Czolgosz brother and his brotherinlaw 90 not know
much They act more Ike Russian peasants than Amer
leans.
The Pole Czolgosz hated women and the church. The
man who hates those S gone
They found czoeosz brain to be normal Be, ii wasnt
working at the trade