The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-26
! EW YORK. Apri, behave you
= ever thought how much history
is like the kaleidoscope?

Turn it with the wrist and you marvel
at the change, new designs, new colors
new forms
Place recorded history to the eye, glance
into It, and behold the scope, the color
and the form of civilization glowin,
under a. tropical Sur 49, Turn the pages
and you marvel at the change. New
plans Of empire, new colors. new forms. +
Examine the Kaleidoscope, bits of glass
placed at angles, threads, beads, silk
gay In color. wersteds bright and warm.
Examine history peoples, yellow, cop
per, dark. black and white. countries
glowing under tropical suns, or cold
bleak, unpromising; progress from condi.
ton to condition; struggle of the people
to subjugate material matt ter.
lime It's to history what the turn of the
wrist Is to the Kaleidoscope
With every turn change
History Is repeating jself. =,
To-day fair-sklnned people are hay.
1ng their day 1t was not SO hong ago that
they clothed in the skins of animals and
beasts, swarmed through the forests OF
Northern Europe a frightened horde TIC
the south OF them On the sunny side OF
the mountains a dark-skinned people ad.
Vanced, in the arts of civilization claimed
dominion of the earth and at times made
incursaons Into their territory In military
Bulse, to the eastward a swarm of vel
low-skinned or tawny people crossed the
Hinalayas and pressed them westward
Beset by numbers. skilled In warfare
these white-skinned people fed before the
taWny or yellow people and the dark peo-
pie. Driven westward, some crossed from
the mainland to the peninsula of Norway
and Sweden, to the British isles, and 9TH
ers intrenched, themselves on the sea
coast. resisting the sea and man with
dykes and bitches
In the tawny people, expelled by the
commissions Of another people about
whom recorded history is fragmentary
and Imperfect, We discover the ancestors
Of the Poles, Hungarians, ,Bulgarians
and the Slavic races of Russia and
Southern Europe, the barbarians that
f1iled Rome with dread; in the dark
skinned people we find the founders Of
Roman republic and the makers of the
Roman empire, and in the white-skinned
people the basis Of the AngIo-SaXOn civ
ilization.
Need we hold history to the eve to see
the greatness Of the people who founded
the empires that flourishd and decayed
in what we call Asia? What forms and
GolorS come when we speak of the Tar
tars who pressed southwark into China:
Of the Chinese who outcassed their in
Vaders in wealth. arts and. refinement,
yet succumbed: of the gorgeousness of
the princes Of India and Persia that fell
slightly and races come and go. They
rise from the soil of some country like a
plant, put forth leaves. blossoms, bloom
and in the fullness of flower some i'll
wind strikes them. scatters their petals
then they fade, wither, fall and steril-
ity blasts the very ground.
Against this dark background of civil
lzation that have come up to bloom and
wither as flowers stands in relief the
civilization Of the white-skinned people.
or strenuous people, indeed; ever at
war with conditions, seeking to domi-
nate elements and material matter.
Selling upon the records of it's own en-
deavor to weld experience. with expert
ence, deduction to deduction and thereby
tific laws. Building, ever building, I'M
mindful, however, of the decay that
overcame all other peoples.
One of the least impOrta ant conditions
notable in the past is the form of gov
ernnent the people set up. The white
skinned people are testing their civiliza-
ton under two forms. On one side of the
Atlantic. a republic; cn*the other, con-
,stitutional monarchy. Both secure to the
people, almost the same security to life
and liberty. In the main there Is no es-
sentlal difference in the governm ents es-
tablished by the Anglo-Saxon people, such
differences as do exist are more fanciful
OPERATORS Of government are merely the
result of enacted laws that. can at any
time be brushed aside. The difference
most noted cetWeen the constitutional
nlonarchies and the republic Is the recog-
milton of a class by the former. Since
peer and peasant equal before the
law, and feudal power has been destroyed
the difference between classes is more
fanciful than real and the hereditary
right Of the peer to be represented in one
branch of the law-making body is offset
by the right of the" peasant to be repre-
scented in the other. Evils existent in
other civilizations. or in earlier periods Of
although 1t Is commonly so supposed. Gov
eminent always has sprung from the will
of the people. 1t only exists at the will
and during the pleasure Of the people.
1t reflects that will In it's rudest form
when the law of the land was the will Of
the chief, it existed by the consent of the
governed. II that chief ruled harshly,
despotically, tyrannically it was largely
due to the fault Of the people who had
unwisely given consent 10 a government
that became oppressive by allowing power
to man who could use 1t to their detri-
ment- AS times advanced and men pro-
crossed, the people modified the power
of rulers and, took it upon themselves.
Government has always Jagged behind
the advancement of a people, and the his
tory of the Anglo-Saxo2 civilization may
be said to present the spectacle Of a peo-
pie Juggling to raise government to the
level Of average intelligence; indeed, it IL
a fair proposition that government g
never equaF to the average intelligence
of the governed. '..-. -.- ...:.
One of the least important conditions
ever notable in the past IS the influence of
riches. Great wealth controlled by in
dividuals in every nation and in every
civilization has been productive of evils
greater than those of government. 1t has
always been vicious. If it Is not an in
strument for evil in the hands of the
father it has been in the son. 1t has
operated like blight in India, In Egypt.
in Rome. in London. and, doubtless will
in New York. The getting of wealth has
been always attended by the exercise OF
every mental faculty. the employment OF
wealth amaSSed has always been at
tended by ,tlfe decadence of individuals.
No nation has lost it's vitality, it's grip.
until 1T produced a class of rich men. The
lust. for wealth appears in recorded his
tory to have been the greatest evil that
ever beset the more refined and cultivated
people and the exercise Of 1t the most
'damningJ to- the people who came within
the radius of its influence. In fact. his
tory proves. the least desirable persons
in a community have been the rich.
The sAnglo-Saxon civilization has pro-
crossed to that point-the same as be.
longed to other civilizations-namely
hands OF single individuals That the
amassing Of wealth haa become a lusl
needs no proof. What the result will be
opens a. wide heldtof speculation. Tn this
connection the two forms OF government
that Of q constitutional monarchy an6
that Of a republic, becomes interesting
: AT the very outset the human principle
yr,,af he rtno00nized fl1af ri1ooocafYi1 MGR