The age-herald., 1902-04-27

of the decay that overcame all other peo- ples.
 One of the least important conditions notable in the past is the form of govern ment the people set up. The white skinned people are testing their civiliza- ton under two forms. On one side Of the Atlantic a republic; or the other side, a l constitutional monarchy. Both secure to 1 the people. almost the same security to 1 life and liberty. In tLe main there is no essential difference Tn the governments .es- 1 tablished by the Anglo-Saxon people, such differences as do exist are more fanciful and fantastic than real. Many of the operations of government are merely the result of enacted laws that can at any time be brushed aside. The difference most noted between the constitutional monarchies and the republic Is the recog- hilton of class by the former. Since peer and peasant are equal before law, and feudal power has been destroyed, the difference between classes is more fanci- full 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 If the peasant to be represented in the other Evils existent in other ciyili- zations, or in earlier periods of this, did not spring from government, although 1t is commonly so supposed. Government always has sprung from the will of the ! people. It only exists at the will and l Curing the pleasure of the people. It re- i fleets that will. In Its rudest form when l tho law of the land was the will of the chief. 1t existed by the consent of the governed. If that chief ruled harshly, despotlcally, tyranncally it was largely | due to the fault Of the people who had | unwisely given consent to a government that became oppressive by allowing power to man who could use 1t to their detri- ment As times advanced and men pro- grtssed, the people modified the power of rulers and took it upon themselves. Gov ernment has always Jagged behind the ad- vancemert Of a people, and the history of l the Anglo Saxon civilization may be said | to present the spectacle of a people tug ging to raiso government to the level of average intelligence; indeed, 1t is a fair proposition that govcr nment is never equal to the average intelligence of the l governed.
 One of the least important conditions, 1 however, notable in the past is the in fiuence of riches Great wealth controlled by individuals in every nation and in ev- 1 cry civilization has been productive of 1 evils greater than those of government. l It has always been vicious. If 1t is not an instrument of evil in the hands of the father 1t has been in the son. It has op- erated like a blight in India, in Egypt
 
 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 attended l by the decadence of individuals. No na- tion has lost its vitality It's grip, until 1t | produced a class of rich men. The lust | for wealth appears In recorded history to | have been the greatest evil that ever be- set the more refined and cultivated peo- pie and the exercise of 1t tho most damn ing to the people who came within the radius of Its influence. In fact. history proves the least desirsh,e persons in Q community have been the rich.
 The Anglo-Saxon civilization has pro- | gressed to that poirt-tho game as be- longed 10 othar civilisations-namely. where great wealth aocumulates in tho I hands of singic individuals. That the amassing of wealth has become lust needs no proof. What tho result will be | opens a wide field of speculation. In this that of . constitutional monarchy and connection the two forms of government