The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-21

ships. The wonder and admiration of all
who saw Them they carried the name
of the republic in embracing circles all
around the globe, and with it the glories
the beauties, and the benefits of govern
ment of the people, by the people, for the
people, the supremest message man has
ever sent to man.
Thus 1t was that monarchs and the up
holders of monarchy everywhere came to
hate US. The feeling was from their
point of view entirely natural. Our ever
increasing strength, our marvellous de-
velopment, our unprecedented prosper
ity the stability of our institutions, the
mildness and beneficence of our laws.
were menace to every throne for they
convinced the oppressed and the down
trodden of every land that for them
there was no hope. except in the appli-
cation of the great truth, that all men
are created equal and entitled to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Gladly would the powers and the prin-
cipalities have combined to crush us. but
1t was impracticab1e, a wilder adven-
ture than any ever undertaken Ky the
imaginary knight of Cervantes. and they
had the sense and sagacity not even to
harbor it in thought after the fatuous
failure of the Holly Alliance. With,
however, the calamity that overlook the
republic in its awful internal convulsion
came the opportunity of European royal
ty and royaiists to show the teeth that
would rend democracy, and grim was the
exhibition. Among them all there were
only two exceptions-the far-seeing Gar.
who ruled in the Icy north. and the wise
Queen who so recently closed her eyes
upon the world. An imperial usurper,
sitting on a throne reared on fraud, per-
jury, crime and blood, was held back
from forcible interference only by his
D1r..
erased In a dispatch words that would
have provoked on our part declaration
OF war. Loudly vaunte ed another states
man, still more eminent, that new ma
ton had been founded. while insolently
and mockingly the most influential organ
of public opinion. then known, proclaim
ed that 'the bubble of the American
republic had BURST Fierce and high ev-
erywhere rose and burned for four long
years the red lights of royalist rancor un-
til at last they sputtered into darkness.
Far away In the misty days succeed
ing the second war with England one
of the most illustrious of American
statesmen predicted that while Europe,
meaning monarchial Europe, then. hated
us, the time would come when hatred
would be succeeded by fear Have we
not in these opening years of the new
century the fulfllment of the prophesy
made in the early ones Of the last one?
Everywhere in all the nations of the old
world are the mouthpieces and organs
of monarchy chattering about the
American peril" Austrian editors in
spired of ministers, who In their policies
belong to the middle ages and not to
modern times, gibber about commercial
Zollvereins against our products and
manufactures, German writers and pub
licists fume and rant over the Monroe
doctrine, as If 1t were specially formul-
ated against the empire. forgetting that
1t was framed before the empire itself
was conceived in the brain of Bismarck
before the crossing of the Rhine the
surrender at Sedan, and the historic siege
of Paris. English Americaphobists shud-
der at the American Invasion, to them
a calamity far more dire than was the
Armada of Philip in the days of Eliza
beth, or the meditated descent of the
Cosican ogre In those of the third
George. Even our old friend. and prac-
tically ally at one time. Russia. be-
trays occasional tremors of trepidation,
not foreseeing that the nearer she APP
proaches to us in all the lines of ad-
vancement the greater is she destined
TO become. Russia, even half American
lied. would be the supreme dictator in
both Europe and Asia Yes, the era OF
American fear has indeed come in Eu-
rope. 1t was ushered in by the thunder
ing guns Of Manila and Santiago. and