Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-30
EVENING. NOV. 80. 1905.

TODAY has been observed more or
less throughout the United States as
day of thanksgiving and prayer with its
accompanying Hastings, theatre parties,
sc. Many doubtless entered into it witt
thankful and appreciatiye souls for the
continued prosperity and peace in our
land and for the fact that we have been
allowed so long to be spectators only OF
the trials and tribulatiOns which have
beset less favored nations. 1t may,
however. be safe to say that the larger
percentage regarded thanksgiving as Of
secondary importance, and had their
hearts fixed upon the sports and cheer
incident to the occasion. There Is
hardly country on the globe more ia
y,red than the United States of America.
Blessed in basket and store, with terri
tory stretching from perpetual SHOWS to
the tropics and its arms extending from
ocean to ocean, capable of growing
everything needed for the maintenance
of human beings, as we'll as those
which add to the luxury of existence, 1t
is justly regarded as the asylum OF all
nations. Its pOlyglott population is IN
creasing yearly, and with no cruel mill
tary requirements to bar industry, the
people thrive and increase in wealth, and
everyone can sit in peace under his own
vine and fig tree with none to
modest or make afraid. COntrasted
with all these blessings stand present
conditions in other nations, where, 10 use
a scriptured figure of speech, the seas
and waves are roaring, red flags Haunt
ing. rioters and insurrectiOnisis becOm
ing boIder and holder, thrones shaking
and the spirit of disorder and discon-
tent spreading irjm nation to nation.
Russia il now in the thrOes Of terrible
revolution, and no one can tell how long
the government will be able to hold in
check the h0rdes of frantic people
who are bent upon eliminating all law
and order. Another picture was flashed
UPON the screen a few days ago when
thousands of people in Vienna carrying
red flags Haunted these embems of an-
archy almost in the face of the King Ct
Austria. During the past week the
Spanish government was compelled to
send battleship to Cadiz in order to
protect the city from the incursions OF
reyIIutionists. The last OminOus scene
was that in the heart of London yester-
day when members of the royal family,
who were acting as benefactors, were
publicly insulted and jeered. As has
been said above, we are at present
merely spectators of such connections,
but who can tell how soon similar con-
ditions may beset ones own land? A
straw comes from the little town of Girls
field, Md, where mob yesterday COM
PEELED a judge to rescind his sentence,
threatening to lynch him in case he re-
fused. He was later kept prisoner in ii
public place, while the unlawful gather
ing terrorized the town. We are told
that the beginning of the year 1906 will
witness a strike on large scale and an
issue will be precipitated between en-
plOyers and employees which is to be a
fight to finish. Both sides are accumu-
laling war funds. and the contest is
naturally anticipated with alarm. No
one can tell what conditions will prevail
in the United States a year hence. 1t
is no, ed no serious transition is to take
place, but who can tell?