Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-16
MARK AND MONARCHY
Celebrated Humorist Says We Are Sure
 to Have King Some Day

Mark Twain in his autobiography dis cusses Secretary Root s now famous speech on the standardization of the gov ernment. He says as regards the com ing American monarchy:
 Human nature being what if is. l suppose we must expect to drift into monarchy by and by. It is saddening thought. but we cannot change our na- ture; we are all alike, we human be ings; and in our blood and bone, and irradieable, We carry the seeds out of which monarehies and aristoeraeies are grown; worship of gauds, titles, distine tions, power. We have to worship these born so, and we cannot help it. We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be con tent. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privileges, but privately we banker af- ter them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and daughter Sometimes we get a good man and worth the price, but we are ready to take him anyway, whether he be ripe or rotten, whether he be clean and de. cent, or merely a basket of noble and sacred and long descended offal. And when we get him the whole nation pub licly ehaffs and seOifs-and privately envies; and also is proud of the honor which has been conferred upon us. We run over our list of titled purchases every now and then, in the newspapers, and discuss them and earess them, and are thankful and happy.
 Like all the other nations, we worship money and the possessors of it-they being our aristOcracy, and we have to have one. We like to read about rich people in the papers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed They even leave out football or bullfght now and then to get room for all the particulars of how-according to the display heading -"Rieh Woman Fell Down Cellar Not Hurt" The falling down the eel lar is of no interest to us when the woman is not rich, but no rich woman can fall down cellar and we not yearn know all about it and wish it was us.
 Tn monarchy the people willingly and rejoicingly revere and take pride in their nobilities, and are not humiliated by the reflection that this humble and hearty homage gets no return but con tempt. Contempt does not shame them, they are used to it and they recognize that it is their proper due. We are all made like that. In Europe we easily and quickly learn to take that attitude toward the sovereigns and the aristoc- racies. Moreover, it has been observed that when we get the attitude we go on and exaggerate it, presently becoming more servile than the natives, and vain CT of it. The next step is to rail and scoff at republics and democracies. All of which is natural, for we have not ceased to be human beings by becoming Americans, and the human race was always intended to be governed by kingship, not by popular vote.
 I suppose we must expect that un- avoidable and irresistible circumstances will gradually take away the powers of the states and concentrate them in the central government, and that the repub- lie will then repeat the history of all time and become a monarchy; but l be- lieye that if we obstruct these eneroach- ments and steadily resist them the mon archy can be postponed for good while yet.-North American Review.