Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-09

piring Among the Near and
Tar Nations OF the Earth.
The protests against the pro-British
speech OF Theodore Roosevelt uttered by
the Egyptians at Cairo possess deeper sig
nificance than is usually accorded an ebu-
litlon Of nationalism. The protests voiced
the spirit now vivifying the greater part
Of the Mohammedan world. To a limited
degree it is the American spirit Of home
rule" SO often heard in protest against the
mercenary measures OF selfish legislators.
In the old world II is intensified by mon
archial tyranny and the exclusion Of the
people from participation I'm the making
Of laws for their own welfare. The awak
ening in nations hitherto regarded as pawns
for world powers centers in demands for
constitutional government. A constitution
is to them a charter OF liberty as dear as
the declaration of independence is to
Americans. No matter how limited the
concessions a constitution may grant, it
serves as wedge to split monarchial abso-
lutism. To appreciate the extent to which
the cry Of Cairo ~nationslism Families the
old world, note what is going on
China, the awakening giant Of the east, is
pledged to a constitution eight years hence.
Native India, in a ferment against alien
rule, has forced from Great Britain l~egisla-
tive concessions which make for home
rule. The exiled shah of Persia and the
prisoner of Salonika are examples OF the
royal conceit that both Persians and Turks
were unfit for constitutional government.
Both tyrants were forcibly shown the error
from power. Even in Russia, where abso-
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government has made distinct advances
through the legislative wisdom of the
Duma. Progress is necessarily slow. Inex-
p]erience encounters many pitfalls. The
grip or rulers, whether alien or native, is
ever tenacious. But the signs in the older
world, from the Nile to the Ganges, are
heGrtening to the hosts Of liberty in the
new world.
The rock-ribbed financial strength of
Great Britain and It's ability to bear the
additional taxes proposed by Chancellor
Lloyd-George is strikingly portrayed by
Frederic Austin Ogg in the American Re
view Of Reviews. LAS as matter of fact"
says the writer, Great Britain never pos
sessed elements of strength equal to those
Of today. A population of 10000, 900 in 1915
has increased to one of 10000 900. In 1916
the nations accumulated wealth was under
g, 900, COO; as late as 1886 it was only
f4,OO0,O 900. 900; in 1882, according to Mulhall, it
was IS, 100, 0 1000; today 1t is varlously esti-
mated at from fl2, 900, 900, 600 to fl5, 5000 900.
The yearly addition to this accumulated
wealth in 1915 was ESQ, OOO,O 600; today it is
600, 900, 600, or six times as much. The
total foreign investment of British subjects,
almost a negligible quantity 100 years ago,
is now estimated at e., 700, 900. 900, upon which
there is an annual income of not less than
f14O,OO0 600. During the last six years the
placement OF British capital in foreign
countries, largely suspended during the
previous decade, has been resumed on a
"stupendous scale, greatly to the improve
ment Of foreign trade, and distinctly to
the encouragement of public and private
thrift. At least E10O, OO0,OOO were invested
abroad in 1905. and approximately the same
amount in 1909. These are merely a few of
the more obvious evidences Of the financial
power Of the nation"
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The energetic opposition which the French
Catholics mean to offer to the educational
policy Of the French government was in
dictated in the speech which NJ. Grasseau,
the well-known professor Of the University
Of Lille, delivered in the Chamber the other
day. The government bill, he said, was a
measure Of respisals which tended to OPP
press the consciences of parents. In order
to justify this measure the reporter had
deprecated the instruction given by the re-
ligious orders. These professors Of the
ecoles libres were terrible rivals whom the
state had got rid Of solely by the drastic
device of exile. Their property has been
handed over to the liquidators, the nature
Of whose operations was now becoming
manifest. The attitude Of the Catholics
was legitimate, since they defended the
liberty Of the parent. In the name OF
what principle could the state fine and i'm
prison parents who acted in obedience to
their conscience? The will OF an entire
people could not render, just what was I'M
just. M, Grousseau added that not only
would he himself disobey the law were II
voted, but he would do what he could TO
induce a good many others TO disobey it.
The disobedience of an individual was an
offence, but disobedience on the part OF
100000 men was known as "a movement of
opinion" and might exercise it's influence
in Parliament. He and his friends intended
to arouse the Catholic youth all over
France in a campaign on behalf of truth
and justice until the iniquity consecrated
by the law had been redressed. The ma
jority might Cypress the Catholics. but
could never enslave them.
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Fear OF violent death at the hands OF
some enemy so noticeable in Abdul Hamid
while sultan of Turkey has become a
mania since his forcible retirement from
public life. AS the elect of Allah occupy
ing the Yildiz Kiosk scores of faithful
servitors guarded his person from violence
leaving only the poison route from the
kitchen the main source OF alarm. Al
food brought to him there was tested for
dangerous ingredients before reaching tbs
royal palate. Within the bounds 10 his
palace prison at Saloinka the deposed sui.
tan has neither guard nor cook OF his OWL
selection, consequently his fear Of violent
death is painfully acute. He is living In
daily terror of assassination. He is said
to have shrieked for help at the sight OF
his little son, Abdur Fahim. with a toy
pistOl in his hand. A ma ssipP shin Is q