El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-23
EDITORIAL VIE VS..
The finaloverthrow of auto
cfacy in Europe portends an
other phase in the political
progress of the World. You
ON HEREDITARY
GOVERNMENT.

L.
a- progress of the World. You
dpe know government OF the peO-
pie for the people, by the people may sound all right but
there were still many millions of inhabitants Earth
not at all in agreement with the proposition Even IN
the socaled republics not every of the citizens is
WINGED that popular is the best government
In Europe of course government by divine right was
the order of the day to the year 1914 With the
sception of Great Britain France, Italy and few other
smaller countries that part of the world personally
governed by three auocrats: the Gar of all RuSSaS
whose domains reached half of Europe and half
of ASIA and whose private wealth. poorly administrator
Welded him about forty million dollars yearly rent the
Kaiser of Germany, whose popular nickname of War
Lord he fully justified, byplunging humanity into stlug
gle in which sixty million men were finally engaged; and
m the Emperor of Austria whose ambitious motto
4Wstride est i8perde orb Gn;0ersO, L. AastriGs bus
eisa.ess Is to rule orer the achole lCorId
But that five years ago. for since then great things
have happened and the result of them the monarchca
form of government has been utterly discreted that
little Emmanuel ExKng of Portugal prefers to live
in London, the rent he somehow manages to receive
from Portugal rather than go back and the risk of
being down the his father and brother
Latest dispatches by cable say that the revou-
tionsts offered him back the of his kingdom, and
q his wise answer No, thanks!
Yes, many things have happened during the last five
years. The Little White Father the ruler nearly
two hundred million slaves kicked out of the high
place which he STOOD and when he taken to be Kill
led he did behave indeed like the poor dsgraceful thing
he was! What shame! The ruler many millions
could not stand and die like man. hehad to be carried
and tied post In the meantime the people, the
naO holiday PetrOgrad, carried
home the velvet of that peculiarly chair called I'M
peyial Throne helped themselves few pictures and
other works of art and in word stripped the Winter
Palace of these things which, though their property,
for after all it they that paid all of the Cars bills
had up to then been regarded sacred things
sde looked at in direct Instead Of the Rus
sian Emperor the at the head of Russia to-day is
former fugitive from justice, who four years ago
living in cheap lodging places in the East Sde New York
City his name is IrOtzky and he is making History.
In Germany, it is former tailor by name Ebert who
to be the of the hour. Just think of it. reader
tailor, pebeian workingman filling the post of Will
liam HohenzoeIn, Emperor King, and forth, fifty
titles more after the gamut created by the fancy of
junkerdom! After such proud monarch, such humble
subject Truly, from the sublime to the ridcue there
but STEP AS to the former kaiser he has turned
out to be nothing but cheap comedian for truly great
actor always knows how to fall Kaiser Caesar;
but what difference between Caesars end, when he
his face with the tnic not to Brtus striking
him, and the end of this poor specimen of German
AS to the former emperor of Austra-Hungary enough
to say that he is being sued by of the banks that
him money but of he cannot pay because not hav
ing taken due precautions as his cousin Wilhelm did, poor
Charles is bankrupt
Do all these events prove anythig? Yes that those
fools that yet believing in divine right and were
simple enough to have respect for any those drones
have had plenty of opportunity see that those mighty
emperors when the real test were found utterly
lacking in those qualities which essential to the re-
presentatyes of personal government physical and
raj courage They below the average subject of
theirs, and after all that there are still persons who
still attach any Importance to hereditary rulers these
persons could not be classed except real fools.