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bauohery of William IV and George IV ,
who immediately preceded Victoria ,
are but samples of the creatures who for
four hundred years had infested Europe
as sovereigns. By magnifying their
military genius and eliminating entirely
their personal life it has been possible to
make a few of them presentable enough
to be used for fixing the dates of the real
events of their reigns. With one ex
ception , every ruler in Europe today is
respectable or acknowledges that it is
respectable to appear so. This change
was not wrought by statutes but by the
force of character , influence and example
of Victoria and Louise. Upon nearly
every throne in Europe is found today
the descendants of these two noble
women. And with them has gone that
beauty of moral integrity that graced
for so many years the courts of England
and Denmark. To them the world owes
a greater debt than any glories of war
or extended empire.
No infidel , from Bruno to Ingersoll ,
over put the Christian church in such a
terrible light as have its own dignitaries
in this Chinese alt'air. There has never
been one iota of the Christian spirit of
charity and love exhibited. Not only is
the evidence daily growing that ignor
ance , bigotry , and audacity of the
missionaries caused the uprising , but
the church has demanded blood and
plunder. The unseemly scramble of
politicians for office and their wrath
when ousted is the only comparison to
the hunt after soft foreign missions and
the present disgraceful position of the
church. All utterances show that lack
of power is all that prevents a repetition
in China of the barbarities that have
always followed that power , in the
history of the church. Were the fol
lowers of Confucius leading an aggressive
proselyting campaign in this country
would there not be danger of a "native
uprising headed by the priests ? " Has
there nofe already been enough developed
to explain why the Chinese and Japanese
fail to appreciate the ' 'beauties of the
Christian religion ? ' ' With less than ten
per cent of our own people attendants at
ohuroh.with millions of actual unbeliev
ers in its very fundamental doctrines it
would appear that China might be left
for a while until the United States is
Christianized and the church turn its
attention for a season to the contempla
tion of the character of Christ instead of
its choir or the church debt.
The people are in favor of strong men
for the United States senate but the poli
ticians desire weak ones. Even the
; little state of Delaware , before it fell a
I prey to the dickering politicians of the
I republican brand had more influence in
the councils of our nation than the
[ whole territory west of the Missouri.
After the conservative men of all parties
rallied to the salvation of the state of
Nebraska , . and pulled the republican
party out of the populist slough of des
pond it is a little annoying to find the
politicians of that party now echoing
every little populistio yelp against men
who have had ability to build up for
themselves a business and a competency.
Men who have shown that they have
power and independence , are to be
sacrificed for some nondescript who will
barter his independence and the offices
at his command for the nomination. He
will afterwards cut in the United States
senate the same figure as a booby at a
country picnic. Men of the Quay and
Clark order , who buy and sell other
men , are a higher type than he who
barters his independence to a ring of
politicians that he may enjoy the
emoluments of an office. If the mercy
of the Almighty is capable of covering
the sins of the republican party it will
be because of their being at least the
defenders of the business interests of the
country. The party claims that by the
fiat of high tariff it built up the railroads
and all the giant industries of our nation.
That but for them the plains of Nebraska
today would be without the screech of
the locomotive or the whirr of the twine
binder. That the howl of the coyote
would today reverberate where we hear
the dying wail of the pop.
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