UTTERANCES OF AMERICAN PAPERS.
By Editor
PROPHECY in the Word of God indicates that this nation will become imperial in purpose and action, if not in name. Here are utterances from three American newspapers, which we give without comment:— "For a long time thinking people who have large commercial interests have felt unsafe with our present form of government. Now is a good time to do away with our obsolete Constitution, and adopt a form of government that will be logical, with expansion ideas, and will give ample protection to capital. "A constitutional monarchy is probably the most desirable plan that we could now adopt. Everything is ripe for the change. We take it that the great farming interests of our land will readily adapt themselves to the change. The farmer is a great lover of law and order, and anti-monarchy is largely the expression of French revolutionary ideas suggested by hot-headed theorists. "We believe that history and experience have proven beyond cavil that a republican form of government can not subsist beyond a certain stage. That as soon as a people become rich, strong, and great, the republic droops and dies. We believe this is so of necessity and not by chance. We believe that there is not a single case of record where the masses of a great nation possessed the intelligence to initiate laws, and were intelligent enough to compel the enforcement of such good laws as they might pass. "It would seem as if science teaches that men are created to follow their masters—the inspired minds of the world. History shows that a king must be and is found in every nation to guide its people in every great crisis. Neither is the change to be dreaded or looked forward to with foreboding. While we are in fact largely under the conditions of a monarchy, we have the evils without the benefits of the same."—Des Moines (Iowa) Globe. "Fate has decreed for us a destiny in which an imperial executive free from the restraints of a written constitution will govern the Colonies according to his own ideas."—Army and Navy Journal of Washington, D. C. "It is folly to assert that the policy of this country shall be governed by absurd maxims uttered more than a hundred years ago. The greatest evil which now confronts us is the clamor about the old Declaration of Independence, to the effect that all men ought to be free and equal. This is merely generalization of the doctrines of Voltaire and the encyclopædists. "It is a dictum absolutely lacking foundation in history and incapable of syllogistic justification. It suited our purpose in 1776, when we were breaking away from the mother country, but it was only a bit of sublimated demagogism. To bring forward this Declaration in this year 1900 is as gross an absurdity as ever was practised, and an insult to the intelligence of the people."—Boston Investors' Review, of July 28.