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lennium, as has the whole continent of America for decades 

 or centuries, and as have France, Portugal, and China in more 

 recent days. 



But the tenacious and utterly unscrupulous efforts that 

 the descendants of a Napoleon, a Carlos, and a Dowager Chi- 

 nese queen have made, backed often also in secret by the regal 

 partisans of other nationahties, to upset at any cost of blood 

 and treasure the recognized voice of a large majority of the 

 peoples of these nationalities, are proof that regal rule lives only 

 by secret intrigue against the happiness and progress of a 

 people. 



Of all the changes proceeding in this day of small things 

 that we now live amid, none possibly are fraught with more 

 portentous omen than the intense popular clamor for reduc- 

 tion and ultimate breaking up of the bloated armies and navies 

 of the "civilized" nations. These are bolstered up, subsidized, 

 and clamored for by the regal contingents who require "bil- 

 lets" for their favorites and their dependents, but who are 

 utterly deaf to the wail of needy and starving ones in their 

 midst. For their trade of human butchering, and their dang- 

 ling of the sword that is the butcher's ensign, alike conspire 

 to deaden all human love and sympathy, while in critical 

 moments of some popular appeal such only serve to inflame 

 and to intensify human strife. The sane nations of the future 

 will be those who shall unite in a firm pact to subdue and 

 exterminate such wasteful, unholy, and unreligious repre- 

 sentatives. 



Evolving man, with each added century, millennium, and 

 multimillennium of scientific wisdom, has slowly but surely 

 risen to high and still higher heights of religious proenvir- 

 onment. From primitive ancestral and animistic worship, 

 to worship of the spirits of dead ancestors or of supposed flit- 

 ting night spirits, from this to a worship of the heavenly bodies 

 as associated with earthly spirits, then to preeminent recog- 

 nition of the sun as a universal cosmic power, later to*a link- 

 ing on of a great spiritual fatherly Power as associated with 

 but superior to such solar beauty, next to a close earthly con- 



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