Daily Press And Dakotaian

MONARCHY'S DOOM.
The Wave of Republicanism that is Sweeping
Over Europe—The Spectre of Socialism.
Cor. New York Herald.
London, July 16, 1878.—The rumor that
after the eastern business has been settled
by the congress the socialist question will be
discussed, increases the interest with which
the meeting of the plenipotentiaries is regarded, especially if the assertion be true
that London is the headquarters of the socialists, and that on the Monday following
the attempted assassination the foreign office in Berlin received a letter, posted in
London the Saturday before, warning them
that the emperor and, if possible, Prince
Bismarck would be assassinated on the very
day that the attempt was made. There is
without doubt great perturbation among the
reigning families in Europe, who feel themselves helpless against the terrible peril that
may surround them, and know not whose
turn may come next. At any moment in
some back room, in an obscure London
street, a hand may be dipped into a ballot
box and the fatal lot drawn forth which consigns some other high personage to death.

THE WAVE OF SOCIAL DISTURBANCE.
The Pall Mall Gazette of this evening has
an interesting article upon this topic. Referring first to the increasing rapidity with
which impressions are now transmitted from
one cultivated country to another, especially
with business and financial affairs, the
writer says that as regards disaffection to
present social arrangements the case is the
same, and if, as may be feared, this current
flows from one great city to another, it may
be necessary to consider what chance there is
of its reaching England.

SOCIALIST CENTRES.
An idea which, under peculiar circumstances, obtained the mastery over the second city of Europe may again bring about
strange results. The dispersion of the Parisian communists, many of whom, notwithstanding the atrocities of which their fellows
are guilty, are well meaning enthusiasts,
has created so many centres of propagandism.
The German socialist is even more determined and, if the expression may be permitted, practical in his aims. A feeling which
affects at one and the same time considerable numbers of men in the American
cities, in Russia, in Copenhagen and in Berlin can scarcely be regarded as only a passing delusion.

IN BERLIN.
In the last named city there is, indeed, a
mob which has more than once shown how
ugly such a mob could be, and we have
long since been persuaded, and have more
than once expressed the belief, that nowhere
in the world are the elements of disturbance
so threatening and compact as in Berlin.
Paris sets people thinking again at the time
of the commune; but we are too apt to forget
that nearly all great cities contain the elements of riot as desperate as any that
history has recorded. Never has the
contrast between wealth and poverty or
between its results to the individual, been
more striking than in our time. This spectacle masses of poor men (such as are to be
found in Germany to-day) may brood upon
until they may be ready to make a dash for
the property denied to them, if only to relieve the monotony of existence by something more exciting than strong drink.

IN FRANCE
Perhaps France is on the whole least likely to be troubled in the near future; as
certainly it now appears, in spite of the
heavy taxation, to be most content of all
continental countries. Now that the rural
voters, who are anything rather than revolutionary, have begun to take an intelligent
interest in political matters, a check may at
any moment be put upon the extravagance
of agitation in Paris, Lyons or Marseilles

IN ENGLAND.
In England, as an American newspaper
took occasion to repeat rather exultingly the
other day, we relieve the discontents of poverty by a contribution of some £6,000,000 a
year; and the poor rate, while in some directions it fosters the existence of a hopelessly useless class, absolves us from the necessity
of dealing with a multitude of reckless
paupers. It is true, as has been caustically
said, that a man in this country can be born
for nothing, be doctored for nothing, and die
and be buried for nothing—having quietly
passed through the world entirely at the expense of other people, without any satisfaction, either to himself or to them; but even
with this lavish distribution of public and
private charity we should long since have
experienced grave difficulties in all likelihood, but for a large and continuous stream
of emigration. A population such as that of
England, so largely dependent for its means
of employment and subsistence on other
countries, may at any time be placed in a
more perilous position than that of France
where people own land and live by it.

DANGER AHEAD,
Hitherto we have been happily exempt
from social disturbance in spite of the
growth of the dangerous classes in some of
our great industrial centres, and at present
there is nothing to show who alone could
lead and direct these people share in the delusions with which they may be affected.
Rather the object of the more able is to follow such a programme as that put forward by
the national labor party in America, and,
as unsound as some of the planks in that
platform there is no intention to put it together by other than legal means. In short.
wherever the end proposed is clear and definite, the common sense of men teaches
them that it can be attained by sober and
well calculated steps; but when, as in the
case of theoretical communism, strong emotions are called in to supplement the deficiency of reason, there is no saying what might
happen at a period of general, deep and long
continued depression