To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Day News,"
Sm,—If Professor Dealey has been correctly reported in the statement attributed to him - that "monarchies emphasize the rule and welfare of a comparatively small class, to the practical neglect of the masses," it is to be presumed that he is speaking of a bygone age* when that was the case, and that his dictum does not apply to present day monarchies? For if does, his statement is a gross libel on Great Britain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There is no country in the world where liberty in its true meaning is more the birthright of every individual born than within the realms of the five countries named, and as for education, all of the existing republics, with the exception of Switzerland, rank far below such countries as Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Holland. These countries have kings with far less powers than presidents of republics, and it may be said of their kings that they are mere figurehegds ornamenting a democratic machine.
The writer is not a monarchist per se but likes to look, facts in the face, and the facts are that, always with the exception of Switzerland, the republican form of government as at present exemplified by the United States and many other countries favours class government in a more glaring manner than_ is the case in any of the monarchies named above.
I am, ete., Gorpius Nietsen.
Kuangtung, March 28.
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