The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-09
TnE sExvIAN WAR.
spcrugatisns About the Result and fhc
Consequences.

.. L. WOTlu.'
War has begun. Like Charles Albert
In 1913, Prince Milan assumes the often
siye against superior force, and marches
on Turkish soil. Like that Inflated
Prince. he relies upon the neutrality OF
Europe, the alliances Of race and or Ian
yuage. and an unsubdued rebellion in
the territory of his opponent. But Tor
Marshal Radetzky, Italy might in 1S49
have helped herself and become united
under the father instead OF the son.
Charles Albert had u round year OF vic
tory, and camped In an angle OF the
Quadrilaterai before defeat was fol-
lowed by abdioation. Equal success
may await Prince Milan in the opening
Of the coming contest, and unless the
Turkish army, after losing in Hussein
Avni Pasha its best soldier, supplies his
place by a Radetzky, final and complete
success may await the Seryian leader.
Such success lies as little within the pur-
poses of Russia, the secret ally, as OF
Austria. the secret opponent OF Servia,
but il will be singular illustration OF
the futile efforts European statecraft
has made TO use for its own purposes
the aiiinities OF race, il this war ends
by placing below the Danube strong
ScIave power. as the aid OF France to
Italy ended in the consolidation OF
great rival in the supremacy of the
Latin race.
With dreams and hopes of new Ser
bian empire, the Serbian troops have
begun their march. Small chance exists
that they will be realized. The cam
paign OF the coming summer is more
likely to be modelled on the defeat of
l849 than the triumphs of 1859. Turkey
is neither vigorous nor a strong power,
but she possesses excellent lighting
material and a strange persistence under
defeat. Her troops will be defeated
Her generals will be pushed from point
to point The fortune, the accidents and
the events of war will be against her
So they were in the long fight with
Mehemet Ali, in Crete, in Albania and
in the Serbian campaigns of this gem
GRAFTON. But new troops will be poured
in, isolated fortresses will be held, as
Niosic has been held for year past. as
little nameless island in the Danube
was held in the fall of 1853, as
Athens was held in the Greek revolu-
ton. as Acre was held in the opening
years of the century. The annoyance
Of guerilla warfare will be trans
ferred from the TANKS Of the Turkish
army to those Of the invading force.
Men and material will be exhausted on
both sides, but the Turkish soldiery will
keep stolidly at its work without shoes,
without clothes, almost without rations.
when the Servian militia has begun to
turn its eyes to its rotting harvests and
It's empty houses. And when this sum
mer has gone ineffectiveiy by and an
other has come. and, it may be. gone
it will byfound that the Turk still holds
the territory with which he began. In
some such fashion will this war drag it
self to a useless and unless the sudden
appearance of military genius gives TO
one side or the other browning advan-
gage.
IL the allied Sclaves push their column
to the Balkan range, we shall see Eng
land interfering to prevent the dismem--
berment of Turkey, as she interfered
after the battle Of Nisbin to prevent the
foundation of an Egyptian army. Sue
cess for the Turkish arms will be equally
certain to precipitate intervention from
the North. Meanwhile we may look
forward, during months to come, to the
dreary and contradictory reports OF the
past eighteen months, on a wider scale
and with more bloody results.
White duck pants look well and are
fashionable, but the trouble is a man
must always be looking around after a
napkin if he wears them. You can't
xvinA the least hit pf dirt off yOur