The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-18
9ai1Y Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
THE TRAGEDY OF THAT PEOPLE.

All life is luck and chance. Time.
which embraces all life, is an amending
tragedy. From the moment that the
curtain Of creation was rung up, reveal
ing our Insignificant globe, half light
and half shadow, swinging impoteluy
In space. the tragedy Of it has gone Oh
uninterruptedly. From the hour of the
trlboiltes' paieozoic existence 10 the
birth in the Garden, and enshrouding
all the unhappy generations which
have followed the fall of the second
son born to earth beneath the hand Of
his elder brother. it has been life prey
ing upon life and brother numbering
brother-one unremitting tragedy. The
very green which robes the world
around with renewing life springs from
death and TO death returns. Birds and
flowers and all that delights life's high
est manifesto ton, are stamped with the
seal Of death and will be until the cur
tain finally goes down behind expiring
foctlights and the play ends in cold OBJ
stIuctiOn.
The comedies Of this human stage are
but side farces. by-plays of the wings,
even when the parts essayed are by
nation or a generation.
The English people are making such
a play now. But it is not laughable.
For all but themselves it is a tragedy
of tears On Saturday last it was an
nouDced that the son C. the Sultan.
Abdul Hanid. the Asiatic barbarian.
would honor Queen Victoria's jubilee
with his presence. The English people
grow red in the face with a pretended
indignation, and their press declares
that II cannot be. One good turn de-
serves anOtheri Why not? When the
rather OF this son was helping on the
tragedy Of life a few months ago by
numbering Christians by the thousand.
by disembowcling innocent babes. by
outraging the Sanctity of motherhood
and by violating the virtue of maiden
hood, these same English people by a |
word could have stopped the inhuman
butchery. Later, when the Christian |
people of Crete appealed to their Greek |
brothers to rescue them from the intoi- |
cradle outrages being daily perpetrated |
ON them by this same red-handed as
sassin OF the Bosphorus, England sent |
her grear navy of destructive engines |
into the ports of Greece with threats of |
destruction and humiliation if they but
dared respond TO their neighbor's cry |
for Succcr. With such menace Eng
land cowed Christian Greece until the
naievolent and bloOd-brUtal Turk could |
Get his murderous hordes together and |
TURN them loose upon the classical |
grounds of the mother Of civilization.
] me Princess of Wales, she whose hus-
bard will soon wear the crown of these
English people, appealed in the name of |
heaven and humanity, to the rulers of |
her country, but in vain, to stay their
hands, but they would not. Now. for
ell this good will, active sympathy and
effective work 10 his behalf. the Sultan
proposes. 20 honor this British peoples
crown and their Queen. Hence the
pharisaical and hypocritical howl from
the London press on Saturday. Know
Ing no god but gold, acknowledging no
creed but greed, this people whose gov
eminent are even now plotting the
overthrow of a peaceful and happy peo-
pie in far-off South Africa, a people
who for n hundred years have lived
and loved and woTshipped God with a
singleness of ieart. 10 talk about being
outraged by the presence of the son Of
the assassin whose bloody hands they
have teen unholdinS, whose dagger
hey have held and pointed.
Verify this world is a stage and its
play tragedy.