Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-29
Too Much ROYALTY.

~h!lauelphla Bulletin: Greece Is suf-
fering from exactly the same form of
incompetency that a monarchial form
or government not quite certain of its
y on the people is / md to undergo.
The officerlng of the Greek army. which
mas been confined 10 the princes of the
reignlng house, is even with the mea-
ger enlightenment we have as to it's
movements plainly in the hands of gro
tesque incompetents. Indeed there can
De no more conclusive evidence of the
buriesque incapacity of Prince Con-
stantine himself than the derisive ego
tlsm thrust into the kilograms he has
thus far sent TO his papa, the king. AS
II the whole civilized world were inter-
ested in his personal movements, he in
terpolates in a telegraphic report Of the
conduct of h army for a day, IT was
under fire IN the front rank II have
fought myself. and Nicholas" This is
OF the needs of a lettering dynasty
TO impress the people that royalty earns
its keep.
The same thing was seen during the
German war, when praises to God for
the slaugh er of 20, 1000 French were
mingled with raptures over "Our
Fritz whose instrumentality in the
campaign was to SIT around Von
Moltke's headquarters. or to show HIM
self TO the passing soldiery. The great
Napoleon himself brought ruin upon his
cause by intrusting the commands of
his armies to his utterly incompetent
and ridiculous brothers. Joseph and Je-
rome 1t was the ineffable Jerome who
turned the march TO Moscow into ruin
by refusing to accept the order Of the
Incompatible DaVoust to strike on the
Hank OF the main Russian army under
Bagration, while he himself held 1t in
front. The addle headed Jerome, be-
cause he happened to be the tuppenny
XII of Westphalia, declined to receive
the order, even In the form of a sugges-
ton from the of Auerstadt.
The result was that the main Russian
army escaped, and compelled Napoleon
TO follow, involving two months cam
paign, with winter lying in wait. The
same Jerome, %pranklng as the COM
n OF a division, lost the battle OF
Waterloo by pottering around the farm
or Hougoumont during the seven hours
that the battle lasted, when a compe-
tent lieutenant would have surrounded
the farm and sent the fighting men into
the Belgo-British ranks, which were at
tnat time packing for a retreat.
1t might be supposed that with all
Greece heart and soul in the fray, the
poor creature, King George, and his still
more pitiful creatures OF sons, would
efface themselves, and let some of the
dashing and resourceful officers who
nave shown their mettle in other parts
OF the seat Of war make the best of the
hig courage n dauntless purpose of
the embattled Greeks. For II Will be
noted that nowhere except where the
King $ sons have been present have the
Greeks lost an inch of territory. With
the loss of Larlssa, and the retreat to
Pharsalia, II is impossible, indeed, use
less, to speculate upon what may follow
further on. The wretched king, unlike
the sultan, dare not recall his paltry
sons TO take their place among the
women n make lint, while real COM
manders carry on the war. Disastrous
as the results to the main Greek army
have been, still worse seems to be in
store, If, as the dispatches say, Osman
Pasha withdraws the useless Turkish
legions in EpiruS and masses them in
the concentric valleys leading through
the plains of Pharsalia-ominous name
to the Greek capital.