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

P~hiladelphia Bulletin: Greece Is SUI.
fering from exactly the same form OF
lncoinpeteDcy that n monarchial form
or government not quite certain OF its
hold on the people Is | md to undergo.
The officering OF the Greek army, which
mas been confined 10 the princes of the
reigning house, is even with the mea-
ger enlightenment we have as to it's
movements plainly in the hands Of gro
tesque Incompetence. Ir c 4, there can
De no more conclusive , idence Of the
buriesque tncapacity of Prince Con-
stantine himself than the derisive ego
tfsm thrust into the kilograms he has
thus Tar sent to his papa, the king. AS
II the whole civilized world were inter-
ested In his personal movements, h in
terpolates in a telegraphlc report OF the
conduct Of the army for a day, II was
under fire in the front rank II have
Fought myself, and Nicholas" This is
Il or the needs OK a tottcr!ng dynasty
to impress h people that royalty earns
It's keep.
The same thing was seen during the
German war, when praises TO God for
the slaugh .er Of 10000 French were
mingled with raptures over "Our
tritZ.' whose fundamentally In the
campaign was to sit around Won
Moltke's headquarters, OF to show him
self TO the passing soldiery. The great
Napoleon himself brought ruin upon his
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 10 Moscow into ruin
by refusing to accept the order Of the
Incompatible Davoust to strike on the
flank 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
king OF WestphaIia, declined to receive
the order. wen In the form Of a sugges-
ton from the conqueror OF Auerstadt.
The result vas hat the main Russian
army escaped, and compelled Napoleon
to follow. involving two months cam
paign, with winter lying in wait. The
same Jerome, pranking as the COM
mander OF a division, lost the battle OF
Waterloo by pottering around the farm
OF ~Hougoumont during the seven hours
that the battle lasted, when a compe-
tent lieutenant would have surrounded
the farm n sent the fighting men into
""N DNibNpiiNiEn iduhs, WHICH were III
that 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 var make the best OF the
high courage and dauntless purpose OF
the embattled Greeks. For II Will be
noted that nowhere except where the
kings sons have been present have the
Greeks lost an inch of territory. With
the loss OF Larissa, and the retreat to
Pharsalia, II is impossible, indeed, use
less, TO speculate upon what may follow
further on. The wretched king, unlike
h sultan. dare moi recall his paItry
sons 70 take their place among the
women make lint, while real COM
manders carry on the war. Disastrous
as the results to the main Greek army
have been. stin worse seems 10 be in
store, IL. as the dispatches say, Osman
Pasha withdraws the useless Turkish
legions in Epirus and masses them In
the c%oncentric valleys leading through
the plains of Pharsalia-ominous name
to the Greek capital.