The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-05
Too Much

: Philadelphia Bulletin: Greece is suY.
fering from exactly the same form Of
1ncompetency that a monarchial form
OF government not quite certain of its
hold on the people is l. md to undergo.
This offering of the Greek army, which
has baen confined to the ''princes' OF the
reignins house, is ever with the mea-
ger enlightenment we have as to its
movements plainly in the hands of gro
tesque in2ompetents. Indeed. there can
pe no more conclusive evidence of the
burlesque incapacity Of Prince Con-
stantlne himself han the derisive ego
ttsm thrust into the kilograms he has
thus fars sent to his papa, the king. AS
II the whole civilized world we're inter-
ested In his personal: movements he in
terpolates in a Geographic report of the
conduct of the army for a day. II was
under fire i'll the front rank" IT have
fought myself, and Nicholas" This is
one of the needs of a tottering dynasty
to impress the people that royalty earns
Its keep.
The same thing was seen during the
German war, when praises to Coo for
the slaugh er OF 10000 French were
mingled with raptures over '.Our
Fritz" Whose fundamentally in the
Was ~ SIT dEOQnQ Won
Moltke's headquarters, or to show him
seit 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
D1V1nSf t0 StrtLo mn tho
flank of the main Russian army under
~Bagration, while he himself held it in
front. The addle headed Jerome, be-
cause he happened to be the tuppenny
KING OF Westphalia, declined to receive
the order, even in h form of .. sugges
ton from the conqueror Of Auerstadt,
Ihe 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, 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 and sent the fighting men into
the Belgo-British ranks, which We're at
that time packing for q retreat.
1t might be supposed that with all
Greece heart and soul in the fray, the
poor creature. King George, inc his still
more pitiful creatures of sons, would
efface themselves, and let some of the
dashing and resourceful officers who
have shown their mettle in other parts
OF the seat Of war make the best of the
high courage and dauntless purpose of
the embattled Greeks. For 1t will be
noted that nowhere except where the
kings sons have been present have the
Greeks lost an incl of territory. With
the loss of Larlssa, and h retreat to
Pharsalia, it 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 II 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, il. 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 Pnarsalia-ominous name
to the Greek capital.