The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-18
WAR SEEMS ENDLESS.
Struggle In Progress Since the World
Began.

Struggle In Progress Since the World
Began.
Since the first foreigner, in the per-
son of a Dutchman. landed on the
Island of Sumatra, in 1449, the native
Achinese have combated the usurping
of their land foot by foot. In the be-
ginning of the present century the ISL
and came into British hands, but was
soon restored to Holland. Then again
the Achinese took up arms against
the Dutch invaders. Although, says
Answers, when the Dutch can get the
Achinese out In the open they invarl-
| ably beat them, the war continues In
a desultory manner to-day. and will
only end when the last native of SUI
matra has been killed in action. The
number of Achiese killed has never
been known, but the war has been a
very serious drain ON the manhood of
Holland, and many of her best SOL
diers were killed between the years
1873 and 1879, when the struggle was
very bitter.
Since 1904, when the Persians sur
rendered Armenia to Turkey, the
numerous Sultans of Turkey have
never sheathed their swords in regard
to the former country save in the
flesh of the inhabitants. True, every
now and again, when matters are
very slow in European politics, some
country becomes righteously indig-
/ nant. and a concert of Europe is called
/ and n note sent to the Sultan. Still the
! fighting goes on-or, rather, the butch
ering
/ At the beginning of the present
century Algers finally passed into
the hands of france. From that time
till the present the French nation has
always kept an army corps Of not less
than fifty-four thousand French
troops garrisoned there, to fight the
Arabs who infest the hinterland and
raid French possessions at least once
year. Chief among these are the
Touaregs, who fight with one half Of
their faces masked, and fight always
to the death or victory. Never once
has a Touareg been taken alive.
d.
beaten they flee to the desert, where
no trained army can follow them.
The RiffianS who are the scOurge Of
Morocco, resemble the Touaregs, In
that they also take and give no quar-
ter, but, instead of living in the heart
of the Sahara, they fight from their
mountain fortresSes and keep the Sui
tan of Morocco in continual dread. To
keep his soldiers in good fettle the
Sultan every year gives at least three
months fighting 10 them by picking
a quarrel with one of the feudal hold
ers of the numerous semi-brigand
strongholds
From the day in 1920 when the first
Puritan settlers from England landed
on American soil intermittent war has
been wagcd by the whites in the Uni
ted States against the original Indian
population Gradually the Cherokees
Choctaws. Greeks and Sioux have
been driven further and further back,
till to-day but comparative few re-
main. Yet even now the government
deems ii advisable to keep a body of
picked troops to guard the In lian ter
ritOry, for every now and again tie
old scalping spirit breaks out in some
young brave. and dire would lie the
result We're he not subdued before
others could gather to follow him on
the warpath.
The Northwest mounted police of
Canada were raised. and are kept, for
like purpose; and although their
work is not so arduous as that of their
American doubtless yet even they are
generally busy.
No one knows when the first blood
feud began in Corsica, or when the
first brigand set up shop Nor can any
one tell when the last will put up his
shutters. Even in the time of the Ro-
mans the inhabitants were too busy
fighting one another to care whether
a foreign garrison was left on the ISL
and or not, But not a day gees by
without several lives being sacrificed
in the cause of some vendetta; and as
each life means the sacrifice in atone
ment of at least two more there is
to-day hardly one Corsican whose life
Is not wanted by a fellow countryman,
and who, in running away, is not al
SO chasing some other person.-N. Y.
World