The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-18
THE VEyATIONS OF THIS WORLD OF OURS,
Continued from Page IL

the Turkish yoke. It's governmen
has been a scandal for corruption ant
inefficiency. It's industrial develop
ment has been rather Asiatic thai
European, in spite of the introduction
of all such modern improvements a!
locomotives and American reapers. L
has disappointed the hopes of it!
friends, and that especially in the fail
ure to establish the stability of rule
Two dynasties. sprung from the two
"liberators" of the country, have con
tested the right to reign, each bidding
for the support of outside powers, one
leaning on Vienna and the other OIL
st. Petersburg.
The Murder of the King and Queen
The recent murder of the king and
queen by an organized body of con.
spirators is only the last chapter in a
long and shameful story of intrigues,
palace revolutions, squabbles between
the two dynasties and quarrels with
in each of them. 1t would need the
caustic pen of a Carlyle to do justice
to the unsavory subject. The best
that can be said for the recent MUIR
der is that things appear to have
reached the lowest depth in the Bel
grade palace before it occurred. A
foolish king had come under the in
fluence of a wife older and more capa-
bic than himself, but alleged to have
been destitute of the womanly virtues.
The royal pair provoked revolution
by the coup d'etat of a few months
back, when the king proclaimed the
practical abolition of the constitution
and the assumption of absolute gov
ernment.
That the people should rise against
that usurpation was to be expected.
But why not rise with the dignity
which BELTS such resistance? Why
not rise as did the English against
1? "The enemy of English
liberty says Macaulay, "was not
stabbed in the back by men who
fawned and f1attered him to his face
He was defeated on fields of strick-
en- battle, arraigned, tried, condemn
ed and executed in the face of the civ
liZed world"
It is Well to DisbeIieve Reports
Against Russia Telegraphed From
London.
The world cries out for the punish
nent of the murderers by the new
ling. But who can tell how far he
vas an accomplice before the fact in
heir black deed? A suspicion of this
Gems to be entertained by the gov
of Europe generally, as is
hown by their orders to their repre-
entatives to withdraw from the capi-
al for time. And it is whispered
hat the deed had the sanction of
sussia, whose wishes will be more
egarded by the new king than those
the Austrian empire. 1t is true that
.ussia has been taking very lively
interest in Servian matters, but it is
rell to disbelieve anything to the dis
dvantage of Russia which is tele-
raphed us from either London or vi
ma. The newsmongers of both
lose cities are very much engaged in
lacken1ng Russia at present.
The Bessarabia Massacre.
The massacre of the Jews in Bes-
arabia, not by Russians, although
ithin Russian territory, continues to
5itate the Jewish world. 1t would be
our credit if the Christian world
ok half so much interest in the far
ore extensive massacres of Mace
)nians which have been perpetrated
Id are still happening under Turkish =
lie every week. Between the hap
snings in Servia, and the Indifference
the Christian powers, almost moth
6 is now said of them.
Tho attacks nf tbn nndOr1
the Russian authorities, backed up
7 reports from Vienna, where the
'ws control and even edit the news
lpers, have brought out a denial
hich deserves to be credited. It was
avely charged that the whole mas
ere was planned by the Russian
mister of the interior, and that when
was 1mportuned by the local au-
critics for permission to stop the
assacre in Bessarabia which would
Vt apply equally to a score of Rus
an cities, and in these there have
en no disturbances. The minister [
clares it the very reverse of the
nth. He telegraphed an Injunction
put down the massacre by any use
force that might be necessary, al 4
ough he was not asked to do so by
ybody.
What Is the World Coming To? 4
But what is the world coming to?
hat, especially, is the prospect of so
lch of it as calls itself Christian 4
d civilized? Are we drifting back
to pagan barbarism? The violent =
tired of religion, which has taken
ssession of the French republic, and 4
e equally violent hatred of that So y
Il order which has grown up under 4
ristian influences among the poorer 4
lsses in France, Germany, Belgium
d Italy, are ominous signs. Athe- 9
n, anarchism and socialism of the 4
Volutionary type are growing forces )
Europe. The recent German elec- 9
ms, with the return of probably d
enty-seVen Socialists to the Reich ,
Ig, instead of the four who sat there Y
It year, is not prophetic of peace. G
means that the party which regards =
tn a positive hatred the institutions =
our present social order have be- G
ne the ruling element in several of <
German cities, and are spread y
their influence even among the .
m laborers and the smaller cul. G