New-York tribune., 1905-06-18
THRONES GO 1-BEGGING.
Princes Prefer Life Without the
Worries of Rulership.

d,,cive TO the maintenance of the prestige which
Is the principal foundation on which they rest
It serves to cheaper monarchy as a form OF
government in the eyes Of the people, ana uhcer
the circumstances it is probable that pressure
will be quietly brought to bear on King Oscar
by his fellow soveregns to induce him to yield
so far to the demands of the Norwegians as
to permit the election Of one Of his grandsons
as ruler of Norway In his stead. If he declines
to accede to these views, and persists in refus-
'ng to recognize either the Independence of the
Norwegians or their right to king Of their
own. the world will be treated more to the
strange spectacle of a crown being hawked
about through the length and breadth of Eu-
rope and spurned by every one In turn. For
it is difficult to understand where an eligible
candidate could be found, outside of the Berna-
dotte dynasty. There IS much jealousy
among the great powers that it is evident that
no near kinsman of any of the principal mon
archs would be acceptable to the others, and,
moreover, there is not court in the Old World
that would relish the notion of affronting the
royal family of Sweden or of giving encour-
agement to revolutionary nationalist move
mehts by accepting throne that owes its ex-
istence to a rebellion against Oscar IL
The re1gning house of Denmark is too closely
Aiheo py Ties OF blood and of friendship to that
OF Sweden-the Crown Princess of Denmark
being the only child of the late King of Sweden
to admit of any of it's princes becoming ruler
OF norway in defiance of King Oscars wishes:
and Prince Louis Bonaparte, whose name has
been put forward, is too much identified with
RUSSIA, In whose army he has been serving for
30 many years. to render It conceivable that bis
presence on the throne at Christfania would b.
tolerated for one moment by GERMANY. sweden
ana Great Britain, all Of whom are eouaIlv in
'e'esteo In preventing the Gar from obtaining
IN open port On the Atlantic. And Tromsoe one
OF the most northerly Of Norwegian towns. with
ieeht haroor on the Atlantic lies within
Ans than twenty miles of the border line y,
E1nAno-that Is to say, of Russa-and would ~
0ufse. De soon available for Muscovfte use
niiiitAry ana naval. as well commercial were
LOUIS Napoleon. the Russian cavalry general r.
become King of Norway
Ihe situation is not unlike that which nre-
vuled after the Belgian revolution IN 1Sen
"nen les braves Belges'' rose against their
Dutch King, cut themselves adrift from HoI
Ano and began looking for a monarch of their
o"h ihe crown was rendered to a considera bIe
noinoer OF princes. among others to the late Duc
o' Nehours. all of whom refused 1t with so
ponipotuoe and even contempt that one
a the popular French caricaturists or tho 40,
vas moved to the publication of a cartoon renra
eentng prosperous looking Partisan bourgeois
waving Ills hoile In the morning his b1si-
ness and fnstructing his "bonne" that oir onv
one calls while out to tender me the Rel
CLAN crown. for the love God say that NV busi-
ness engagements will not permit me tn accent
IT, Ii was not until after many months-iD
oeed, nearly year late-that Prince Teono,d
OF Saxe-Coburg, widower of Princess Charlotte
OF England, allowed himself to be induced to
accept the crown. and thereupon duly
elected his reign being begun by an invasion OF
his dominions by the Dutch which was renuIsed
only with the assistance of King Louis PhfIinna
OF France, whose daughter, Louise IeonoId
thereupon married. Nor was II until consider
ably afterward that Austria, Prussia and Russia
consented to recognize kingdom that owed its
existence to nationalist revolution against the
monarch whom they insisted was the 1awfu,
ruler not only of Holland, but also of the Iatter,s
rebeious Belgian provinces
King Leopold had already previously declined
the throne Of Greece, to which he had heen
elected by the people at Athens shortly after
the termination of their war of independence
which resulted In their liberation from Turkish
thraldom- And after being offered without sue
cess to number of other princes In turn Il
was finally accepted, not without considerable
hesitation. by Otto of Bavaria who reigned for
number OF years at Athens before finally be-
ing deposed and exiled by his turbulent sub
jects. The Hellenic throne thereupou remained
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