The Washington herald., 1913-08-03
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on TWO Continents

tCopsnsht. Dia By A. D. Jscobson.)
The centenary of Waterloo IL approach.
ing. and in anticipation of 1t a suggestion
has been made in London papers that
the battlefield should be purchased by
the British and French nations and pre-
served as joint monument Of the valor
OF their dead and u fervently hope) the
! superior wisdom Of the living. / don't
know what the Belgisns may say to this.
Perhaps 1t might be arranged for them
to hold the place in trust for the two
| neighbors who "honored' what Is now
Belgium by making 1t their cockpit
But what about the Prussians? They
happen also to regard Waterloo as one
I'of their great national victories, and
surely not without reason! II England is
going to celebrate the centenary Of Wat
| erloo In conjunction with her quondam
| enemies she cannot, in decency, overlook
the share of her quondam allies in the
victory. In fact, there would be no Brit
ish victory to celebrate had it not been
for the timely arrival of the Prussians
| under Bluecher.
The most satisfactory way OF keeping
the occasion would be for French, Brl-
ish. and Prussians to meet on the field
and solemnly bury the hatchet- IL any
power in existence could draw the three
nations together for that purpose it would
be q thing worth doing. But apparently
! the French will have no burying of
hatchets between themselves and the
Prussians. Hence the less fuss made
over the centenary Of Waterloo the bet
ter. An Angio-Prussian celebration, with
the French not participating. would do
nothing but harm. as things are at pres
ent. An Anglo-French celebration with
the Prussians uninvited would be only a
degree less harmful. And, last but not
least why should France, as a nation, be
! asked to celebrate the Waterloo Of her
greatest soldier. though now she be a
republic! Drop the whole thing. The
whole plan Is harmful
The reason advanced by the Balkan al
| lies. under the leadership of Bulgaria, for
falling upon Turkey unawares, when the
empire was weakened by the war in Trip
| Ola highhanded proceeding on the part
| Of Italy II ever there was one in history
| was that the Christian world stood
| aghast at the terrible atrocities perpe-
trated by the Moslems against inoffensive
Christians dwelling In the domain of the
Crescent Moon" that the civilized na-
| tions should not and would not stand by
and permit Christian blood to be shed so
| wantonly. We know that the powers of
| Europe let the Balkan armies tear the
Ottoman empire to pieces: that is. until
| it appeared that Ferdinand. the "Czar"
| Of the Bulgars, had desires aud ambi-
| tons Of his own pertaining to the Dar-
danelles and the Bosphorus. when the
well-known Jealousy between the Lion
| and the Bear Immediately got the con
cert OF powers to work for peace and
| the saving of Constantinople. All this
| has been dwelt upon by me so often that
4 r naad reiterafa uhv Tmrkay has
been permitted to retain the key TO the
Levant.
But what Is the Christian world, which
STOOD aghast at the atrocities perpe-
trated by the Moslems," to think of the
| present doing on the Balkan peninsula,
| where Christian massacres Christian.
where Christian men violate Christian
| women. where Christian rulers have
| priests and hundreds OF men stood up
against a wall and shot dead like so
many mad dogs? 1t is with a shudder of
| disgust and horror that one reads the
| news OF what the Bulgars have been
| guilty. OF toward the Greeks and Serbs.
| their recent allies during that ''holy'
war agains" the enemy OF Christianity.
for his outrages toward Christians
Things must be in a terrible condition
when the King of the Hellens asks the
powers to interfere and stop the mas
sacres, when in a public letter he begs
the civilized world to take notice of what
Christian Is capable toward his Chris
tian brother. just because in the division
OF the spoils of the late war grasping
Bulgaria did not get all she asked in the
way OF additional territory.
What a spectacle for the non-Christian
nations, Is it a wonder that the late
| Mikado. when looking for a national
religion for his newly modernized en-
pire, rejected Christianity? Is it Won
der that the Moslems have nothing but
contempt for a religion that cannot keep
its own devotees from cutting each 9TH
er's throats over the division Of spoils
taken from the enemy of Christianity.
! because he ill-treated Christian subjects?
We are no apologists for the Turk or
his Koran teachings. but what the Mos
lens did at least had the excuse OF reli-
gious fanaticism. The masses are told
by the Sheik- ul-Islam and the dreadful
dervishes that 1t is the word OF Allah.
as given through Mohammed. his proph-
ct. that to kill the inhdels will assure
them an especially favored seat in para
disc and its houris. But what excuse is
there for Christians to murder Christians
in the civilized Europe OF the twentieth
century?
None, And the sooner the appeal of
King Constantine is granted, the sooner
such Christians are deprived of autonomy
and independence the better for man
kind and for the Christian religion.
A postman in Hartlepool. England. who
retired recently, has not achieved reg