Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-15
CENTENARY OF WATERLOO.

with the setting " the sun, June
Is. 1915, Napoleon was crushed on the
field Of Waterloo. his Regions Were
routed. scattered and flying be-
fore the merclless Prussian cavalry
Judged by It's immediate results
Waterloo WAS the most important 81
al Of the decisive battles OF the
worlds history. It ended the bloody
career Of a man whose power had be-
come 40 gfent that It was intoleraple
In The universe II was the world
mounting to the brain OF one man
who, according TO the episrnm OF
Victor Hugo, embarrassed God
The real career Of Napoleon be-
gan with the suppression OF the re-
volt Ia Paris twenty years earlier
with the skill of military genius
he placed his little force stfatogieally
and slaughtered the French merel-
lessiy-a mob that was the natural
ontprowth Of the French revolutlon'
lust NJ Napoleon WIS the outgrowth Of
the mob. The inspiration Of the reyo-
luton was the overthrow Of despotlc
feudalism. civil aud religious It In
stalled the guillotine. and heheaded
king and queen and destroyed thou
sands of others who represented the
classes enjoying special privileges un-
der The law
Mistaklng the abuses Of religion by
an ungodly priesthood for the leglti-
mate fruitage OF the religion Itself
the revolution passed decree abol-
ishing God aud establishing IN Ills
place the worship OF Reason az typi-
hed in eourtesan Thus the French
revolution sought TO stamp out both
law ana religion Naturally the mob
was the result The power Of the law,
Of organized society. seized upon Ma
poleon, the despot, as the natural IN
etrumcnt for the dethronement ofan-
arohy aud tho re-cstabllshmcnt Of
sanity ana sobriety
But from people drunk with
HiNDit IlNHNt NiiAii NRF't''N ~
came a nation drunk with blood I'M
I'll all Europe became one vast sham-
blos In the words Of William lellcry
Charming, Napoleon was man who
raised himself from obscurily 10 Il
throne. who changed the face of the
world, WHO made hlmscf felt through
powerful and civilized nations. who
sent the terror Of his maine across
aeus ana oceans, whose VIII WaH pro-
nounccd and feared as destiny whose
donatiyos were crowns, whose ante
chamber was thronRed with submits
sive princes, Who broke down the
awful barrier Of the Alps and made
them q highway and whose fame was
spread beyond tho boundaries Of civil
izatlou to the stenres OF the Cossaek
and The deserts Of the ARABIA man
who has left this record of himself
In history has taken out Of our hands
the question whether he shall De cali
cd great For twenty years he storm
"a over Europe ana parts Of Africa
and Asia, topping thrones as ne
marched and remakne national
boundary lines at his Will
But Napoleon served Gods pur-
pose he ended the almost universal
belief ia the rule Of the king hy di-
vine right instead OF by the viii Of
ahe people he placed former pest.
man on the throne OF Naples, aud a
sergeant on the throne OF sweden.
old rotten forms were brushed aside
by him. not because he sought re-
forms bpt because the institutions as
he fouAd Them interfcred with his
despotio will
But when the battle OF Waterloo
came the hour had struck foy ending
the anarchy OF Europe Intentionally
or otherwise, peasant told Napo-
leon that the ground between the
French and the british forces WAS
clear and even Ney was ordered TO
make his fatal cavalry charge. Be
fore coming within striking distance
Of weilinEton's army he had 10 pile
the deeply sunken Ohain road fun Of
his dead and dying hersemen over
whose bodies the remaining ranks
rode. Napoleon expected Grouehy
who did not come WELLINGTON eN-
pected Butcher with his $4,000 Prus'
slams They came.
Wellington said after The battle that