The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-28

are Austrian emperors. But they have
been Hapsburgs all the time.
Like them, the royal families OF most
European countries are imported for
eigncrs. But. unlike the Hapsburgs. the
rest have had national environments
which have nodded them into patriots.
ruling among n disunited and quarrcling
people. ever have been SOvcrcigAs with
out country and always nave remain
ed strangers TO The deeper passions OF
patriotism. II is perhaps more their mis-
fortune than their fault With u hard.
cold calculation Of their own family in
tcreSt. unm"rciiul. unSDdring migrate
ful. they have chosen the men to serve
them regardless of nationality. When
Napoleon had beaten them in his first
Italian campaign they sought to Halter
him as a man of italian blood by sending
the Neapolitan Marquis de Gallo their
ambassador. whereupon the Little Cor
pOral Jluntly demanded Of the marquis.
Has your Emperor no statesmen Of his
own to send me-" But the most re-
Metternich. was not an Austrian and
was brought from the Rhine.
The Hapsburgs greatest military COM
mander, Prince Eugene, was a French
man. Their next most famous soldier,
Wallenstein, was from Bohemia, while
lilly. the third on the roll of Hapsburg
warriors. was from the Netherlands.
HapsburE Gratitude.
As the Hapsburgs have selected their
tools without any sentiment, they have
discarded them remorselessly when they
ceased to be useful. After Eugene had
covered their colors with glory, they set
him aside in his old age to make room
for member of the imperial family in
the government of the Netherlands.
ties for them, they branded him traitor
when no had lost the battle Of Lutzen to
Gustavus Adolphus.
Because poor Mack. in 1906. permitted
Nann1ann IN fy-ir inn Nd -Tv,,
without a battle. the Hapsburg Emperor
condemned the luckless general to be
drawn on a hurdle through the streets
of Vienna and put to death. Only the
intcrcession OF the victor averted that
barbarous punishment, which was COM
muted TO twenty years imprisonment.
The case OF Benedik, whose sword had
served the Hapsburgs we'll In Galicia,
in Italy. and in Hungary, is a modern in
stance Of
how vretched
When the Prussians and Italians made
war upon Austria in 1866 Benedik was
commanding in Italy. where he was as
a last victory. But to save a Hapsburg
archduke from catching the whipping
that Prussia was certain to give the Aus
trian army In the north the old general
Won Moltke. When he had received the
inevitable defeat at Sadowa. Francis Jo-
Seph not only declined to receive him.
but condemned him to languish in igno-
miny under the stigma Of a couft-martiai.
Perhaps honestly enough. the Haps-
burgs cherish their throne. their dynasty
as their highest ideal. All other emo
lions are repressed. all other feelings SUBJ
ordinated.
When hard pressed by the ungallant
Frederiek the Great; Maria Theresa did
ter of the butcher Poisson and address
her cousin Pompadour to gain the al
lance Of France. When Napoleon had
whipped the Hapsburgs in four wars and
taken from them the diadem of Rome
they FASTENED to thrust upon him an
archduchess- They readily pocketed their
ancient pride in the presence of the Cor
sican conqueror and did not scrupie to
defy the law Of their church against the
remarriage OF n divorced person.
For there was q chance that q great
empire had risen on mo ruins Of their
own Roman empire and they wished to
see the new dynasty perpetuated by a