Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-20
THE WORLDS WAR
Through Woman's Ewes
Monarchy and Democraey
By ELLEN ADAIR

the Bulgars find that their sufferines and
sacrinces and privations have been merely
10 serve the selfish ends of Germany and
nave not gained them the territory which
ig king Ferdinand promised them, then will
they surely make as short work of this
autocrat as they did Of princes who ruled
previously in Bulgaria
ferdinand Is quite clever enough to real
ize the TACT and for his safety's sake the
private train that takes him to Vienna is
always kept ready.
THE sULTANs POSITION
AS for the Sultan, who by the way, has
none of the cunning of his willy brother.
ABDUL Hamid. he is merely the weak tool
OF Enver Bey, and when the Berlin -edu-
Gated hero" falls he will go with him.
Victory for the Allies will really mean
the dissolution of the Turkish Empire as
1t now stands.
think that in the revolt Of the Arabs
the dissolution has already begun When
the army OF the Allies reaches Jerusalem,
tne throne OF the Sultan will not be worth
anything.
And now to come to the Unhappy House
OF Hapsburg." The present Emperor of
austria apparently lacks either the author
ity and the keen will-power Of the unscrupu-
ious Francis Joseph or his masterfulness.
NO. uoupt lie feels that he has entered
an ill-omened inheritance which NAV vet
land him In the abyss
But he will be powerless to stop the
breaking-up of his empire
Always have the Hapsburgs ruled auto
cratically in the Dual Monarchy. Now,
since one OF the great aims of the present
world war is to sweep away all desnotic
rulers, his fate is surely predetermined!
nave heard from various eminent au-
thorities that the Emperor Karrs so.caIIed
reforms are merely the wriggling of his
ADVISERS. who see themselves and the sys-
TENS Tor which they stand being engulfed
In the wide Hapsburg dominions the Slav
and Latin races are demanding theeir free
dom. and all the varied maneuvers of yien-
ma, which have attracted SO much attention.
are just attempts to appease them with
straw" reforms ~
The dominant power still remains with
the Austro-Germans and the Magyars and
not until their power is fully broken will
tne subject races Of Austria. Hungary be
iioerated. When they are set free there
can surely be little doubt that the Austrian
EMPIRE as 1t now stands, will perish.
AND. FINALLY, THE KAISER
Finally, we come to the Kaiser.
wall ''0'' ''''
Does revolution yet knock at his door p"
asks every one in England. Have the
forces that sent Nicholas Romanoff into
obscurity spread themselves as far as Pots
dam?'
Tho Kaiser is still securely chained to
his throne. But for how long?
He is not the supreme force that he was
The Hindenburg line is not only the
fortified front behind which the German
armies fight for their lives II is the in
trenched position Of Prussian militarism
and Kaiserism. When the Allies break the
Hindenburg line, they sweep Prussian mill
tarism and kaiser.sm alike" So says one
of the keenest thinkers of the day.
1t would appear. then. that Williams
hope is in the integrity of the Hindenburg
line. When that is broken, the fate of the
Kaiser will be sealed as surely as that of
his four rdupes-Constantine of Greece, Fer
dinand Of Bulgaria, Karl of Austria and
Mohamed V of Turkey.
The winds Of freedom are sweeping over
Europe today, sweeping over every corner
of the glcbe. Before this terrible war is
over they will surely have attained the vio-
lence OF gale. and In that gale five
thrones will have toppled over.
Even now the handwriting has appeared
upon the wall.