The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-10
BY CHARLES COWARD RUSSELL
Copyright, 1917, by the Newspaper
Enterprise .AosOciation.)


What | should like to see,' said a
sturdy American one day at. dinner
in the Winter Palace, IS al intcrna-
tionaI law absolutely forbidding any
German prince or princess to marry
anybody outside of Germany, hence
forth and forever"
He pumped this ont in the midst
OF a pause in the conversation so
that everybody got the full WALTON
OF 1t. Our English guests naturally
looked unhappy and made no COM
ment. hut the rest of the table ap.
plauded.
We mad been talking about the Evl.
Genius of Russia, which vas the ore
sent Mrs. n. Romanoff, late czarina
and Head Trouble Maker.
o.. She had helped lot to put the Ro-
manoff family out OF business. Also
to enable about 90 representatives Of
democracies then assembled to sit a,
ease about her late table.
What was about million times
more important, she had had hand,
without knowing it or meaning it, in
bringing on the Russian revolution,
the best thing that has happened
since the Fall Of the Eastile.
The reason our English friends
looked sad at the mention of the sub.
ject Is because the royal family Of
England is about all German and
many Of its marriages in the last 60
years have been with German princes
or princesses
The curse of monarchy is real, per-
sistent and terrible. Monarchy is an
utterly lunatic and poisonous institu-
ton that should have been abolished
from the face of the earth 14O years
ago. The price that Europe has since
paid for clinging to the worn out old
bunk is appalling.
Witness this war.
Also, the fact that the war was not
ended months ago; also a long array
or details that have made a horrible
conflict all the worse.
One of the countless bad things
about foOling with royalty is that the
offspring of royalty can marry only
with the offspring of other royalty.
Germany had always an amazing
overcrOp of princelets and princess.
let's Elsewhere in the world there
We're not enough to go around. Conse.
quently every royal family in Europe
became German and Is German to-
day.
Generally speaking, a German is al
ways German No matter where he
or she may go, the ties of Germany
continue to bind, the thoughts and
ambitions continue to be German,
All the trouble in Greece, for in.
stance, was made by a German prin.
cess married to the king that the
Greek people, for some reason or 9th.
er, still allowed to mess and ms
handle their affairs
IT, Greece had been a republic she
would have kept her agreement, land
ed troops at the Dardanelles, taken
Constantinople. put Turkey out and
enabled the war to end in the autumn
of 1915.
But about this czarina of Russia
she was a German princess, and al
though the country upon whose
throne she sat was at war with Ger
many she betrayed the country she
helped to misrule for the sake of the
country Of her birth.
She was proud, arrogant, over5ear
ing. neurotic, unpopular. She had
her way absolutely with her husband
who was cowed by her furious self
will and was weak man anyway
except wher it came to sending revo.
lutionists to the gallows or Siberia.
The czarina likewise had weak
spots IN her domineering character.