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Show CON ST ANT I N E IS .WELCOMED BACK. Lisisisfl jv$There can bo no doubt as to tho rill of ihe Grecian in the selection of iji i uler. When Constantine arrived in 'Athens on Sunday Ik v.;,s wflrmm-i! by ill acclaim of Die people From railroad station to the stadium he HBis cheered by thousands ami irc-BHently irc-BHently the crowds broke through tin "iw-- ud paid bj ...hst mH , tl.i hnr.-e vf: 1 ','ilavtu.4 had .111 o 1 1 1 1 o 1 1 u 1 1 1 1 i -slab-lis: 1 a titular H mm nl. the LHH g&ceks expressed positive nrefere'nse fV a kingdom, and. ih-I'Sl'ecks ih-I'Sl'ecks tliprnst 1 i s to be the id gjfttary subjects of 'a king, no one Hlo need complain except to regrel He inability of tbc people to see their yjBtiy 10 a broader conception of gov-fl gov-fl SPniuent. Kings are survival of a Worm of slavery in which the ruler had 'arbitrary power over the bus and! property of their subects or late kings in some countries have been re- ! duced to figureheads wilhoul the coni- mending authority ol even the presi-dent presi-dent of the United States. Bui the ihoucht back of royalty i:; superiority ; of a class or family and inferiority! of the plain people In a democracy, ancestry or blood does not determine fitness. The test is in performance. For Instance, the most brill. am of 'ill our presidents had nothing In birth j to commend him. Ho was ushered into ) the world in poverty. Mis father was illiterate. He grew up in the back-J woods and adversity pursued him until 1 his mighty intellect rorced recognition. ' Then he was exalted to the highest po-sitiou po-sitiou in the gift of the American peo-pic peo-pic because he inspired mntidneo and The Greeks, in restoring Cons tan-tine tan-tine to the throne, have been swayed by sentiment stimulated by a religious j impulse. But they have broken faith wiih the allies. No nation was given more consideration at Versailles than I Greece! Hellenic power was extended to the environs of Constantinople and .i part of Asiatic Turkey w;.s placed inder the Greek. Constantino was the consistent friend of the Hohenzollern family and he did his utmost to hamper the move-tuents move-tuents of the British and French in their march to the relief of the Sorbs. |