The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
1HE EasTERN QUESTION:.
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ptre 70 Become Free.
We have lately heard a great about
Macedonia. IL is a name which all
ways seems TO trouble the deEpots and
the diplonlatists: for it is name not
to theircredit any more than the name
of Armenia Without going into
minute geographical questions, Mace
donia is Just now convenient name
for certain lands which in 1877 8 Rus
sia set free from bondage to the Turk,
but which Europe, at the treaty of
Berlin, thrust hack into bondage. But
when Europe gave Macedonia back
TO the Turk. 1t did at least make him
promise that he would give the land
institutions of some kind or other
which were to make everybody there
happy. How very simple Europe
must have been if It thought that the
Turk would keep his word. Plain peo-
ple who looked to facts and not to
formula, knew that the Turk had
made this kind of promise over
and over again. and had always
broken it. OF course the Turk
donia is cruelty oppressed, like Ar
has got hold of. And Europe, 3
which gave him the power TO do
wrong. has in no way stepped in to
hinder him. or even to rebuke him,
for this wrong doing. Europe" is
very angry when people asserts its
rights against a despot-it looks on
very calmly when despot breaks his
word TO a people. But the Macedon-
ian people, on whom the rub comes,
arc less calm; they know that the Turk
will never do them any good; so they
wish to get rid of the Turk. They
wish to join their free brethren, all
the more SO since the half free have
been Joined on to the free. For this
they are called names in well informed
circles, and their free brethren have
to walk very warily lest they should
be called names too. In no we'll In
formed circle is the grand Turk ever
called names for breaking his word OF
doing any act of oppression. For the
grand Turk is an imperial majesty,
and an imperial majesty must not be
called names. But the enslaved Bull
garian who seeks for freedom can al
any moment be called turbulent
conspirator, and the free Bulgarian
who tries to help him can at any mo-
ment be called q foreign intriguer >
Thus, as wc all know, 1.-The Eastern
| Question is still awaiting its solu
ton" It has been awaiting ii
ever since the beginning of record
cd history. Plain people, who look
solution will never come till the Turk
is got rid of; sometimes they are
tempted to say that it will not como
| till the will of Europe" is got rid OF
too. That means till the sovercigns OF
Russia and Austria can be taught to
mind their own business, d process
which is likely to take good while.
| Meanwhile Tic Times of recent date
has assured us that .'the treaty of Ber.
lin is very good example of what a
treaty ought not to be- )" 1t is some
thing to be told that from a well in.
formed quarter. To be sure, we nre
also told that there is q tendency III
Macedonia to resort to instructions.
s4Ehic1 would produce awkward com
| plicatious. No doubt there is such q
tendency in Macedonia, but it is moi
peculiar to Macedonia; it is common
to all countries in all ages of the
world which has been so treated as to
mako instructions needful. And nc
doubt the complications" produced
by such insurrections have often been
awkward" for those against whom
the insurrection has been made. The
tendency to insurrection has been al
different times shown very conspicu.
ously both in Old England and in
New. Something of the kind was done
at Naseby, something at Bunker Hill.
Whether the general results at Naseby
and Bunker Hill down to our own day
are to be looked on merely as ''awE-
ward complications" or as anything
else must be left to well informed
circles to determine. Edward A. Free.
man in Kansas City Journal.