The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-30

send copy Of what you wish to. say to
your congregation to the political au-
thority to be o. KID To keep watch
of all this 1t takes q large number OF
officers. The Turks have 10 in dis
trict; Austrians need 30. To pay these
men the people must be taxed. Suchls
the administration of civilized Austria.
and Kalaj in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kalaj, the very man who is the author
of Servian historyAhe told to the
world that those provinces historically
any ethnographica1ly belong to the Ser
Wan nation, and he yells-a native OF
Bosnia-'You are a Bosnian; you are
not Servian. 1t is something as il
you told citizen of Butte, You are a
Montanan, not an American believe
when Minister Kalaj dies he will join
old Bismarck and Lord Beaconsfield,
the leading factors of the treaty of Ber-
lin. No doubt both of these gentlemen
up there must be keeping the same
apartments with Nero and Caligula of
old Rome.
Many EmiGrating.
"a great many inhabitants Of those
provinces are emigrating. The Moham-
medan, as well as Roman Catholic and
Greek Catholic Servians, are emigrat-
ing. Some of them are going to Rus
sia and some coming to America; some
even going back to Turkey. We have
hundred citizens of them right here
in Butte. Those that cannot afford to
give their homes away are patiently
waiting for the gun of Nevesinje.' I
wish to tell you what the gun of Neves-
inje' is: Nevesinje is a small village in
the southern part of Herzegovina. It
was there that the gun was heard in
1875. That gun started the fire on the
Balkan peninsula; it started the battle
cry in Servia, Montenegro, Roumania
and Bulgaria. AlF these states raised
their banners against Turkey and after
ward Russia declared war against the
bloody Turk. The gun of Nevesinje is
sure to come again and Kalaj will hear
it. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro
started it before; he will start it up
again; he is the man that will Dewey
them UP. Prince Nicholas of Monte
negro has the sympathy of all liberty
loving people; he is backed by the great
northern uncle of all the SlavoniansA-
the czar Of Russia-who has sacrificed
hundreds of thousands of soldiers, has
spent millions of money, to help the
Christians in Turkey, and that is more
than all the powers Of Europe have
done. The Servians, as we'll as all the
Southern Slavonians, look upon Russia
as their liberator. They are proud Of
having Gar Nicholas as their powerful
cousin, because he is at the head Of
l3O,UUU,UUU SlaVOnlanS. sIne SIaVOn1an-
Americans, too, are proud of him, be-
cause he is friend Of their new country
as well as the old. No statesman, no
politician. can deny that Russia has al
ways proved ito be a traditional friend
of America.
There are probbaly 100000 Servians
in the United States and most of them
are naturalized Americans. They make
good citizens, quite a number Of them
having enlisted in the army during the
recent war with Spain. The Servians
have a second Edison in America. The
greatest electrician of our age is a
Servian-American, and that is Nikola
Tesla of New York.
1.-The Servian- Americans down the
coast may be proud of a prominent man
and state senator, and that is Hon. John
l.. Gregovich of Nevada. Butte Ser
yians. too, can be proud Of having two
city fathers in the greatest mining
camp in the world, and those are our
| friends, John Ljubibratich and Marco
| Medin.
Il now wish to thank all our friends
! who have honored us with their pres
ence. and thank you all for your kind
| attention"