New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-12
"oE. FOR A DEMosTHENEs~
Attitude of Greeks in Present Macedonian
Struggle Condemned-Laid to Jealousy.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: vas very much impressed with Mr.. Wal
lace Woods statement, IN your issue OF yester-
day 70 the effect that we eve our lives. liberties
ana very existence 10 the Greeks Being OF
somewhat sensitive temperament. and an imasina-
tive turn Of mind. 7 started 20 give vent TO my
feelings o. gratitude by expressing myself In the
language OF Homer 10 the nearest representative
o. that heroic race Presenting myself az the en-
trance 10 ais castle. leaning my lance and
taiingt or my helment-a cane and derby In
this cEse-I began in the best Greek at my com
msnd:
o thou. the scion % a noble race,
Thou chile Of Zeus. Of light % grace: 49, -,
lhol Eoio"n mean uflIesii ltl q blpe4 hino'
whose Flories Hesiod sang and Homer blind:
% Mltiades thou
When my apostrophe was cut short by the very
uncassical-certsinly disillusioning-cry OF, Ten
- twent cents doaz'n"; and ! wound up my
ode with-s few bananas.
But. speaking seriously. what does Mr.. Wood
mean By talking OF menace" 10 and loss OF
Greece and Heilcuism in connection with the Mace
donian question? Is Macedonia in Greece? Has
Il ever been part OF Greece? Is not the Hellenic
Kingdom to-day doing her best 10 keep Macedonia
N subsection 10 the people who put out mems
ss' and helping them IN their Tamerlanisn cam
Iegn OF ruthless massacre?
would willingly forego the whole OF Plato and
Aristotle. Homer and HeslOd. even the achieve
ments Of Them!stocles and initiates. for one short
staI OF DenloSthcncS, 10 rouse CHRISTIAN
rouse Christian America. TO rouse humanity. TO a
fun sense % their duty 70 each other. liberty and
Justice; Of their duty 20 their God.
Oh for a DeTnosthenesi
NJ s A. Eanthaky. Editor Of The Atlantis,
presumably q truer representative Of modern
heleaism than the average Greek OF to-day thinks
'see The Tribune OF the 7th): Turkey viii not
ne criven out OF Europe into Asia for five hundred
years 10 come. Turkey IS foe 10 be feared. and
not even Russia would care TO engage her in
~ etc This Is certainly a bold prophecy. a
&c statement There is little question that the
ia may stay where he Is for an indefinite length
W uine, provides al leaders OF public opinion, the
lelek they Go not. Evidently the last Greco-Turk-
81 War was too much for Mr.. Kanthsky.
tIe EDITOR OF The Atlantic also expresses the
-l.l.on ihat u the powers had their way they
Moulc place Macedonia under Greek rule because
t1e Greeks possess superior intellectual fitness
nd figfc degree OF civilization than the others.
an not Dr. the confidence Of the powers. and can
10y say much about the FIRST statement With re
taro ID tho second however-viz. the superior
iniellectuoI Gtness'-it would be interesting 70
hHoN Wlcfher Mr.. Nanthaky refers 10 the Greeks
40 committed the immense folly OF going 10
Nar with Turkey in contrast 10 the BulEarians
Nio Kept quiet under greater prOyOcation in 1897.
". NOSE Others who. living in Macedonia, did not
~ q single finger 10 help their brethren across
le border il their struggle against superior
-o.ces a. the time. and who are to-day taking
-clAe part IN the butchory b. the Turks of their
.-ear companions who have the courage 10 strike
- liberty. life and honor.
re attitude 81 the Greeks toward the present
s,furgle. BE- is said. Is which must cause
u.s. 20 al true lovers u Hellas. II would
~ u these OF to-day unequal 20 those % yester-
esg II virtue surpass them In their historic weak
Aess--ealOus-
II Tor a Demosthenes. STUDENT.
roy. y. J. SEPT. :. 1906.