Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01
CONCERT. OF
POWERS NEEDED.
Premier Balfour Replies to
Archbishop Davidson on
Balkan lmbroglio.
HE ANALYzES THE SITUATION
Best Hope Of Dealing With II Lies
in Russo-Austrian Agreement. He
BeIieves-Reforms Must Be Made
Operative.

OI CANTERBURY, ulSCuSScS tuc mdCcuou-
ian situation. The letter is a reply to
the archbishops action in drawing at.
tention to the growing uneasiness
among church men at the apparent
apathy of the powers, while unspeak-
able atrocities are perpetrated In Mac
edonia."
Mr.. Balfour says he is in entire SYM
pathy with the feelings Of horror and
indignation and fully understands the
desire to give expression in public
meetings to the sentiment of reproba-
ton which recent events justified. Mr.
Balfour then says:
I'VE have not to deal with simple
question of disagreement or oppres-
sion by Turkish officials, but with
problem complicated by the facts that
the Christian population of Macedonia
is rent in fragments by differences OF
race aggravation to the ills inflicted by
a corrupt and incapable administration
and by an i'll paid and undisciplined
soldiery and by detestable system Of
taxation, we have to reckon with all
the ills which in a population not I'M
bued with western ideas of humanity,
rival nationalities and sects do not
scruple to inflict on one another"
Mr. Balfour adds:
"The instrument whereby the situa-
ton may be dealt with is the concert,
of Europe. But this, even were they
all in harmony, is necessarily slow and
may easily be Ineffective is the prob
lem is complex.
1T was a matter Of congratulation
when Russia and Austria, acting with
the authority of Europe proposed to
press the scheme of reforms which,
while lacking in the theoretical per-
lection, came within the circuit of
practical policies, and would, if more
earnestly pressed by the porte and
more frankly accepted by the Mace
DOMAIN population, have spared the
world the horrors it has since witness
ed. Neither of these conditions was
fulfilled. The porte, as usual, was
dilatory and failed to see that policy
of humanity was policy of wisdom.
The revolutionists have deliberately
done their best to drive the Turk to ex-
cesses and furnish him with an excuse
for deferring the execution of reforms
meeting horrors with horrors and
brutality with brutality, for the DELHI
crate purpose of driving the Turk to
crimes against the innocent and thus
play upon the sympathies of the world.
"Such methods as these are no more
| tolerable than the disagreement
which is their excuse
Coming to the question of the atti
tude of Great Britain, Mr.. Balfour
points out that Russia, Austria and
| Turkey cannot be indifferent to terri
torial redistribution in the peninsula,
while Greece, Bulgaria, Servia and
| Roumania are all interested in the fate
| of the province whose Christian popu-
| lation is made up from all their ma
tionalities. These external complica-
tons are doubled by internal ones, be-
cause of religious differences, the Mo-
hammedans fearing Christian rule,
while the eXarchistS and Christians
prosecute the patriarchs; the Greeks
who are patriarchists, would sooner
find protection under the rule of the
! sultan than be left to fight the mat
! ter out with the Bulgarians who are
| exarchists.
ut is with a problem such as this
that one has to deal" said Mr.. Balfour,
land l cannot but believe that the best
hope of dealing with it lies in the CO
operation of Russia and Austria,
strengthened with the support and aid
ed by the advice of the other sigma
tories of the treaty of Berlin"
These countries possess, Mr.. Bal
four asserts, incompatible influence
over the antagonistic forces of the pen
insula. In fact, no other nation or
group of nations could do it at all if
Russia and Austria were hostile
Great Britain is not precluded by the
! policy outlined from offering sugges-
tions, which had already been done
and she will continue to do So But
it would be folly to forget that there
are occasions when two powers are
stronger than three, and that in addi-
ton to the numbers carries a diminu-
ton of efficiency.
These principles, concludes Mr. Bal
four, direct the policy of the British
! government in the near east, and he
has no doubt that they are in accord
| ance with British interests, and in
| obedience to them lies the best hope
| of improving the condition of the
| Macedonians and the security of Eu-
| ropean peace.
JEWS SIMPLY SLAUGHTERED.
Truth About the Most Recent Russian
Massacre is Told.
New York, Sept 25.-A Russian cor
respondents private letter from Co
mel, written September IA, during the
anti-Semitic riots, contradicts the
Russian official version of the affair,
says Times dispatch from London.
1t is in part as follows:
"The trouble began Friday with a
wrangle between the Jewish fish sell
ers and Mujik (peasant leading to a
free fight wherein several were in
jured, one Mujik MORALLY.
Saturday and Sunday anti-Semitic
agitators went about exhorting the
people not to leave their fellow Chris
tians unavenged. Most Of the Jews
remained indoors. All the drinking
shops were closed and the streets
were patrolled. One hundred work
men from the railway shops mustered
on one of the principal streets Mon
dry and began to break the windows
of Jewish houses, which they entered
and plundered A number of Jews
who collected in self-defense were
turned back by soldiers from the
streets, where the plundering was go
| ing on. They beat and arrested those
not obeying forthwith.
1.-THE mob stood by while the plum
| dering mob was committing all sorts
| of eycesses. One could hear the
| shr'eks of children in the streets,
which patrols blocked against help
| from Jews outside. Some Jews tried