Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-26
PREMIER BALF0UR
ON MACEDONIA.
uo, Population Is Rent in Frag-
mcnts by Race and Religious
Differences.
HOW TO DEAL WITH SITUATION.
,s nv Concert Of Europe, but This
Even Where All is Harmony, is
Necessarily Slow.

rondon, Sept 25.-Premier Ba'four'
N a lengthy letter to the archbishop OF
canterbury. Or. Davidson, discusses
,nn Macedonian situation The letter Is
renly TO the archbishop's action IN
drawing attention to the growing UNI
oosiness among churchmen at the APP
n,rent apathy of the powers, while
nnsrealable atrocities are perpetratcd
IN Macedonia
Mr.. Balfour says he is In entire SYM
rothy with the feelings of horror and
INDIGNATION, and fully understands the
desire to give expression In public
meeting to the sentiment of reprobation
,,hich recent events justified. Mr.. Ball
tour then proceeds to analyze the situ-
alton He says;
I'VE have not to deal with a sample
Of misgoyernment or oppression by
T,rkish officials, but with problem
domnllcated by the fact that the Chris
Nam nopulation Of Macedonia Is rent in
pigments by differences Of race aggra-
yated by differences of religion. and In
addition to the ills inflicted By a cor
ami md incapable administration and
nv an in paid and undisciplined soldiery
and Inv "a detestable system of taxation
No have to reckon with all the Ills
which. I'm a population not imbued with
western ideas OF humanity rival M"
uonallfies and sects do not scruple to
i1hict on one another
Mr. Balfour adds: "The instrument
whereby the situation may be dealt
with Is the concert of Europe. But
mis- even we're they all In harmony,
Is necessarily slow, and may easily be
Ineffective If the problem liz complex.
II was a matter of speculation when
Russia and Austria, acting with the
authority of Europe, proposed TO press
the scheme of reforms, which, while
hacking in theoretical perfection, came
within the circuit of practical politics
and would. II more earnestly pressed
nv the portsA Saad more frankly ac-
ccpted by the Macedonian population
have spared the world the horrors 1t
has since Witnessed Neither of these
conditions was fulfilled.
"rhe porte, as usual was dilatory
and failed to see that policy of hui
mrtty was a policy OF wisdom. The
revoutonists have deliberately done
their best to drive the Turk to excesses
and furnish him with am excuse for de-
ferring the execution of reforms, meet
ing horrors with horrors and brutality
with brutality for the deliberate pur-
nose Of driving the Turk to crimes
against the innocent and thus play up
on the sympathes of the world. Such
methods as these are not more morally
tolerant than the disagreement which
is their excuse" tt.l
Coming to the question of the attl-
tudo Of Great Britain Mr. Baltour
points out that Russia, Austria and
Turkey cannot be Indifferent to a terri
toria redistribution In the peninsula,
While Greece, Bulgaria, Servla and
Roumania are all interested In the fate
of the province whose Christian popu-
lation is made up from an their ma
tlonalities 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 paltiarchists; the Greeks
who are partiarchsts would sooner find
protection under the rule of the sultan
than be left to fight the matter with
the Bulgarians, who are eXarchists.
1T Is with 4 problem such as this
that one has to Goal' says Mr.. Bal
cannot but believe that
the best hope of dealing with il lies in
the continued cooperation OF Russia
and Austria, strengthened with the