Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-22
MACEDONIAN REVOLT.

II Is evident that the rebellion IN
Macedonia has broken out. and that It
threatens to assume rather serious
proportions. The rising appears to
be general Ia Monastlr, salonica, and
Adrianople. thus embracing large
part OF European Turkey, The prep
aratlons for this rising have been going
on for seven years, and II Is thought
tho patriots are we'll prepared for a
long struggle, Hitherto the conflicts
between Turks and insurgents have
occurred while the former We're
searching for arms and ammunition,
and torturlng the inhabitants to make
them reveal the hiding places of the
forbidden implements OF war Now
the insurgents have taken to the Of
fenslve, and with some success. VIII
their success contlnue2 Single hand.
ed they can certainly not free them
selves from the Turkish yoke. But II
they have anything Of the Boer quality
In them they may be able to fight
long enough to compel the interested
powers to interfere, and then they may
gain liberty. II has recently been said
that 'the danger 81 European con-
ilagration Is real, and 1t IA near and
the prediction seems about to be yeri-
fed
Turkish rule In Europe Is an anon
ally and can be accounted for on no
other supposition than this, that II was
a punishment for the gross idolatry,
and other abomlnatlons that were
perpetrated under the name OF divine
worship. II commenced IN the 18th
century, when the Ottomans first
crossed over the Dardanelles, and soon
spread all over southern Europe. dev.
astated Kingdoms and principalites
and planted the heel Of oppression upon
millions Of so-called Christians. Then
followed the crusades and other eff
forts at hurting back the unspeakable
Turk to the regions whence he came.
It was a contest that lasted for CEN
turtles. During the last century the
Turk has slowly been driven ont OF
Europe, and II this revolt succeeds.
practically his last stronghold there
Is gone, one by one the Greeks Rou.
manians, Servians. Bulgarlans. and
Cretans have been liberated i IS but
to be sincerely hoped that the remain.
ms uniortunates may succeed In gain
Ing liberty.
The atrocities committed By Turks
In the governed provinces are a mat.
ter OF record It has been estimated
that IN normal years two thousand
Macedonians are annuallyGnurdered
by the systematic and regular exer.
else Of tho Mohammedan religion.
When there Is excitement as IN 1876
The number OF victims goes up 10
twenty. fifty or ono hundred thousand
The men are tortured and killed. or
put In prison TO rot. the women and
even little girls suffer shame and hor.
rors ana are killed or dragged into
harems The houses are looted and
the villages burned, In ordinary times
when there are no foreign correspond
euts around when there Is peace IN
Turkey. the same regime Is equally
immu,able. Only at such times. the
Christians are done 10 death slnglv
or BY families. Such IS the unanimous |
testimony Of an who have studied me /
Turkish question a correspondent I
Of the Boston Transcript, evidently /
well acquainted with the subject says
Perhaps these Christians Womb
STAND II all were one exception made.
were only the honor OF the women
held lnYioIate. Upon this. the Vital
point OF the question, however details
would be indicate. But the condition
must be understood Upon The Chris.
ilau womanhood of Macedonia Turkish !
ltSllally Is Wre0ked unchecked There
IS q land Of tears and that Is Mace.
lonia. where q woman's beauty Is
curse, and where wide cross.
~ are branded upon the fair forehea0s
y thousands Of Christian girls, 10 save
hem az any rate from the haren ana
10 drag them out II they are once
ragged ia Hundreds OF homes arc
,yery year dIshonored There Is no
Justice, there Is no defender OF the law
Except the hidden rife. which may AT.
ord redress a chance shot al the
chou. and then bitter life among the
evolutionary bands on the hills Does
anyone wonder az The announcement
n Two dispatches that the Macedonian
somen are Joining the reyoutionlsis?
An AGED American misslonarv. who
las spent his life among the Bulgari-
ms IN Macedonia. said: 'Ei,rope
llames these people for using dyna. !