The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
A PATHOLOGICAL RIOT.
Gentle. but Determined, Measures to Cure
Bucharest Literati OF "Frsnoopathy."

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To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: Many
PERSONS were surprised q short time ago by
he dispatches giving accounts Of a sudden
o1tburst Of rioting In Bucharest. followed
BY It's equally sudden subsistence. Mail
accounts received give some our ious reasons
tr its occurrence. They were purely philo-
ogical in their origin, but II the offending
PARTIES had not at once aooeded to the de-
nnds Of the students the affair might have
developed into both a political and class
trouble.
It seems thai for some twenty-five years
past the Weather and travelled classes In
Eumanis have been gradually giving up the
yR Of their native language for French to
rrh an extent that numbers Of them are
cutie unable to make themselves understood
sunnsnian Pafiiament there have been. cases
where. after being. elected. they had to set
% work to learn their own language before
The cause Of the rioting the other day was
sdetermined effort Of the younger genera
an 70 put an end to the p h obstruction = tlps q , tasir
busy and from more than one quarter.
h While the upper class and educated Ruman-
hns we're adopting French as the language
Of the home and society almost exclusively,
the Jews of Rumania were aking up German
Tor business and general purposes, IN the
n1t q q BE-, sSssa and Ia f tSe dis e sssf imm Ssafs sfs
contiguous TO it. Russian has been coming
Tadually into common use.
The FTeach 9ol Language hS e. e e. ops tS Sas
has made the deepest inroads into the old
sco;Rpmanian tongue. The opportunity was
saoIdsd by the "a, ann 6dls. amateur M he periorm,
society called the "Obole." In previous years
the performance has always been in French.
DS eF to ,P poppm Iifsefn eei RiGGaS ana t was Announced
that the opening piece would be In Rumanian.
This did not satisfy the students and the
whole performance should. be in the native
language. The society giving the entertain;
rent resisted this, the more because it would
have been unintelligible to the better part OF
the audience, who are affected with what q
Runanian military medical man has described
Is -FranCopathy."
On the evening of the performance the
Students and populace assembled at the en-
trance and in the vicinity OF the theatre, the
troops We're called out. but not permitted to
use their weapons and barricades were made
o. csrria ses, wagons and street cars. The
result was a stoppage of the performance
aud a general free fight, with sticks. fists and
stones, IN which some three hundred persons
we're badly hurt, but none killed,
IN order that it might be understood that
np,hlng offensive to France was intended oy
10 the French legation to explain that II was
= protest against the Standardization OF
,neir own language. and not, IN n sense
he moment a very exciting affair. Whether
+, will have the effect of making the ladies
o. the upper classes in Rumania turn to the
l* Of the Ian guag of their country remains
70 BE- seen, hut it seems to have deoided the
tationalIsts among the professors and literary
men to attempt to purify the national Ian
fIIge and eliminate from II the foreign words
and expressions that have corrupted its
PECULIAR characteristics.
The subject is not without a certain inter-
tstlonal significance, owing to the strenuous
ttorts that have been made by the three and
= half millions Of Rumanians. In Hungary to
Preserve their nationality and language, and
view OF the present political situation IN
l~1position IL TO be held in Bucharest. at which
GGfsn gements have been made for Rumanlans
u al parts OF the world to be present or rep
ehssented, Among them Is the Society for the
mpcation of the Rumanians Of Transylvanis,
sao other societies of the same kind IN Hun
ss ey The Magyar Minister Of the Interior,
anticipating I'M it, and the Rumanian Gov
g,inmeat took the matter up; At the begin
ane Of, the present month the subject was
%uShed on by. the Rumanian representative
x VIENNA, and there were. some hopes that
we Magyar interdict would be removed.
NtW YORK. April2l. PERA.