Arizona republican., 1906-06-16
THE BALKAN QUESTION
 AGAIN TO THE FRONT
The Late Energy of England in the Sinai
 Matter Inspired Hope
The lnsurrecnon Started Over Wide Area, 1t is Feared Will Fail for Want of the Powers Expected Support.

(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
 Sofia. Bulgaria. May 23.-The. Mace donian question is closest to the heart of this Balkan capital of 9O,0OO popu- lation, many of whom are refugees and emigrants from Macedonia. The daily news of fighting, murder and massacre in the vilayets is eagerly scanned for names and places by those for whom the remotest districts of the province are bound by blood ties.
 Continually overworked tchetniks. (members of the tchetas or bands) are to be seen under treatment at the pub lie and private hospitals Regularly on the walls of the city appear black bordered necrologies issued by their relatives in Sofia. Panachidas. or ser vices for the repose of the souls of the recent dead, are a weekly occurrence at all of the churches The courier mail system of the Vutreshna Organi- tazia as the Macedonian organization IS called. which brings prompt and trustworthy messages from every where in the interior is superceding the Turkish mail just as the committee tribunals have done. and are one of it's most popular features. By the same means money is regularly sent to needy families in the interior The system is so perfected that a member or the British parliament was recently taken by a tcheta through an extend ed part of Macedonia by night.
 Quicker witted than the Bulgars of the North, these southern mountain eers, have transformed completely the business of Sofia, and their keenness Tor getting the best end of the bargain IS giving the greatest uneasiness in the long established colony of Spanish Hebrews while the imperious demand for news has caused the establishment of half dozen daily newspapers in as many years. The Macedonian colony mas burst into all professions and trades; it's corporations almost control local politics; it has nearly 1000 rep resentatives in the officers corps of the Bulgarian army; and in the depart meuts of justice. fiance and adminis- tration the natives are closely pressed by the emigrants. No cabinet is com plete without a minister of state of Macedonian extraction. who is often, as at present, a power behind the throne. With it's 10000 Macedonians, Sofia is really the capital of Christian Macedonia
 The Macedonian movement has gained in measure. as the Macedonian colony has mounted in numbers. It is not Bulgaria which is instigating the Macedonians, so much as it is the Macedonians who have got control of Bulgaria
 The present acuteness of the oues- ton was not reached until after a de- cade and a half of propaganda The pioneer revolutionist, Major Panitza, who led brilliant troop of Macedo- n1an 1rregulars in the Zerbo-Bulgarian war twenty years ago and who was executed on charge of conspiracy by the redoutable premier StambouIoff. was a voice crying in the wilderness. In his efforts to get a hearing in a country, gone mad on a pro-Russian and anti-Russian controversy The great Stambouloff himself held the Macedonians in strict suppression, and cultivated a friendly policy of gradual union with the Ottoman empire It was only after his death in 1895 that the first armed conflict between a band of the Turkish asker took place in Melnik. The Bulgarian army was carried off it's feet and won forever by the bravery of the ex-Officers Mutt aIJff and Natcheff who found thelr