The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-08
GREEKS APPEAL TO
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
IA GARGoIIANI LAWYER WRITES
TO THE JOURNAL.
Asks that Citizens Of the United States
nCondescend to Pronounce Their
Righteous Word'' Against the Bru-
tally to Which Greeks in Rumania
Are Subj ected.
TO the Editor of The Journal.

TO the Editor of The Journal. -
From the distance of a little piece Of
land which is called Greece, from that
little coign where, in ancient times, the
8 light of liberty lighted all nations and
whose people pushed back to Asia the,
s coming barbarous tribes, comes now a
descendant of our glorious ancestors. the
ancient Greeks, to solicit a little space
in your world spread Journal in order
that his voice of protest might be heard
q by the American people who think OF lib
erty as the prosperity Of the worlds pop
ulation. -. .~@>a
The glorious antiquities of Greece
which are now days become and shall
3 forever be the altar Of all the civilized
people of the world. her philosophy, the
battle of Thermopylae, the glorious vic
tory gained at Salamina against the bar
barous XerXes, and the Olympic games
5l(that are to be repeated in Athens In
iApriD, have secured the liberty of the
civilized world.
Well what our ancestors, the ancient
Greeks did,. we, their descendants, the
new Greeks are trying to do with our
loyal might and strength, either intel
S5lectually or bodily, against the new com
ing danger. Indeed. Macedonia, in which
flows the purest Greek blood because she
H is Greece's greatest vein, IS now over
whelmed with Bulgarian murderers who
~
transform her into slaughter house. In
81 addition to these have sprung out, like
mushrooms, the Rumanians, claiming
rights over Macedonia. and seeing that
they cannot fulfil their purposes, they have
fcommenced to assail the Greeks, our
II countrymen, who live in Rumania and
gain honestly their bread. The means
that both nations use against the Greeks
|, is a clear evidence that the Bulgarians
and Rumanians bear still the, traces Of
their barbarous ancestry. Nowa days
s.nos civilized nation uses such abominable
means. Neither Bulgaria nor Rumania
is just in claiming any rights whatsoever
I upon Macedonia. Had they any, the
worlds history would speak Of them.
But the most interesting point which
we want to attract the American people S
attention to and provoke their righteous
and liberal opinion of is the detestable
means and assaults and injuries which
the Runanians use against Greeks who
live in Rumania The Greek element in
whichever country it goes to, has as it's
chief purpose to gain its bread honestly,
respecting the laws and people of that
country.
4-- The Rumanians. acting thus, violate the
human laws, and we, being unable to
turn the tables take refuge in the Ameri-
can peoples liberal opinion that they may
condescend to pronounce their righteous
word against the Rumanian brutalities.
l& The Greeks are always thankful to
H their benefactors, and they will not lose
4 the chance to express their thankfulness
4 to the. American people.
3ErF The Olympic games are the symbol OF
the civilized worlds fraternity and lib
erty
sssi Denis P, Encyclopedias, Lawyer.
S Gargoiani. Greece, March I, 1906.