Arizona republican., 1906-06-16

ses. It was then that the Macedonians got the upper hand, and they have held it ever since.
 The crude beginnings of the revolu- uonary organization and its naively frank motto of annexation of Macedo- mia to Bulgaria were gradually per- fected under the stress of crcum- stance. The hardest tasks, of installing discontent, and that proper measure of self respect which is required to bring a dumb slave to an armed protest against wrongs endured for centuries, and was carried out by the Bulgarian schoolmaster, his soul aflame with the writings of the romantic school, and
 thirsty for the early glorious death of Byron or a Pushkin. The Exarchy
 church, as it slowly gathered around itself the Bulgarian villages and eman- clpated them from the social domina-
 ton of the Greek tchorbadjis, did a
 work rather agreeable to the Turks,
 who sought advantage in racial con- fllct, without suSpecting the enormous
 latent vitality of the hitherto condem- ned element. The revolutionary or ganlzation proper slowly won over dis
 ciples from among the hotblooded and reckless, from the undisciplined bri- gands, from the victims of more fla
 grant violations by the bashi- -bazouks. In Sofia, the high Macedonian com
 mittee confined it's activities to pro- poganda of the cause among the diff ferent fellow Bulgarians. Here the la
 mented Kitantcheff did an indispen-
 sable work. With a tongue of fire to which his spotless and lovable char acter led conviction. he first won q
 hearing in the national Sobranje,
 whose most eloquent leader he was. |, The foundations of the most perfect revolutionary organization with which
 Turkey has ever had to contend were Iald by a bunker expelled from the mill ltary academy at Sofia for insubordi- nation The premature death of Gotse Deltcheff at Bonitsa on the eve of the instruction of 1903 was a serious loss 10 the internal organization which he created. But the silent leadership. the thoroughness of the rigid discipline which he established had seemingly survived shim. Admiring the character or some Protestant tchetniks from Bonsko, where the American mission aries have long Iabored, Deltcheff onca exclaimed that If Macedonia had been Protestant, it had been free long ago" The strict sobriety and good behav,or which he exacted of his men, and his mercilessness toward loose conduct of any sort, won the confidence of thc villagers and Nthe Macedonian women soon became the most zealous helpers and abbettorS of the tchetasF
 The instruction of 1903, precipitat- ed against the wishes of the internal organization, through a raid engineer ed by the generals committee in Sofia hrst showed the power of the organi zation of which up to that time little mad been heard. The resulting massa cres of 1903 carried off thousands of victims and the Turkish garrisons were swelled to a total of 200. 900. Fif " thousand refugees fled for refuge 10 Bulgaria, over 100000 were suc- cored by English and American aid during that winter
 The cost was immense. But many iocaI engagements in which a handful or armed peasants overcame large bod les Of Turkish troops taught it's lesson to the unarmed innocents who suffered the most. The dread of the komitadiis permeated the Turkish asker. and the aftermath showed an increasing re- Iuctance on the part of small bodies of Turks to go into the mountains. or into solid Bulgarian villages. or anywhere a1ter dark. The cringing and fawnIng attitudes of body and soul-taugh. as the essence of wisdom to the helpless rayah by generations of forefathers passed through the first pest of fire and blood and rebellion ana disc!osed unsuspected fine battle qualities in the sIumbering Bulgar villager The conn. try passed throug the worst ideal that could daunt it's courage and was henceforth afraid of nothing. It pre- ferred "an end with horrors thar nor TOTS without end" It was ready for another revolution. The result sucb as IL Was-was thought worth achieving
 Since then the organization has been husbanding it's strength and waiting upon the diplomatic action of Europe. At the outset the patent fiasco of the A Austro-Russian Muerzstes program called for the placing of Macedonia under the control of the whole oon- cert of powers and the patience of the organization was here rewarded bvI Lord Lansdowne's definite step of Jan uary 1905 as the result of which after the fleet demonstration assessors ren- resenting the hitherto exclusive powers Of western Europe were added to the and Russian ones on the in ternational financial commission of In compelling the Sultan to accept the commission the powers established d broad foundation for European control. This op- perfume and important step withdrew from the itching paws of Austria and Russia. But with that the powers thought their duty done and let the suffering Macedonians con- sole themselves for actual misery with 2 provoking theory of internationaIiza- ton. The people upon whose necks he unspeakable Turkish yoke was forced five and a half centuries ago at | he fall of the kingdom of West Bull saria was tried and tormented to mad ness by the very mirages of alleviation | with which Europe would relieve its horrors.
 A comparison and a contrast to the 1rotracted tedious inefficiency of the powers towards Macedonia has just been given by the resolute energy with which England forced the Turk to