Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-19
ARMED COMPANY
OF GREEKS HERE
Part of Army Which Is to Over
throw MonarChial Gov
eminent.
ARE BEING UNIFORMED TODAY
VIII Enter National Rifle Association
TO Advance Workmanship
Forty thousand on Rolls.

Organizing military company to
teach sturdy Greeks in Utah Co bear
arms and for their education along
military lines. so Greeks are today
being measured for uniforms at the
siegel Clothing company and are pre-
pairing to place an order for military
rifles. then 20 complete their organiza-
ton with the selection Of officers and
uon-commissioned officers The COM
pany. Is is said contains mdny who
have served I'm the army Of King
George and has already had some
drill and instruction. The company
viii join the National Rife associa-
ton for the advancement OF mark
manship and viii participate as a ride
club IN the national rifle matches.
This company Is one % many scat
tered throughout the United States.
over 10000 Greeks in this country nov,
being included In the organization Be
hind the organization 90 this army of
Greeks on alien soil is story which
has been long in the telling and U.s.
unfinished yet
The INSTABILITY OF the throne Of
Greece has for some time been topic
Of comment by the European press and
dispatches from foreign sources have
been filed with the growth OF dissatis-
faction among the younger Greeks cs-
pecially II Is generally believed 10
America that the organized Greeks are
I'm sympathy with those in Greece who
might be termed revolutiouIsts They
have been IN America long enough to
firmly believe that the republican form
OF government Is superior Co e MON
arChy in the absolute or even con-
stitutional monarchy That 10 rs the
purpose Of the army being formed
gradually In the United states 20 some
day take up their cause and force the
issue. Is believed by many who have
been following the growth or the or
Eanization. The movement is declared
TO have started less than one year ago
and has progressed 30 quietly that In
many quarters where the companies
exist little Is known concerning them.
The members OF the companies declaI p
that It is patriotism OF the highest type
that first suggestci the plln. n uatHoit-
ism that harbors not less love for their
king. but greater love Tor Greece.
PATRIOTIC MOTIVE.
W q cannot ut thlIeQ Anarchists
protested a member Of the company
this morning because we are not OPP
posed to government In any sense OF
the word. We may be revolutionists
but not as that word ordinarily means.
We are revolutionists, though, IN that
We propose when we have the strength
to overturn things In Greece aud set
up a government that shall truly be Of
the people. There has been too little
progress In Greece under monarchial
government The country affords every
opportunity for the wealth Of its peo-
pie FOR their happiness and for their
enjoyment OF the rights which obtain
In the more advanced countries. over
burdened by taxation, hindered by the
administration Of public AFFAIRS I'm
every manner. the people are becoming
dissatisfied In such numbers that thou
sands Of men who should stay home
are leaving the country 60 earn their
living as laborers In America and else
where making the country a nation Of
women Many Of the men who are to-
day laboring here are men who. tf op-
portunities were offered in Greece
would be In the professions and skilled
trades Under a republican form Or
government we are satisfied chat things
would be different and that Greece.
instead Of losing In power
should There Is no reason except the
form of government which has caused
Greece TO assume its present position
when centuries ago Il was the center
about which all progress revolved."
The speaker was one OF the Greeks
enrolled In the company and who serv-
ed at one time as an officer i'm the
forces Of Greece. educated i'm Paris as
an engineer and a soldier
The legal status Of a company Of this
sort was presented "a an official Of the
department Of justice this afternoon
and he declared that he knows OF no
statute, constitutional provision or
treaty agreement which could hinder
the Organization or such companies
or the full realization Of its aims The
only question involved would be that
involved In case the companies bore
arms against this government He
said that the United States govern
ment has been cognizant for some
time that these organizations were be-
ing formed throughout the country. but
that no action TO prevent had been
taken and that IL was unlikely that any
would be taken, unless Appearance
wholly at variance with those now
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