The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-06
DRIVING OUT THE SAVAGE.

The accounts of the atrocities com
mitted by the Turks in their wild
flight before the Bulgarian armies, read
like the narratives of inhuman atroci-
ties perpetrated in the dark ages. To
read again of such horrors as actually
occurring within our own time and to
be a matter of current telegraphic
news seems like setting our times back
a thousand years.
1t is surely 2 matter of congratula-
tious 10 all Christendom that the saw.
age Turks are being driven out Of Eu-
rope. They have been there altogether
TOO long, and the atrocities they have
committed have been so shocking as to
deaden the sensibilities Of those upon
whom they were inflicted for more than
the spirit of humanity and of revolt
against inhuman practice struck deep
into the hearts OF the Bulgarian peo-
pie and they are driving out their vile
oppressors.
1t is good TO see that the Bulgarisns
are determined to have no interference G
on the part of the European powers
In their successful prosecution of the
war. They will not halt short Of Con.
stantinople. They have the Turkish
army driven disorganized mass to the
last Turkish line of entrenehment
There is little likelihood that this line
can stay the advance of the victorious
Bulgarians, who are now Joined also by
the Servians, and are sweeping every
thing before them, They will dictate
peace at Constautinople, just as they
have claimed the right to do, and that
right should certainly be accorded
them; and these terms of peace can
be nothing less than the expulsion of
Turkish rule altogether from Europe.
The question may fairly arise in the
minds Of the statesmen Of Europe
whether it is not better to take this
present occasion to terminate the OF.
toman power everywhere For il is
beyond question that il the Turks arc
merely driven ont of Europe and al
lowed To continue their savage sway
in Asia Minor, they VIII revengefp'1,
iuhict such massacres upon, Axfien
and other Christians in their power a.
Will pale all such preyi ous massacros
and will horrity the world. The Turk
ish power is absolutely broken ond
now is the fitting time for the nations
of Europe to say that this power Is
broken for good, in all parts Of ,bo
world.
The BulgaIim allies will naturally
spportiou tb conquered regions amona
themselyeS Indeed, it is said thai So
whole g"gramme was fully agreed
upon ysfore war was declared b..
the /orid has not been apprisod yo,
rs what that programme is tbona,
y"ortlon of it is doubtless divnIroa -.
me dispatch from Belgrade which ssv.
nat 9erVia Is going TO annex most If
orlpaLar and kossovo, and Monterocra
VII take Skutari and a part of NJ;
azar' Bulgaria, doubtless. will cIai,, \
or conquest in Thrace. Grecce r.;n I
accorded portion OF Macedor;,
wen as Nrete. and there is mgpos
on that Constantinoplo itself ma. no
ane a buier Drincipality under tho
'iht control of the powers. which
Qua be an extremely danperors sit
non = and 1t Is doubtful indeed. il
70 bniRarianS can be brought 10 ac
pt IT. for that city is just spoil or
g war.
inc great thing, however, is the driv. =
out Of the Turk and the release Of \
e ChrlStian populations of southeast.
Europe from continued inbumar
-oGities, inflicted repeatedly in spite
rHe reforms promised by the Treaty
neri'n' and not insisted upon by tho 2
"ers' because OF tho iealousies Of Tho
Ncrs among one another NJ
mat threatened ".iehad.' ~ b.I.
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