Bisbee daily review., 1912-11-10
Tells Of Troubles in Balkan
States With Turkish Enemies
Author of Macedonia Its aces and Their Future" AL
though Partisan of Chris tan Races in Near East
Gives Full Explanation Of Causes for War Between
Ottoman Empire and All les of Montenegro.

ed. the Young Turks fell back into all
the habits of the Old. There were ar
rests on suspicion. secret court-mar-
tial torture. outrage, and. above all
the systematic flogging by troops OF
every male Macedonian in village aft
or village in every area suspected OF
disaffection,
This year the nemesis began. The
internal organization took its resolh-
ton Ii aimed once more al the end
with horrors" IL threw bombs in
Turkish market towns, and the Turks
retaliated with wholesale massacre.
The refugees fled to Bulgaria, and
presently an agitation for war and
speedy end had seized the nation. and
swept on their feet a pacific minis
Try and a timid king
A Miracle Of Duty
II Is an event that Bulgaria has
modified Ii is a miracle that the
arms as her allies. The jealousies
and the feuds of these four races have
been the byword OF Europe.
Greeks and Bulgarians are separat-
ed by every barrier of interest, his
tory and temperament. To the Greeks
these descendants Of mixed Slay and
Tartar stock are still barbarians. 70
the Lively. subtle and eloquent Greek
the slow and laborious Bulgarian
seems duh. But while the Greek is
content to live in the past, the Bull
garian, burdened with no tradition and
no ancient culture. has mastered mod
ern physical science, revels in econ
omics and is at home in the liter
AZURE OF the kindred Russian IanGu-
age.
Bulgarians Organize
II the Greek is distinguished by a
certain idealism and Imagination, tlie
Bulgarian has developed an inordinate
power of work, a capacity for organ
ization. and a habit Of accurate and
honest thinking. He is the German
OF the Balkans as the Greek is the
FreHchmau. Before the Young Turk
ish revolution, the energies Of these
two races were mainly bent on cutting
each others throats in the disputed
field of Macedonia. where a wretched
village, unconscious OF its history and
Indifferent to ethnography, can be
made by threats and brides and muir
deTs to transfer itself lightly from one
racial church to the other
The relations of Seryians and Bull
garians were scarcely happier, though
both are Slavs. and can with a little
patience and guesswork understand
zach others languages. The
Montenegrans, separated geographt-
cally, and by their gallant history
are. of course, pure Seryians. but il
- al, h.
tenegran court was accusing the Ser
Wan court Of plotting assassination
against IT,
Against the Common Enemy
1t is the Young Turks who have
worked the miracle of today's unity
Abdul Hamid divided to rule. He ncf-
er prosecuted all his subject races
with equal severity. When Greece
went TO war on behalf of Crete, he
began to- confer fayors on the Bull
gaTians When the Bulgarians made
their formidable secret society TO
achieve the autonomy of Macedonia,
he took the Greeks 10 his bosom aud
knew how to purchase their services
against the more-dreaded race.
But the young men who overthrow
Abdul were at least impartial. Their
yoke fell with equal severity on every
Christian race alike. While they were
flogging bulgarian peasants they
maintained in all their ports a rigid
boycott of Greek commerce. They
have allowed their troops to massacre
this summer indifferently in Bulgar-
ian regions of Macedonia and on the
borders OF Montenegro.
Discord is Lost
AT last the Balkan races have lost
their discords in the hatred of the
common enemy For two or even
three years past the reconciliation
has proceeded. The native Macedon-
ian rebels and agitators were the first
10 come to terms for the sake of
their common fatherland. Then Il
was noticed that Greek and Bulgar
ian students in big patriotic groups
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