The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-27
l|lT|ONS GIVE Up
IHE|RB BLOOD AND
GOLD FOR NAUGHT.
Civilized European Powers
Look Idly on at Strug-
gle of Balkans
SEEK TO AVENGE AN
HISTORICAL CRIME
Plains, Created a Paradise,
q Are Destined to Remain
Subject to Rule OF
the Moselem
sx MAX MoRpAu.

4M4It AIlaCbtuS mere were AFS
Before peace with Italy was hastily
roncluded. Four against one--that APP
pears shocking to the natural feeling
that demands a fair ngiit The SYM
patty of the chfvalrous sporting mind
a,Ight easily be led astray by It.
Pierre Lott ts an example or this. He
sssas passionately espoused the cause
- Turkey. Ii is necessary 10 calm
/ cent imentai souls.
s# Turkey alone is probably stronger
8thnn all four Balkan States together.
She il a unity, while her assaiicrs are
1ndividualites. loosely bound to one
another. who have long past OF mu-
iuai hate To forget and who Will per-
IlaIs even on the hattietieid distrust
onc another. Turkey has tbs sea-
She occupies the center Of an arc, on
shs periphery III which her enemies
are disposed 10 the sober rechoner
4 Montenegrp. sieryia, bulgaria and
Greece appear 10 such disadvantage
against TURKEY that only intoieranie
ssisferings and desperate scorn of
death couid induce them to risk the
chance Of war.
Ayenss historical Crime.
The gallant little States have under
taken Ia avcnge IAN historical crime
and cleanse Europe of an ignominy.
j pity d civilized man who can reespi~
s1LAie tes,hinseir the course of events
iii tile Balkan peninsula during the
!. kst fsse hundred years without srow-
ing RED with shame.
Al, ths. end uf the middle ages south
3 WeSf Europe boosted of an Intense cni-
1ure yeung nations full of unspent
+ Vital power there Suffered into Euro
can civilization and found themselves
III the beginning OF highly prornls-
ing development. The Seryiars pro-
u, xsfS a.
T3aschan: warlibss heroes. such as En-
II 4sa4ryr asazasEs ~ he Esilaasasass "a IhEssl-
Aitaite tribe who brilliantly gave
proof of their power Of adoption by
a<iopiinF Christianity. the slave Ian
&uagc and the regular order OF state,
n went towards "a great future ahaer
= stssHs tx hesss5sssss H-te-as-
New states grew under the shadow
y pf old Byzhntlun. which. in spite Of
soyue appearance Of decay, WAS stili
she glorious heir ~ Athens and Rome.
There the language of Homer aud
Plato. with comparatively slight
changes. WAS still alive. There were
read Greek poets and thinkers whom
n the rest OF Europe Only knew In feeble
trausiatIons not ut all. There they
possessed the gospel in the original
language in which the disciples OF
Christ had written IT. There were
preserved the refined manners, taste
4 Tor art and the more distinguished
crafts. methods of government law
4 the art of war and the scientific pai'o-
sophlcal interests of classical anti
guilty.
Byxantium sets Example
when the dark night of barharisni
law over eastern Europe II was COM
parativeIy light in Constantinopie.
Evzantium gave the northern nations
who had established themselves on
5sx. 4. 4NA -
example of political organization
Ii Whsch they. gradually put In place OF
their anarchical tumult Daughters
Of fsyzantine rrnpefefs taught the
tsernnan princes to whom they were
married coed manners and social de-
cnrum. Ii one wished to build beau
Nfifut cathedrals TO Gods honor: II
q princes wished TO dwell in splendid
palaces they had them erected by
Byzantine architects. Rich silks, pur-
PIE brocade stufrs, artistic jewelry
and goldsmiths' work were brought
from Byxantium. The whole Eu-
ropean art Of painting proceeded from
Byzantine studios.
II is the fashion to speak contemp-'
tu0usiy Of later Byzantinm. That liz
ealHmHy. A people whose last EN-
neror. CONSTANTINE Palaeoiogus. fell
like one OF Lfvy's heroes. weapon In
hand; whose fugitives, In their own
M country obscure small average men,
became the creators of Italian renais-
sance, which means the whole Gull
tura OF modern times, had not played
their part to the end.
Into this fermenting world In which
the new grand destines of nations
were working themselves out there
burst suddenly in 1855 Wild Asiatic
@ tribe under the leadership OF de-
Il scendant Of the robber Erthogrul. who
fl.reafcned II n hundred years iong
with fro and sword and subdped It
FINALLY by conqnertng ConstantSople
IN 1853.
Crescent Replaces Cross.
The with Of May, 1853, when the
double cross was thrown down from
tha dome OF Hagia Sophia, perhaps
the most illustrious church OF Chris
a4ianfty and replaced by the Crescent.
remains the most humiliating date in
the history of Europe. Not on ac-
count OF the ascension of thr Eres-
cent but because the Turks planted 1t
there. Islam itself ID not incempati-
BID with culture. The Arabian
q a liSshsa created In sBaEdad, q flourish
iux civilization. Under the Moors
spain was the high school OF Chris
81 tan Europe. The Arabs, as soon as
they had forsaken their desert tents
and gone TO live under roofs. fostered
thu arts and acieuces. But the Turks
This mixture Of Dyasgatais and
sEeldiuke Is a branch OF that inner
Asiaflc Mengol tribe whose barharity
- .znpnearg incprrfgs bic. The Chinese
designated their Mongol neighbors
.stha savagess and built the great wall
mgninst them Europe only knew
them III the hordes of AttiIa and
! I1janEhts Khan. They have never
4 Iseen capable az being ANYTHING else