Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-09-04
DISTRESS CALL FROM RULcARIANs

fears have been realized and the
Balkan peoples, urged on by the CAPT
talist cliQues and the imperial parties.
are now engaged in an appalling war
among themselves. This war, which
was never officially declared by Bull
garia, has now reached it's climax and
is attended by such atrocities, carnage
and terrible sacrifice as were not wit
messed during the war with the
Turks. From Widen on the Danube
to Aegaen Sea battles have been
fought which for cruel fury find no
parallel in the history of war. - The
troops have been melted against each
other Off the last 10 days. Mad on
slaughts and furious attacks are cover
ing the battlefield with countless hui
man sacrifices whilst Macedonia is be-
ing ruined and her innocent people ex-
terminated. Neither party could show
any decisive result even if the hostili-
ties were suspended. All reports in
the foreign press concerning Bulgar-
ian, Servian or Greek victories are
purely imaginary, for as a matte of
fact, there have been no victories. The
parties maintain the same position
and there is but little reason to hope
for any material alteration in the
situation by continuing the hostilities
The number of victims to the massacre
and butchery has recently been enorm-
GUS; during the last 10 days 35-4O per
cent of the men in the fighting lines
have been killed or wounded. This
is what christian warfare has develop
ed into. The wounded officers and
soldiers declare that the war with
Turkey was but childs' play when COM
pared with the war among the "allies. =
The plight of Bulgaria is indeed a sad
one. Her enemies on the battlefield
are Servia, Greece and Montenegro,
while one is attacked in the rear by
Rumania, whose army has forged
ahead to Varna on the Danube seizing
the telegraph and wireless installa-
tons, thus completely cutting us off
from the outside world. Bulgaria is
being oppressed from all sides. Greece
now claims new territory. Instead of
the Great Bulgaria." in place of the
"hegemony in the Balkans with a pru-
dent king at its head as dreamed of
by the inspired patriots Bulgaria
stands on the brink of a precipice in
which her Independent national ex-
istence will be buried. The reasons
of thew ar may be looked for in the
commissioning politics of the royal
ist party and the capitalists who saw
in thew ar means of extending their
territory. But alone, they are weak
and the royalists and capitalists can
not rely upon their strength SO they
pray for assistance first to one then
to the other, and family to the Great
Powers. But they are actually the
blind tools of the Powers who, on
their part, are conducting campaign
against the Balkan states. The Euro
pean imperialism is just as much re-
sponsible for the Balkan atrocities as
the capitalist and royalist cliques.
The wretched agents of this imper-
ialism have brought about the war by
means of promises and encourage
ments to Turkey, In the same way as
they have melted the Balkan states
one against the other. They viii now
intervene in order to get as much as
possible for themselves and to get
the weary and ruined Balkan States
forever in their clutches. There is
only one way out for the Balkan peo-
pie. way whihc was discovered 10
years ago. For 10 years we Social
Democrats have recommended this
course and same has been sanctioned
by the International. I refer to the
uniting the whole of the Balkan races
In one democratic Balkan republic.
Only In this way can the Balkan peo-
PIE insure their national independonce