United labor bulletin., 1913-07-12

sadly crippled-and instituted systemauc ptah
of military organization, on the model OF tne
greater European nations
The result was that Turkey feared to wiring
from Montenegro all the privileges the sultan
had really gained under the last treaty
During the next fourteen years there we're
many covert outbreaks along the frontier In
fact, such affairs have always been regular top
les OF gossip in Montenegro up TO the present
time.
1t came in 1876. when Servia declared war all
by herself against Turkey. and Montenegro threw
in the whole force and weight of her 10000 In
habitants with Servias 100000 There had
been some rumor of a Russian declaration OF war
against the sultan. But Montenegro did not wait
for this. That was not the Montenegrin way
Fight for your brothers against any odds, that
is the Montenegro creed. and Prince Nicholas
acted upon it The blood of Tchernagora ran as
hotly of old But there was more than hot
blood and desperate courage TO throw into the
balance for the principality this time There was
the result of all the scientific preparations Mich
olas had been making for fourteen years.
His increased standard of efficiency told right
at the start when he was able TO rally 10000 men
to his standard-the largest army Montenegro
had ever put in the field Instead of waiting for
the Turks to attack. he pressed the war into the
enemy's country.
BY means of a series of combats that he after
ward loved to style "Homeric in his moments OF
reminiscence the prince compelled Niksic to capit
ulate. achievement which. in his peoples opin-
ion. overshadowsd all the others OF the war. for
Niksic had stood for centuries a threatening out
post of the Moslem power at their very gates
Then. unwearied by the months of steady fight
ing. the prince countermarched his army to the
south. pressed to the coast, and for the
first time in the centuries of Montenesro's
istence the Montenegrn eagles bathed In the
brine of the Adriatic Antivari and Dulciguo
both fell and Skutari-the bloody Skutari" Of
the Montenegrin ballads-was besieged. when
news of peace came.
Well might Nicholas sit back content In
succession of campaigns that had met with
tiers in every direction He had reduced every
Turkish fortress within striking distance of his
frontiers. Skutari.
So passed more than thirty years-eventful
they would have been called in any other part of
Europe but somewhat dreary for Montenegro
So long ago 1865. OF his own freewill and
without any pressure-indeed in the face OF the
opposition of many OF his advisers-he vountar
ny granted the country constitution and aoro-
gated his despotic powers in form at least-for IS
a matter OF fact long Nicholas lives tho
government of Montenegro will be benevolent
despotsm. by and with the glad consent OF the
people.
Since then he has granted other reforms and
has done everything possible to promote the in
dividuality and talent for selfgovernment OF his
subjects,
1t is fierce. ruthlessly fanatical crusaders
that like best to think of Nicholas and his peo
pie such crusaders followed Richard the
LionHeart to within sight OF the walls OF Jeru-
salem. OF the same caliberN as the Franks OF the
Fourth Crusade who, under Dandolo. Count Bald
win and Montserrat stormed Constantinople and
set up on the shores OF the Bosphorus a LAT,
empire that might have checked the Mosle-l ~
wave had Europe backed them