The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-01-02
From the New York Herald,

2 FROM the new 1OTh ASTdlu.
The quick ascendency Of Bulgaria
the third evolution which has elevated
the Bulgars from among the opposed
n the lowly masses. Twice before
Bulgaria has existed as a free and in
dependent nation. and each time she
has known h glories of worldwide
influence. In the past her territory
! was far greater than the present Bull
garia n perhaps greater than will
be the new Bulgaria recreated from
the tunbling ruins of the Ottoman
Empire.
Bulgarian traditions extend to A. d.
679, when q tribe called Bulgarians ap-
peared from the direction of the Dan
They We're not Slav and history has
hot determined il they were Uralhans,
Finnish, Tartars OF Turks.
But these Bulgarians who settled
south Of the Danube were a powerful
tribe, and their desire to conquer wa
backed by a strong system of state
organization. Asparuch knew how to
organize his forces into a government,
and 1t was under him that the first
J 6emblance Of government appeared
among the Bulgarians. His people be-
came military and accustomed to dis
cipline and to leadership. Those fac
tors We're absent from the Balkan Sla-
p ,OH 1AoSS - IN NCIS = lSSSoSol
the single tribal. territorial and politi-
cal whole found in the Bulgarians I'M
der Asparuch.
n state organization was effected
on the ruins of numerous tribes which
had wed In the Balkan peninsula for
generations. History says the Slavs
reached and settled hat country first
In the third century. and that even
then they found the ruins of towns and
roads left by the Romans. But those
early occupants of the territory left
no descendants, and the first tradi-
tons of the land really sprang from
the ~Bulgarians under Asparuch.
Adopt Christianity.
An epoch in the early career OF the
the Slavs, in the reign of Boris,
adopted Christianity, in 1854. This faith
was adopted for purely political rea-
sons, and 1t had a great influence in
ternally and externally.
Internally, it brought about a close
union between the Bulgars and the
Slavs and by means of a common lit
erature it placed on an equality the
habits, customs and language of both.
Externally Bulgaria appears as an en-
p1re in the congress of nations. On
the geographical maps of hal day Bul-
garia Is shown as an empire extending
across the Balkan peninsula and down
nearly to the Bosphorus.
Following the adoption of Christian
ity there is no mention in historical
records of tribal or racial division be-
tween the invaders and the c~onquerors
The conquerors contented themselves
with establishing a great Bulgarian
state, and they adopted the language
of a mixed mass of people and assim-
Hated the races.
Simeon the Great, son of Boris, be-
came the first tsar of Bulgaria, and
with him occurs the first mention OF
such a title. At the same time the
first Bulgarian archbishop was created
q patriarch, and there history records
the division between and cooperation
of the ptate and church. These titles,
however, were not recognized by the
Byzantine Empire. then the creates
on the earth. until the reign of Peter
son Of Simeon. During Peters reign
the Bulgarians prospered. but there
was a weakness in its external affairs
1t failed to make allies. 1T became ar
rogant in it's success and in the sue
ceeding reign, of Boris H.. it antagon-
lied the Byzantine Empire, and the