Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-30

| eminent scenes of unparalleled hor-
ror. The Bulgarian bishop of drama
/ issued a forceful protest against the
deeds of the soldiers OF his own coun-
| try. while the newspapers of Sofia
are full OF admissions and even boasts
that are hair-raising
Whosoever undertakes to defend
the barbarians OF Bulgaria Will find
/ himself face to face with such a mass
of hideous facts that he must find his
/ position either ridiculous or unten-
able.
The fiendish fury of the Bulgar Is
peculiar to his race-the Tartar. He
has no place among European nations.
He is OF the same stock as the Huns
and vandals that overran Europe.
For more than thousand years,
since he invaded and held the terri
tory he now occupies. he has shown
himself. once the surface of superim-
posed civilization is scratched. to be
tho ferocious. blood-mad descendant
of the ancestors whose boast and
glory was war. torture, pillage and
rape. to whom the ideal of truth was
a laughing stock and the oath of hon
or but a means of dipping an enemy.
The same conditions pertain in cen
trial Asia today. Go find the Picking
Gazette and read the records of the
Tai-Ping rebellion in China-so awful
that even the Kurdish officials and
the Kahns OF India protested. The
little brother to the Tartar does not
affiliate easily with the rule OF mercy
and self-control.
No European could have committed
or permitted such deeds as Bulgaria
has set TO her discredit. At her door
alone lies the incredible but only too
well verified slaughter of 100000 nom
combatant Mohammedans - women
and children-drowned, burned, shot
or bayonetted in his CORY advance
against the Turks at Loule-Bourgas.
He turned his murderous frenzy
against the non-combatants of Greece
when the armies of that nation were
driving him from Macedonia. All this
IS no secret BY letters. photographs,
official examinations, national investi
cations, IL is all verified. Like the
Tartar that he is. the Bulgarian Stays,
when victorious. from sheer lust of
slaughter and national enthusiasm and |
when defeated he raped, tortured and !
slew In sheer hysteria of revenge.
TIE Greeks are the outposts of 1
European civilization of which Greece !
herself was the mother. Never IN all .
her annals has she shown an evidence !
Of Tartar brutality. On the contrary. |
4 national spirit OF force and ideaiism, !
q respect for the laws that were even /
the expressions of the aspirations of |
the whole people have from time i'm
been hers. Her armies
fought against an army barbarlc In
It's methods-she fought beside an
army even more inhuman-yet she
conducted her campaign according to /
the rules of warfare laid down by the |
nations OF Europe. Is her honor now
10 be besmtrched? IL she to stand b.
and permit her racial soul TO be de-
He'd by calumny? Shame on those i
who would commit such injustice! Il
Could the members of any nation, save
The cruel Tartar, have taken as his \
and spoils of war portions
II his victims. dried in the smoke \
Of their burning homes? Yet this n
vas the common habit of the I;Glgar-
an trooper. On the persons. Of the
prisoners taken by the Greeks during
he last war were found innumerably
uch CHASTITY trophies-that only too
recorded the slaughter OF
men, women and babies. and not only
laughter. but hideously dismsmbered
A Bulgarian priest who was brought
o Athens was found wearing a neck
ace OF such unspeakable "souveni-s."
his inhuman soldiery seemed wholly
of the enormity of their
Lcts. On the contrary. they had look
d for praise and hero worship upon
heir victorious return. Such. and
UGH always. has been the concept OF
eroism among the Tartar clans. The
ace that invaded the northern portion
Z the Balkan peninsula 1.200 years
go has proved true TO it's parent
Iood. Bulgaria now is awake to her