Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-19
GREECE ASKS

the Mohammedan population by the Bull
garians during the Greco-Turkish war was
officially confirmed by the British foreign
minister. Sir Edward Grey's accusations
We're based on the British consular reports
from Macedonia and Thrace.
Worse Than the Huns.
"Forgive us. oh gracious ghosts OF the
runs. If. In an endeavor to describe the
Bulgarian atrocities, we nave wronged
You by comparing their deeds to the ira
dltions of horror you have left to pos
terlty,' wrote Signor Luciano Magrini.
war correspondent of Messaggero of Rome
and the Secolo of Milan, after his visit to
Macedonia and Thrace during the second
Balka war, when he beheld the remains
of the towns and villages burned by the
Bulgarians and the corpses Of Greek and
turkish peasants slain or burned alive by
the soldiers of Ferdinand"
The fiendish fury of the Bulgar is PEE
culiar 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 1000 years, since he in
vaded and held the territory he now
occupies. he has shown himself, once the
surface of s-uperimposed civilization Is
scratched. to be the 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 honor but
a means of dipping an enemy.
The Greeks are the outposts of Euro
pean civilization of which Greece herself
was the mother. Never in all her annals
has she shown one evidence of Tartar
brutality. On the contrary. a national
spirit OF force and idealism. a respect for
the laws that We're even the expression OF
the aspirations of the whole people have
from time immemorial been hers. Her
armies fought against an army barbara in
it's methods-she fought beside ar army
even more inhuman-yet she conducted
her campaign according to the rules of
warfare laid down by the nations of Eu-
rope. Is her honor now to be besmirched?
Is she to stand by and permit her racial
soul to be defiled by calumny? Shame on
those who would commit such injustice.
Could the members of any nation, save
the cruel Tartar. have taken as his me-
mentoes and spoils of war portions of his
victims, dried in the smoke of their burn
ing homes? Yet this was the common
habit of the Bulgarian trooper.
Such, and such always, has been the
concept of heroism among the Tartar
clans. The race that invaded the north
ern portion of the Balkan peninsula 1.2O
years ago has proved true to its parent
blood. Bulgaria now is awake to her dis
graced position among the nations. Shall
she be permitted to endeavor to clear her
garments from the stain of innocent blood
by heaping false accusations upon her
| neighbours? What must we think of those
who assist her in this last and most cow
ardly crime? The 300. 600 Greeks of Ameri-
ca call upon the millions of Americans:
"Give the Bulgarians your money; we
ask only your justtce!"
Greece and Bulgaria.
From the sat spectacle of a nation CALI
ing for material help to foreign lands we
beg you to turn to the inspiring vision OF
a nation silently bearing her burdens and
intelligently repairing her losses. with a
unanimous effort that unites prince and
peasant. colonial immigrant and the work
err at home. We invite you to consider
not only the self-denial of the Greeks OF
America, who gave their savings. often
their all, to aid their country. but also
the patriotism of the young man. who.
even now, are leaving their lucrative en-
pigments and the safe home of their
adoption to return to Greece and enlist in
the army that will toll. not alone in It's
military capacity but as the workmen
who must slave to construct where de-
struction has passed and to bring pros
perity once more to the waste places left
desolate by massacre and pillage.