The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-16
BULCARIAASKS FOR AUTONOMY
 OF HER PEOPLE

A reader of the Daily Times, prob ably of Bulgarian birth, hands this paper a clipping from the National Herald of New York, a newspaper evidently published in the interests of the Bulgarian people. Without any desire to pass upon the merits of the statements contained in the arti- cle, it is printed as showing that the Bulgarians, like other nations, have their own racial and territorial prob 1ems growing out of the great war, and although Bulgaria was allied with Americas enemies, it may not be amiss for the people of this country to be enlightened as to the Bulgarian viewpoint. The article is as follows:
 From 1898 to 1878 the Bulgarian people bore the double yoke of Turk ish political oppression and Greek ecclesiastical tyranny. In 1878, when Bulgaria was liberated, the monstrous diplomatic congress at Berlin gave back to Turkey the Bulgarian prov inces of Macedonia and Thrace, to- gether with 3,000,O00 people. This un- just act paved the way for bloody rev. olutions and finally climaxed into the Balkan wars of 1912-1913 and the very recent worlds conflict.
 "In 1913 Bulgaria was treacherous- ly attacked by her former allies, Greece and Serbia, on the south and west, and also by Rumania on the north and Turkey on the southeast. The result was that the Bulgarian province of Macedonia fell into the hands of Serbia and Greece. Turkey retook Adrianopole district and Ru- mania grabbed big slice of Bulga- ria's richest wheat province, Dob rudja.
 And now Bulgaria is once more brought to the seat of judgment in Paris. Her territorial possessions are again threatened, if the telegrams coming from Paris are true. More of her people are about to be cut off from the mother country and given to more despotic rulers than the Turks were. Why? Just because she at tempted, as any other nation in her place would have done, to liberate her people oppressed by Greece and Ser bia, after all her repeated efforts to get her lost territory back completely failed.
 Instead of correcting the grave mistakes made in Berlin in 1878 and thus avoiding more wars in the future, the Paris conference today will only fertilize the soil for more bloody revolutions and wars, if Ma cedonia, Dobrudja and Thrace are not given back to the rightful owner Bulgaria. The Greeks, the Serbs and the Rumanians, while insisting that the principle of self-determina- tion should be applied elsewhere where they know they are in the majority, here in Macedonia, Dobrud- ia and Thrace, they ignore this prin- cipal entirely, because they know that the overwhelming majority is Bulgarian
 "When Greece, Serbia and Rumania claim the right to unite their own peo- pie, why should not Bulgaria have the same right to claim unity of her peo- pie? And if nations who fought yes terday on the side of Germany are today recognized as independent na- tions, is it unjust that the Macedo- nian Bulgarians, who fought in the ranks of the allied armies, should claim the right to unite with their mother country, Bulgaria, or at least exist independently We should not punish Bulgaria by leaving innocent and martyred Macedonia under Greek and Serbian oppression.
 "The only delegation that is against taking away from Bulgaria more ter ritory is that of the United States, thank God. Let us hope that the just and impartial diplomacy of the United States will prevail over the selfish diplomacy of old Europe"
 The article concludes with some a1 legations of atrocities committed up-