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Show OLD WORLD TYRANNIES. Whether the present unrest in Macedonia will culminate in a great war is still under un-der the veil of the future, but it is certain cer-tain that it ought to. It ought to sweep the Turk trom Europe and that accomplished accom-plished it ought to imitate the fire that in great conllagrations sometimes burns back against the wind until all the adjacent states can be purified by the flame; for Turkey is no more cruel than is the rule of some of the near-by states that are more or less directly under Russian guidance. Take Roumania for instance. The persecution of the Jews in that state is more terrible to bear than the swift death which the Sultan orders for those in his power whom he hates. If anyone does not appreciate a government that is free from creed rules, such as one ought to study the history of those states of southeastern south-eastern Europe, where either the Mohammedan or the Greek church creed has precedence. None of them are more than a few hours' journey from where the Savior was crucified, but their histoiy for almost the entire nineteen hundred years that have rolled away since that event has been one long tragedy. All the gentler instincts of those races seem to have been bred out of them; they need a devasting war arid that should be followed fol-lowed by the locomotive and it should be accompanied accom-panied by an influx of the gontler, more generous, better informed and dominant races of western Europe. They should carry with them the printing print-ing press and the first expenditure should be fr free school houses. What General Wood, backed by the government govern-ment of the United States did in Cuba, should be done by Germany and Great Britain In eastern Europe. If our war with Spain has justification In the plea- that it was In the interest of humanity, that 1 Spain's cruelties had become intolerable in Cuba, the same justification could well be pleaded for in- H terposing and compelling justice in eastern Eu- H rope. We mentioned Roumania above. It may be Hj well to briefly refer to the treatment of the Jews Hj there. H' There aro some 2G0,000 of that race thero. H They were born there, they and their ancestors H before them have lived there much longer than H the Anglo-Saxon has occupied this continent. Let Hj us note the rule that is upon them. They are H mercilessly taxed; they must serve In the army, M but all promotion is denied them; they pay toward H the establishment and maintenance of all public H schools, but are generally excluded from them H and when admitted are taxed a special fee; they H are not permitted either voice or vote in the M Chamber of Commerce. They can own no rural M land nor engage in agriculture. They can sell no H liquors or tobacco and are excluued from public B service and employment on public works. They H are being driven into the small towns and are M more and more a burden on their wretched coun-M coun-M trymen already there. Chief Rabbi Gaster cornel corn-el pares their condition to an animal under the alr-M alr-M pump gasping for life. M In his speech at the laying of the corner stone H of the war college, President Roosevelt declared m that whether we would or not we must be a great m war power among the world's nations. It is time. M The army and navy should be perfected, for the M cry that sounded from Cuba, the cry wrung from M intolerable sufferings through immeasurable M cruelties, is sounding, and for hundreds of years H has been sounding in all, the countries surround- H ing that spot on which the cross was uplifted, and M sometime it will come to us as direct as did that B from the reconcentrados of Cuba, and It will have B to be heeded and answered. The nineteenth cen- M tury abolished the ownership of the bodies of men M In civilized lands. The twentieth century will have H to do something to emancipate enslaved souls. |