Show I 1 1 SCHUYLER ON BULGARIA no ho Justi flea r the Rising in rou I 1 maicia t mai iia U L 11 at L 11 I 1 U alic ti 1 bac of the Bulga bulgarian riAll atric atrocities it fes in and 1877 exi eugene 0 eno schuyler was one of tile alic persons per ons aitho went to bulgaria and macedonia to 0 o investigate le attic matter from that aha time until the close of tile russian w war a r mr w was a s ko 41 tri cosely identified ic d the 0 v aj L that had for its object the securing of the rights of the in bulgaria aria lie was one of the men inen who 0 drew up tip schewe scheme of government for a bulgarian Bulga run province which was submitted to the conference of con s tar a z nd la in the I 1 north am american ri sot for lie he publishes an article tracing the history of bulgaria bul e arla since the conference re ejected tho the scheme lieuie sc prepared by general ignatieff Ign Igna alief sir Ne Gallan and himself the treaty of san stefano negotiated after tile the war kett kept closely to the boundary boundaries acs ics of bulgaria as laid by the conference bilt bill rando made the new state a tributary principality instead of a self D governing turkish sli brov itice As rei ased by the COD congress gress of berlin the treaty reduced the limits of bulgaria by cutting off the whole of macedonia by limiting the boundaries ou on the southeastern side and further by dividen dividing m the country into two parts on the line of the balkans mr schuyler cr claims that the part of the country which lad bad suffered least front from the turks was avas given practical independence while eastern ron kou melia with a denser more intelligent cut more educated slid and richer i population which had ball been the scene of nearly till all the massacres in 1876 was made again 0 1 a I turkish province ire ile contends contend a that constitutional goi affo ernnie nt in roumelia Bo umelia worked better belter than in ili bulgaria but thit that much that might have live been accomplished failed through I turkish disapproval therefore he be justifies tile rising in roil itou melia amclia I 1 the new point presented by mr shugur iyler is that nelin in uniting itself to bulgaria cannot lie accused of a breach of stipulations irions bemuse because it signed no treaty Ito umelia elia ld had been recognized by turkey as a part of tile the autonomous principality of Bula bulgaria aria in ili the alic treaty of san ste fano this was in ill accordance with a desire of the population it was ma made tie a turkish province contrary to the desire of tho the people anti and lit in the selfish interest of lie great powers As neither bul bulgaria c iria nor servia was reprise represented died ai at berlin add as they did not sign the treaty mr schuyler contends that they are arc not bound by it I 1 independent of this point it may inny be said that the action in bulgaria and roumelia Roum clia is il the line of precedent rc at the con congress ress it at paris lit in 1858 Wal Wallac lachia liia and moldavia inere cac made separate principalities this was contrary to the of the people when alx ir request for union was denied the people of the separate provinces inces entered upon a movement which ended lit in the union of the ano provinces in ili 1859 the powers acl refused to interfere e ond and turkey it as compelled to acquiesce the outcome of the present movement will probably lie much like that of the movement w li and thi this s will 11 pave tit way for another movement lilt looking to the further ext extension ell of the hale of inter ocean |