Show bulgarians BULGA RIANS IN THE irhe COAL REGIONS this following description of a class of people in the coal regions of pennsylvania appears in the new york aqil and express it is to be hoped that it Is overdrawn the coal strike in the leaish regions is driving the hungarian HuG HuB garian and italian miners north into the wyoming valley this is good news for the miners of pottsville spottsville Potts ville but very bao bad news for the miners of tou the former are being rid of the presence of a horde of semi civilized misers who have made mining of ajl I 1 the low and debased classes of working menthe people who are loosely classed as the hungarians Hung Hunz arians are probably toe worst As a matter of tact hungarians Hung arians make a very verv small part of tile the class clas that has infested the coal regions ot of pennsylvania for more than twenty years tile the large majority are bulgarians Bulga Bulgar rians isab and Roum anians tins some of them are poles the poles were brought to tais laid country first and it was their introduction into the mines that led to a series of brou trou troubles bes finally culminated in the crimes of the motile mollie maguires the irian welsh and aad american miners have to thank for the increase in the number dumber of these despised people which followed the breaking up of that organization of murderers and thieves they became criminal they sought to gain tile the ascend ascendancy anck in the coal regions by murder and terrorism and therefore not only the interest oi 01 the employers but the fhe general welfare demanded that new men more subservient at least and wore more regardful of law should be bein in iv reduced trod into the state the bul carians are in pennsylvania because toe old miners could not be trusted it was impossible to leave the rich region at the mercy of men who resort to murder and rapine in ILI order to gain their end in a dispute as to the price which they should receive tor for their services there is very little sympathy sy m pathy to be wasted on the men man who are responsible for the presence of these people but bat it is a severe chastisement upon the innocent members of the tae 0 community om that these creatures should have been saddled upon it so long their only virtue is that they do not strike T they are willig to work for very ST small wa wages es because they live on almost notting no nothing twing their principal articles of food are the scraps thrown away at the slaughter houses bouses they live in groups thirty or forty of them occupy mccu py a shanty they do not retrain refrain from striking because they object to tile the principle but because they can save money from wages of sixty or sixty five cents a day there are no people in this country who are so BO unsavory as these bulgarians Bulga rians they ure bre an offense to every sense of a fa bainy iny civilized man when they have saved caved a few hundred dollars they go home invest in a farm and lor for the rest ol 01 their days live as landed proprietors if the chinese must go because they work tor for less than gaeir white competitors peti tors how hog much more important is it that these bulgarians Bulga rians should go who not only work for less and take their savings home with them but buc whose very ne is an outrage even upon ane olfactory organs of a pennsylvania dutchman we do not advocate the banishment of these bul carians ga rians but we refer to the point merely by y the for the purpose of asserting that thai if denis kearney has the right to be relieved of tile the presence of a clean chinaman the miners minert have the right to ask ak a k tor for the removal of a dirt dirty bulgarian what what is a matter of serious moment in the coal regions is that these bulga bulga rians rian are there in such numbers that wages wage sare are kept down and strikes are fostered it is probable that the reason for bringing these hese people here will never arise again and it would be a blessing to pennsylvania and t the h e country if they should go home at ai least that no more of them should come to the united states there are a hundred evils that would be reme died at least in a measure if there were no B u and 8 it is impossible to dis discover abood od that can come from their theft continuance I 1 e here h ere |