| Show THE TREATY OF BERLIN THAT the treaty of berlin was gravely ignored in the election and installation of prince ferdinand as king of bulgaria is well understood through press dispatches but perhaps the treaty itself or r the portion of it which th tha bulgarians Bulga rians and their ally have violated may not be so generally understood when russia set out with the determination of crossing the turkish frontier nine years ago the only pretext a slim cne as coming from russia f tor or so doing was the fa fact c t that the christians in the upper turkish provinces had been slaughtered and otherwise persecuted by ottoman fanatics being powerless to help themselves aid had to come from without and russia supplied it becoming thus a semipro semi pro ate over the country referred to the history of that bloody conflict the desperation of the muscovites onslaught and the stolid hardy resistance of the son of the crescent is a matter of history but when the terms of peace had to be arranged russia found she would not cot be permitted to be alone as she had been all the time while conquering the peace the other powers of europe especially austria and germany had to participate and this eventuated the treaty of berlin the provision which russia co complains has been ignored is the one providing pro viding that bulgaria shall have no ruler without the consent of ef all the si sina signa na tories to the treaty and not only rave have none of them formally assented but three russia turkey and france have formally objected to the proceeding and repudiated ferdinands authority there would ordinarily be here abundant materials of a i combustible nature to kindle a tire chobe lurid glow would overspread the entire continent but in the present temper of Ear european diplomat diplo mata 9 no one seems willing tu to set it off yer haps it will come anyway it I 1 is certainly within the tae probabilities A nation like russia so 0 o powerful war its power is almost unwieldy though us its greatness is not apt to squander hundreds of thousands of lives and bd billions ui or dollars in the task ot of risking herself recognized and felt bathe on ane western bhore ot of the black se sea and ami then permit her prestige to be bc destroyed in a night by a mere apat rt who represents nothing and nobody without doing something more tuan merely repudiate him |
