Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1920 — LAND OF RACIAL TEMPESTS [ARTICLE]

LAND OF RACIAL TEMPESTS

Dalmatia Has Beep an Unquiet Spot In AU the Years es Her . Tragic History. / Dalmatia, elongated so that It is nowhere nipre than 35 miles wide, tapering dowri to but a mile at Cattaro, has been swept by continuous racial tempests for the last eight centuries. Croats and Serbians constitute the SlaVic element in Dalmatia, speaking the" same 1 language, but employing two alphabets. The Serbs use the Russian, T and the Croats the LKtln letters and alphabet. The Latin influence Is more prevalent in the cities, the story of Dalmatia being the reason therefor. In the middle ages t|>e Dalmatians were people wlthout the consciousness of a country; During the Slav influx Into Illyria the Invaders encountered little opposition, except In the seaport towns. The Latin element in the cities resist-, ed the migra|lpn tod thus engendered I the strife for supremacy which- perrists to this day. Much of the early Dalmatian rivalry was economic, the tradesmen and farmers naturally wishing 1 to exchange their goods with the Hungarians. The . maritime cities preferred to do business with Venice, which controlled the Adriatic. W LOO V -i - .. ■ .... ;