The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-19
CRISIS is OVERDUE.

The New York Evening Post which has made careful
study of the Macedonian trouble declares that
the other revolution will be settled
The powers Europe have given the Sultan hand
with all that that implies His policy is to do the work
of prescription so swiftly that the neghboring states will
have neither time courage interfere The plan Of
the Macedonian revolutonsts is contrariwse merely
proong the struggle until help comes outside Bull
gara appears to be the verge of decision Should
she bravey decide to the open ally the revolu
ton she has covery brought about set of problems
would arise The powers would try to isolate the
they did unsuccessfuy with the Balkan Confederation
in 1876 successfully with the ingorous Greek of
1897 Should they again succeed in boxing up in
the Levant the Near Eastern question merely
postponed not settled. Settled it be until the
Ottoman garrison is finally expelled from Europe
Bulgaria added another to many protests against
Turkish atrocities in Macedonia this the appeal
the powers is accompanied by the intimation if
they viii not Bulgaria will the rescue OF the
population across her borders. few days will
tell how serious that promise OF intervention is;
while is usies technically least the desperate
paign which the komsjis of Macedonia have been wag
ing for six past the object of that hopeless
warfare against the Turks has been immediate vic
tory; Boris Saraof his well that their
mountains But these partisan leaders hope meanwhile
provoke the Turkish soldery such inhuan
that Christian Europe would for very indignation inter
And there are, indeed, indications that the COM
paratvey Balkan states may undertake an
prise before which the great powers quail.
Only upon this theory of a campaign Of provocaton
the events of the past few weeks applicable For
the insurgents have been the losers departing from
their guerrilla tactics fighting companies or bat
taions But this policy though it the lives Of
thousands revolutionaries the Monastir dis
tTict acne. has apparently effected its purpose
brought an army Of Turks into the center of revolt and
has subjected that region to horrible a campaign Of
reprsals, that Bulgaria at least ready fight
against overwhelming odds the chance of putting
stop 10 the dreadful business Meanwhile the Mosems
have been still further rritated by alarming but nef
fectual attempts blow up railroads public build
ings with dynamite Shocking the policy Of provoca-
ton deliberately adopted by the Macedonian committee
may the situation calls for desperate unusual
expedients Under Turkish rule there is no hope of peace
or safety. Successive programs Of reforms soemnly
drawn by the European have been dsregarded
from the moment Of publication. No native Christian
OF the peasant class is able say that tomorrow his
goods, his cattle his children his wife viii surely be
his Bulgarian emissaries tell him that across the
border IN the states from the Porte life and
property are safe, and good woman's honor. the
desire for these elementary rights and the despair Of get
ting them from the Turkish tyrans that makes revolu
ZIONIST out Of the shepherd poughman For years past
the committees supported from Bulgaria have supplied
fchoomasters missionaries and rifles And these
agencies have been almost equally encacous in build
Ing up new Bulgaria Of many races and in creating
small but brave force composed of handfrls Of
men who between the winter season ard that work in
the fields harass the Turkish garrsons the
Greek minority and al the enemies Bulgarian idea
But the present revolt differs in important respects
from these perennial disorders In the first days OF last