The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-13
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wEYLERIsM IN MACEDONIA.


There is something higher than international law
and amenty. and it will be wonder if the terrible
dispatches that coming out of Macedonia do not
invoke it At first the dispatches were OF the order
which challenged credulity, and easily disposed
of as exaggerations But there is authenticity
to the tidings which leaves doubt that the Turks
are brutal beyond all precedent in their humiliation
of the Macedonans.
The position of the Powers which exercise
paternity over Europe is that Turkey must vigorously
suppress the resurrection. The Macedonians con-
tend that this position encourages the Turks to
greater cruelty and insist the powers intervening
In the meanwhile the Bulgarian people are crying
out against their government because of its neutral
ity Their sympathies are with the Christian popula-
ton in the insurgent country.
AS we have seen in the case of Cuba it would be
impossible for such as the Turks are waging
to be carried on in this hemisphere The temper of
the American people would not endure it. The con-
troll of the monarchies of Europe is not quickly
ceptible to the impulses and emotions and demands
of the people But to suppose that the cabinets and
kings are callous entirely to public sentiment is
without warrant
When the powers took the position that Turkey
must subdue the rebellion with vigor, the position
did not carry with it the Endorsement of outrage,
rapine mutilaon and all forms of concentrated devil
try Turkey not keep it up. Either the insur-
rection must speedily subsde all Europe will
be forced by the indignation of the various peoples
Of the continent to take hand For no one coun-
try will be permitted to enter this important cor
ner of the world alone.
There is no place for weylerism in the world,
east or west hemisphere.
War between Turkey and Bulgaria, if the pres
ent disturbances in the Balkans lead to a declara-
ton of open hostilities would paper, at least be
a one-sided struggle. The little principally is
match so far as theoretical war strength goes, for
the big Ottoman Empire.
Turkey proper has a population of about 25,O00,-
005 and it can raise army of at least 100000 and
possibly million men, including it's field and
val forces. On the other hand, Bulgaria has popu
lation of about 100000 and its army foot
ing numbers about 100000 men Bulgaria has no
navy worth mentioning only few small steamers.
Therefore the lighting would be mostly on land II
the Turkish army should invade Bulgaria it would
find several strongly fortified towns Sofia shumla,
and Vidn, each of which is defended by a circle of
modern forts There is also fortress at Slistria,
and Varna, the coast of the Black Sea- is forti
fed town.
But if should occur in the Balkan peninsula
T. would be difficult tell where it would end. The
Bulgarian army would likely be recruited largely
from the other states in that part of Europe, whose
people have no reason to be friendly toward Turkey
On the other hand only 20 per cent of the people
in the Turkish Empire proper Mohammedans
and loyal TO the Porte. Engaged in with Bull
garia the Sultan might find enemies within his own
realm as well as across its borders