Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-15

 rope from the West For fully two centuries Turkish power has been on the wane. Egypt, still tributary to Turkey, is occupied and rulcd hy Great Britain. In Europe contraction has been continuous. What Greece, Servia and others owed to accident and the good will of the powers of Europe, Bulgaria now feels itself able Ia achieve unaided. Though based on d population only onc-siNth as large, Bulgaria's fighting efficiency, for immediate purposes, compares ,fayorab1y with Turkey's s. The coun- try which has Prince Ferdinand of Coburg as it's ruler can place 21o,o0o men in the field within ten days and can re-enforce them with 230 900 men of first and second reserves. Turkeys army, while numerically su- perior, is scattered over an immense territory in Europe and Asia and would need six weeks for even par tial mobilization. Bulgarians think they could win decisive advantages, 1 perhaps even capturing Constanti- nople, before Turkey could bring it's
 strength effectively to bear. More over, while the Turkish soldier is as splendid q fighter as ever a model of courage and temperate habits, the corruption radiating from the Con- stantinople government has greatly impaired the army's efficiency. The mon often lack pay and proper care otherwise and fraud i'll the matter of military equipment is frequent These practices, of course. exert demoral- izing influence It was open diSaf- lection in his army which finally fore ed the Sultan to grant d constitution. Just now. too, with the partial chaos attending the inauguration of a new regime making itself felt discipline is necessarily relaxed. Turkey could not Hatten out Bulgaria in short order as it flattened out Greece eleven years ago Bulgaria will doubtless be per mitted to go in peace, and Crete, as well as the provinces formally an- nexed by Austria-Hungary, will 30 likewise. It is perfectly clear that whatever a majority of the powers might desire Austria-Hungary, back ed by Germany, cannot be made to reract it's action. In fact, the pow CTS, after many powwows. will proba- bly, find themselves confronted by l history already made and will do nothing more than accept the situa- ton.
 Facing many troubles both external and internal, Turkey is in no eonai- ton to resist strongly supported de mands. With such demands once started. and now joined by demands which would not have ventured to present themselves singly, the gov ernment can only make tha best ot q thoroughly bad situation. THrkey l is passing through an hour of great weakness If the empire emerges with institutions ljberalized ana with ether sources of new life and strength not now enjoyed, thc result will be well we4th all i may cost The one really deplorable outcome would he the discredit and overthrow of the ra2ime, under which these things are happening, just as the Russo-Turllish war enabled the present sultan to set aside con stitation sranted ny him in 1S76; and such an outcome. happily. is eN- tremely improbable Il is not true that revolutions never go backwards but the Turkish revolution of 1908, whatever the nationally humiliating circumstances attending it's birth. has -hus far promised well.
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 Ky this time MT. Arehbold has sure y gotten as much of his correspond