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Show THE ROUTING OF THE TURKS. The almost, complete collapse of the Turkish military power is the great surprise of tho time. It had bceirsup-posed bceirsup-posed that the Turkish government could summon armies that would out-number out-number the troops of the Balkan states two to one. This, however, proves to have been a great mistake. It finds difficulty iu numbering up, mun for man, with the Balkan troops, and evcrywhero it is uniformly defeated, The weakness of the Turkish administration admin-istration and military power must have been known to the Balkan govern-inents govern-inents before thev began this war. So far as the general public is concerned, the Turks have succoeded in keeping their weakness a profound secret, as they were gonorally supposed to be able to bring forces to battlo something some-thing as thoy did in their most recent war with Russia, where they wore able to put up a, tremendous resistance against the advance of the big Russian armies. Now. however, the Turks seem to have difficulty in getting even 200.000 men iu line of battlu to oppose the Bulgarians. Their military collapse seems to bo complete, and the Bulgarians Bulga-rians announce thoir determination "to dictate terms of poaco in Constantinople. Constanti-nople. On the sea, what a change there is from the old days, when the Turks swopt tho Aegean Sea, and the eastern Mediterranean, and when they were a- menace even in the Adriatic. But as the historians tell us, "There was a man sent from Heaven whoso name was John," as approvingly quoted by Pope Pius V, aud this man John, otherwise other-wise known as Don John of Austria, won such a tremendous victory at; lo-panto lo-panto (October 7, 1.771,) that the Turk- ish naval power was completely crushod; and it has been ncgligiblo ever since. But a nation caught unprepared both 011 sea and on .laud, opposed by vigorous, vigor-ous, fighting neighbors who have a grievance and are ready to wreak vengeance on account of that grievance, griev-ance, arc at a terrible disadvantage. Tho Turks have an insufficient army, and practically no navy at all; they arc therefore so badly worsted in this campaign that thov arc liable to disappear dis-appear as a governing race from Europe. Eu-rope. Aud that is precisely what, ought to be. Their -misfortune and rout, however, may be fairly considered by every nation. as a warning not to be caught without, sufficient military power for national defense. The human hu-man race is pugnacious, and while the advantages of peace are manifest, there are to0 many fighting men in the world to allow of the advantages of war being entirely ignored. |