St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-20
1t Is Attacking Several Of the
Old Countries at One and
the Same Time,
Causing a State Of Eruption
of No Small or Insignifi-
cant Degree.
Greeks and Servians Side
Together to Down the
Turks.
O'Brien Explains the Relation
Of a Papal Reseript to
the Church.
Convrieht Cable to the Globe.

has lately assumed an acute form at
more than one point. In Roumania the
rising among the peasants-due, some
say-tO the efforts of Russian emissaries,
while others aScribe it to agrarian
causes and the multiplication of Off
cials-cOntinues to give the government
serious trouble. The peculiar disease
of what may be called ''official doom"
is attacking several countries at once.
1t threatens to break down the republic
of France, and at the same time APP
pears in Roumania. To win support
and cOnciliate opponents by stopping
the mouths of the hungry with ''peace"
Is simple way of governing, but it has
two great faults. The creation and
multiplication of posts which it involves
ends by imposing an intOlerable fnan-
cial burden upon the country. The
Roumanian position is that the
country is OvertaXed, and the
peasants restless and dissatisfied,
while possible leaders in any serious
movement against the existing state Of
things are supplied by the large class
of semi-educated persons who have
been disappointed in the hunt for Off
cial posts, who are bitterly disconnected
ana have enough ability to make them
dangerous. Whether the Russian ennis
Sary in Roumana be a reality or a myth,
at all events, it is clear that the special
circumstances of Roumania give him an
OPPORTUNITY FOR MISCHIEF
which he would not otherwise have. In
other quarters there is no need of
special circumstances. Macedonia has
been i'll an eruptive state most of the
time within the last ten years, and it is
very easy to credit the statement that
serious troubles have broken out
there. Greeks and Servians are
reported as siding together against
the Turks. The mortal jealousy
and antipathy which both races cherish
towards the Bulgarians render this
probable enough. Both the Greeks and
the ServianS have claims on Macedonia,
and their respective spheres of interest
can be distinguished without difficulty.
Far otherwise is the case Of the Bull
garianS, who want the lions share, and
TO make it up are perfectly ready to
take from SerYian and Greek alike. The
Turkish administration is so incompe-
tent and-remOte places so tyrannical
that temporary coalition of Greeks and
Servians against it, is quite natural
But, for all that, neither Greeks nor
ServianS regard Turkey as their worst
IIdJ pOSlGlOl Is IeStINGu IOT
the BulgarianS, and the real trouble in
Macedonia will only come when the
BulgarianS take it into their heads to
assert
THEIR CLAIMS BY FORCE.
The three rival races are so ineXtrica-
bly, inteTtWined in Macedonia that
when once serious hostilities break out
there is no knowing where they will
stop. As if all this were not enough,
OminOuS news comes from the island
of Crete. which shares with Macedonia
the doubtful privilege of being the most
volcanic spot in the dominions of the
sultan of Turkey. OF course, neither
Crete nor Macedonia nor Roumania, nor
even the revolt in SerVia, would excite
the anxiety of Europe if there were not
something behind. 1t is the possibility
that any disturbance i'll Southeastern
Europe may bring Russia into the fray
which makes MOnastir, Gambia and
Popesti interesting even to the worst
geographers among European poll
ticians. The impossibility of concili-
recognized in the highest quarters in
Germany. The positions of power and
distinction which the car recently be-
slowed on Tchernaieff, Ignatieff and
BogdanOvitch have enabled them to
work for the realization of their ideas
more effectively than heretofore. They
are all frantically "Constantinopoltan'
and anti-German. Bogdanovitch is an
AnglophObe. The last Turkish Russian
war showed that the car is
NOT ALWAYS oNINIPOTENT
In Russia. On that occasion the Pan
SlayiStS were too strong for Alexander
H., and Prince BiSmarck'S organs now
loudly declare that the same phenom-
enOn is about to recur under Alexander
III. Leading English Liberal states
men have always believed that despite
Prince Bismarcks assumptions of in
difference, the conquest of Bulgaria
by Russia, carrying, as it would, with it
the possession of COnStinOple, could not
be effected without bringing both Aus
tria and Germany into the field. They
Tear that Lord Salisbury has been mis-
led by Prince BiSmarck'S excessive
cOmplaiSance toward Russia, and the
German chancellor's declaration that
other powers have much more urgent
interest IN the defense of Bulgaria, and
that Lord Salisbury may be induced to
prevent the landing of Russian troops
III Bulgaria, while Germany would keep
quietly i'll the background and leave
Bulgaria, Turkey and England to do the
work. England worked for Austria and
Germany in 1854, but it is feared that if
she IS induced to take the same step
now the results will be far different
from that memorable occasion.
TIE PAPAL REsCRIPr.
Mr.. William O'Brien, NJ. T., in an in
terview to-day regarding the papal re-
script and the resolutions adopted at the
meeting of the Catholic Parnellite men,
bers of parliament on Thursday, said:
$40 any person fully informed as to the
history and organization of the Roman
fnrl oil p1,r - D1,I. -
terS purely secular, the excitement pro-
duced by the publication of the rescript
is somewhat amusing. Liberal and Tory
writer's seem to take it for granted that
Ireland is ruled from the Vatican. The
Congregation of the Holy Office, to which
the reports Of Mgr. Persico on the
condition of Ireland were referred by
Pope Leo Kill, is one of the many
committees of the college of cardinals,
and is also one of the least authoritative
In the olden days the holy
Office was synonymous with the in
QUESTION, and even now its functions
are purely inQuisitorial, not judicial. To
the Holy Office the pOntitf usually refers
any appeals made to him for decision or
advice in purely secular affairs. For in
stance, in some Catholic countries-aS
in Belgium-where an anti-clerical
party exists. some law, anti-CathOlic in
spirit, may be proposed by the pOliti-
clans and submitted to the people for
decision at a general election. If the
bishops are in doubt about the attitude
their iiocks should assume on the ques-
ton, they state their reasons for their
doubts, and are also supposed to state
the other side of the question impair
TALLY, sending their statement to Rome
The Holy Office considers it, and the
pope prOmulgates the opinion arrived at,
not eX-cathedra, but as an authoritative
suggestion. His holiness approves or
condemns any suggested measure, but