New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-18
TIE OTTOMAN CRISIS
SIGNS OF IMPENDING REVOLUTION IN ALL
PARTS OF THE EMPIRE.

DISTURBANCES EVERYWHERE. FROM scUTARh 10
BUssoRA cONsTANTINoPLE ITSELF THE
STORM cENTRE-"YouNG TURKEY"-EXAM-
Piles OF REPRESSION AND CORRUPTION
THE CONSTITUTION or 1871
The Turkish Empire is rapidly falling into chaos'
OF that there be question. Nor can me
cause OF 1t be doubted. II is internal corrupuo"'
and nothing else There is old Turkish saying
that Fish stinks at the head which may we. De
applied TO the present case The origin OF the tTou-
bic in Constantinope. The Imperial Govern
men, was the first to become unsound. Inehce "'
progress OF decay rapid to all other po'uo"s
OF the Empire. To-day the whole Government
from the summit OF the Sublime Porte to the low
est mudsili Of petty provincial oficiadom. Is rot
ten. The FISH stinks from head TO tail ~ lhe
time the natural result OF persistent mis-
government appears in discomfort disturbances ana
more or less open sediton. all OF when are d.
widespread their
The present acute stage OF the trouble began III
Armenia year or two ago the lawless Kurds tax
ing advantage OF the Governments weakness anu
harrying. pundering and Strengthening their chris
tan neighbors at will and even the Imperial OH
Gals and soldery joining them IN their Ho' ~
work But 1t not confined TO Armenia IL
spread down the Tigris. toward the Persian Gun.
Aeppo and the Lebanon caught the contagion. ana
The spirit OF disorder spread into AnatoIa. until
Angora We'd with Darbekir in horrors. Mean
time the European portion Of the Empire was III
creasingly restless. Macedonia had long been IN
ferment The land OF ISLANDER Beg resumed its
ancient quarrel with the successor Of Amuraia.
Crete Joined the fray With another attempt for free
dom. And the present outlook Is one Of outrage
instruction from the mouth OF the Eupnraies
and the slopes Of Ararat 10 the shore of the
Adriatic.
REVOLUTIONARY CONsPIRACIEs
The storm centre is to be found in CONSTANT
nope Itself. There the mallgn influences o.
corruption ard oppression which produced these
effects throughout the empire. There nave oc-
CURED some OF the savage onslaughts OF
Moslem fanatics. melted by the Government itsef'
upon the Christians There. too. IS the seat o. the
most formidable conspiracy against the ruling
dynasty: conspiracy which. in spite o. fierce re-
preston. is waxing daily in extent and power,
until to-day it is causing the Porte more anxiety
than all other troubles put together
The Young Turkey" party is much heard o. in
these times. II rs scarcely much definite party
as a Cave OF Adullam. into which gathered all
the elements of disaffectOn and revolt II Includes
the Sofas or fana,ical young Mosiem students. who
have been foremost In massa ring the Armen.aas
in Constantinope. and it includes also many Az
nenans who are most loyal 10 their Own people
and cause Most Of the students AZ :he colleges
are to be numbered in it. with many doctors. law
yers and merchants. ard not a few army and
navy officers and civil attaches Of the sublime
Porte.
Back o. all these millions of the people II
the empire There are for example. all the Arabs.
They are not Young Turkey" hut they are in
the Cave Their grlevance IS religious one. They
hold that no one hut ARAB Is worthy 90 be-
the Caliph OF Islam. Therefore tho regard the
present Sultan. who Is not of Arab blood. as
usurper and impostor Their feeling o. enmity
toward him has been intensified by mis- action ~
causing they say. certain religious books to he
garbled and muiilated. He has. they say. arbi-
trarily caused TO be stricken ont all passages
declaring that the Caliph must he an Arab This
they regard little else than =acrege. There are
those too. who deny his right fo reign on purely
political grounds His elder brother is still living.
and IS ther say the rghtful sultan third
party denounces him for having .aled 10 keep his
promises and especially Tor having violated and
abrogatea the great Trade Of 1871 by which a con-
stitution and parliamentary government were
granted 70 the empire. \ fourth says he is III
true 10 Islam because he is tolerant toward Chris
tians and fifth rails ag.nst him for his alleged
bigotrv and lack Of nberaiiiy Ia matters Of race
and creed.
The Young Turkey" party is therefore. the centre
Of heterogeneous combination OF factions. with
nothing in common but opposition 20 the sultan and
10 the present order OF government. II has no
general leader or leaders either and little unity NJ
action. Yet it has established veritabe reign NJ
terror at the Yndz Kiosk and in the Offices Of the
Porte One day all the dead walls in Constauu-
nople the mosques and even the gates Of the Inn
periai Palace We're covered with pacards declaring
the Sultan 10 not the true Clllph. bat usurper.
and demanding that he be dethronei Seditious
tracts have been distributed In the PancalIi MAi-
tary College. The Minister OF Marina precious
rascal by-the-way-found a notice posted on his
house telling him that il he did not resign he would
he assas.nated Indeed similar letters have found
their way into the Yildz Kiosk Itself. The Sultan
is said 10 have become so panicstricken that he has
new guards every day and does not sleep in the
same room two nights I'm succession
Now and then men are arrested FOR these things.
Fourteen inmates OF the Palace We're taken one day
and put u death within an hour. hundred Sofas
were taken in one night Seventeen army officers
and nine military cadets were also arrested. Most
of them were tortured and put io death. But the
symptoms Of sediton not checked. but rather
Increased. And 50 It goes on. day after day They
saw the Sultan. when goes 20 the Mosque or
Fridays seems almost prostratel with terror more
Ike a condemned man on the way 10 execution than
the proud Commander OF the Faithful
THE SULTAN
O,,ulons Of Abdul Hamd himself vary widely.
Mr. Gladstone has been denouncing him with IN
spar!ng bitterness. and has thus sounded tho key
note Of much British criticism That such extreme
views will commend themselves 10 he sober juds-
ment Of the world is however exceedingly doubtful.
The Sultan il a gentleman Of refinement and cult
ure His private life is marked with simplicity and
amiability OF demeanor. lie has displayed no trace
OF the savagery and grOssness that characterized
some Of his predecessors. On the contrary, DO has
shown from the time Of his accession. generous
ambition for the good Of mis- people and the adj
vfncement Of his Empire in ways Of civilization
such Is the testimony OF those who know him best
and have most closely observed the current OF
events at the Yidiz Kiosk. II il be asked now this
view Of the Sultan Is 10 be reconced with the un-
doubted evils OF the Government OF which be- H. the
crowned head the answer Is easy and ready. He is
the victim Of d - stem which has grown upon the
Emrire through many generations. which has been
rnaiciousiy fostered by the OUTSIDE Powers whicn
now denounce u most bitterly. AID which has njw
become too strong for any one man 10 Withstand