New-York tribune., 1900-05-06

takes advantage thereof. Time and again he
has defied the foreign Powers realizing that
neither singly collectively could they afford
10 proceed to eXtremities Thus he has only
paid two or three small instalments of the
indemnity which the Congress of Berlin in 1873
directed him to pay to Russia. and all the eff
forts on the part of the Muscovite Government
to collect the balance have proved fruitIess
The Sultan was likewise ordered by the Treaty
of Berlin which gave him a guarantee of the
great Powers for the integrity of his dominions
to begin series of wide reaching and enIight-
ened reforms in Armenia and the Christian
provinces of Turkey in Europe. Yet he has not
until now made the slightest attempt to put
these reforms into execution although he had
solemnly pledged himself to fulfil the engage
Hthts eXacted from him by the Berlin Congress
engagements of which he is relieved by the
Koran which teaches that promises to unbe-
levers need not be kept
Al the time of the war between Greece and
Turkey the great Powers We're SO alarmed lest
the Sultan should be defeated and his throne up
SET that both Germany and Russia went 10 the
length OF giving their support to the Padishah,
although the reigning family Of Greece are
closely related by ties of blood intimate friend
ship and personal sympathy with both the Car
and the Kaiser. Indeed. violating all tradi-
tons OF the past two of the greatest Christian
nations IN Europe virtually aided a Mahometan
Power 10 vanquish small Christian nation
AGAIN when the Sultan, with the object of pro-
pltiatlhS the fanatic element of his Mahometan
SUBJECTS, permitted them to institute wholesale
iiiasSacres ol native and even foreign Christians
not merely in remote provinces but even in the
streets OF ConstantnOple. the Ottoman troops
and police made no attempt to prevent the
bloOdShed and the great Powers contented
themselves with mere remonstrances, which
We're politely received and relegated TO oblivion
THE SULTAN THINKS HE is SAFE
The Sultan has, in fact seen that he can go to
almost any length without peril of reprisals or
anything beyond mere remonstrances and din
lcmatic demands the part of the foreisr
Powers, owing to their individual ieaIousies of
one another and to their collective dread of a
break up of the Turkish Empire He likewise
knows that the principal danger by which he
is threatened is that of a revolutionary move
ment on the part of his own subjects especially
the bigoted and fanatic element thereof 1t is
deaVor by every means in his power to pro-
pltlate the latter by showing himself averse TO
all concessions to Christian Powers both in The
matter of cOnsiderate treatment of his Rayah |
or CHRISTIAN subjects, and in the grant of favors
10 christian missionaries. Each manifestation
OF III VIII toward native or foreign Christians /
that he gives to his people increases his pres /
use ana consequently the sodity of his throne |
both at home and abroad throughout the entire
world, which extends from the At
lantlc shores of Morocco to the Pacific coast of
the Philippines and of China. That is why he 4
cannot afford to grant the demands of the
United States in connection with the damage
done to missionary property except by means
of a compromise. President Mckinley knows
this. and that is the true reason of his forbear-
ance toward Abdul Hamed EX-ATTACHE