The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-15
The TURKISH INBROGLIO.
A DEEP GAME PLAYED BY FRANCE
IN THE LEYANT.

sultan Tries 20 overthrow French Pro-
tcctorate. Counting on the Assscia-
lions Law Trouble -Constans Cheek
mates Him Under Cover Of b Ler-
ando Claims Other Power Interfere.
ROME, Nov. si.-The course and the rapid
end OF the conflict between France and
Turkey interested deeply both banks Of
the TYber. The Quirinals interest was
in one of the critical points in general poll
tics: Would not the end OF Frances pro-
tectoratc be the beginning Of the end OF
her privileges in the world, the definite
break between the eldest daughter OF
the Church. and the Vatican. In the eyes
Of the Holy See the struggle for the pro-
tectorate is taking on dramatic proper
tions. With his high genius Leo XII.
has always preserved the contracts that
favored Frances protectorate over the
missions Without his effective protection
that privileged bastion Of the Gallo citadel
would have crumbled and its
and ruin would nave led to the decay OF
Frances external activity.
Neither China nor Turkey, neither the
Powers nor even Russia. will accept any
larger claims OF rights which an Internal
Kulturkompf opposed TO the preservation
OF the protectorate seems to give up and
TO turn into a mockery. In his marvellous
s~agacity the old and great Pontid saw In
the fortunate retention Of a fragment Of
glorious power the preservation OF the
bonds OF q reasonable friendship. selfish,
no doubt, yet serious and lasting, between
the Papacy and France. The protectorate
is the rock on which rest the ConoordAt,
the appropriations for public worship and
the embassy TO the Vatican; IL Is the per-
manent shelter under which the Papacy
and France preserve their influence and
their OF prestige. 1t Is to tear
away, TO break down these two pillars that
the European States are joining their efforts.
The conflict between France and Turkey
put the question In precise terms. After
the Associations law was passed Abdul
Hamid H.. a "logician" like Me~phistopheles
and as ready to make deductions az Aristo-
tie, fastened to draw the Oriental con-
illusions from the French premises. The
Republic persecutes the monks, l persecute
them; the Republic demands that they
seek authorization why should not demand
the same? The Republic strikes at the
Congregations and the missions; ! shall
therefore make an end OF this protectorate
which is now nothing but a fiction and n
lie" Hence. as you know, arose the erudlte
and slowly evolved intrigue Of which the
sending Of the fleet to Mitylene is the pro-
,~isional solution; | say provisional. for
unless the internal policy Of France IL
brought into accord with her external
policy the struggle must begin again and
will be, presumably, the grave OF the
Republic incompatible privilege.
The refusal Of the berot TO the Patriarch
of the United Chaldeans. the attack on the
university at BeyIut and on the Jesuits,
the tax on religious property, the closing
Of schools, chapels, hospitals, DC. were
all inks in the attack proceeding at once
from Rome. Berlin. Vienna. London and
Constan,inople by which the old institution
was 10 be broken. In order TO win over
the Pope's favors the shrewd and willy
Caliph offered the Vatican the promise OF
two onbnssies, one to the "oly See. the other
TO the court on the Bospsorus.\
In tho presence Of this mobilization ii.
Constants became frightened. He felt
directly, on the spot, the quick and effective
reaction Of the Associations Law on the
religious situation in the Levant. The
Ambassador. who lie extremely tricky and
slippery as a political eel. grated the
political question upon the Lorando mat
ter. On receiving the Sultan's refusal
l0t nfDuDllC hfrGo'NhVA
lard's squadron to Mitylene. In a twen-
~ty-six-page note It demanded twelve con-
cessions, among them the final renun-
citation to Tunis and to Algeria. the cessior
OF Cheickh, opposite Perrin; the frman fol
the Patriarch Emmanuel Thomas; the In
~dependenoe OF the missions. unlimited,
unconditional power over ths schools.
chapels. hospitals. In the list OF schools,
900 in all, are the establishments in Armenis
which Russia constantly regards with
anger and uDeasiness.
The Holy See watched with pleasure thu
instructive performance. After beini
deeply smitten by the falling away OF th'
Republic, the influence 81 Catholicism
was grow az onos more In the Lvant
The Oriental estecms only force and mag
inference Suddenly the conflict comes q
al end, the Republic withdrsws its squadron
ths = ltan promises vaguely, which means
almost not at all Whence comes thi'
lamsntAbl end which leaves all the q1ss
lions 0p~n and therefore threatening
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