New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-03

Diplomats NJ Constantinople are said 20 think
The Sublime Porte is in panic and the Mace
DOMAIN outbreaks are not serious certainly not
serious enough 10 warrant or 10 neccSstata any
such military preparations as the Turkish Gov
erument Is now making. They may he right.
IL is 10 be hoped they are. But judiciOus OBJ
servers at a distance viii probably think the
Sultan and his advisers. who are among the
shrewdest and most circumspect OF men. know
as much about the state Of the empire as does
the foreign colony at Pera and perhaps a good
deal more. In the chronic state OF depletion
which the Turkish treasury suffers the Porte
Is not likely TO incur extraordinary expenses in
mobilZing reserves unless there Is pretty urgent
need for T.
Nearly all circumstances make the situation
appear ominous. The recent action OF the Bull
garian Government against the Macedonian
Committee did not necessarily mean the sun
preston OF that organization and the abandon
ment OF It's revolutionary propaganda ON the
contrary. 1t may well have precipitated the
crisis by melting the committee 10 open insur-
rection instead of furtive brigandage II will
be recalled that the two leaders OF the commit
tee, Zontcheff and NicolOff. who were arrested
and locked up few weeks ago. have broken
jail and made their escape. Such men nj the
head OF the thousands OF armed Insurgents who
are said 20 be in the field, are capable of max
Ing incalculable trouble in that lumber room
OF Europe where. has long been racog-
nized, a spark might be sufficient 70 start n
general cOntagratiOn. Ii Is to be noted 100
that Albania is also the scene of unrest and
outright revolt, There NAV be no connection
between the two. There is no love or sym
pathy between Arnauts and Bulgars. Rut (, is
evident that simultaneous outbreaks In botb
countries will make the case dOubly difficult IN
deal with We may add that the situation is
stlll further complicated by the relations exist
ING among the signatOry powers OF the Berlin
treaty Never before In all these twentv-four
years has there been 50 little unity Of poIicy
among the n concerning Balkan affairs. or so lit
Tie possibility or the exercise Of concerted infiu
ence for the preservation Of the peace.
GENERALLY speaking. no doubt. the sympathies
OF the civilized world would he with the Mace
DOMAINS In revolt against Turkish miscovern-
ment. The MacedOnians are nominallv Chris
tians' and the Turks are Mahometans. and the
majority Of the civilized world heinz, Christian
naturally sides with the former against tba lat
ter But the Macedonian cause has In the last
few years been seriously compromised nv the
Macedonian Committee OF that there can Ia
no question; and the present Instruction has
been organized and is being conducted bv that
committee II is not a spontaneous unrlsinr Of
the Macedonian people against intolerable on
preston. Rather is il desperate politiraI
move by Bulgarian professional bIackmailers
and mrrderers for ends of selfish aggrandze-
ment- The leaders OF the insurrection are those
who murdered a Rumanian professor and kid
mapped an American missionary. The notorious
sarafon. II will be recalled. recently said that