New-York tribune., 1902-10-18
MAcEDONIAN ATROCLTIES.

The Bulgarian campaign in Macedonia pro-
ceeds according to schedule. The latest step Is
the raising of a cry about alleged atrocities com
mitted by Turks upon Christians. 1t is init
mated that the horrors Of 1879 i'll Bulgaria are
being renewed in Macedonia, and an appeal is
made to the powers 10 intervene and stop them.
So serious is the situation. we are gravely in
formed, that the two branches of the Mace
donan Committee have sunk their differences
and united in calling great mass meeting for
Sunday next 10 send urgent appeals TO the gov
ernments of the great powers. 1t would all he
very dreadful II il did not plainly bear the
earmarks of cut and dried Encouragement.
Atrocities announced in advance and insur-
rectionS made according to time table do not
greatly move mems sympathes. The spectacle
Of two highwaymeD who had quarreled over
the division Of loot, lamenting together over
the robbery of honest folk in the next village
excites the rsible rather than the lachrymal
faculties. 1t may be that the Turks are doing
evil in Macedonia But the world will discreet.
ly wait for information from other points than
Sofia and through other channels than the
brigandish Macedonian Committee.
An attempt shrewd or ingenious has been
made 10 rehabilitate the Macedonian Commit
tee in the eyes of the American people It
has had a fair hearing, but it must be said
that it has proved hopelesSly Intellectual There
few well Informed people who have the
slightest doubt that the Macedonian Committee
was responsible for rhe abduction Of Miss Stone
and the eXtortiOn of blackmail for her release
for the murder of Professor Mchaelano and for
the systematic preparation of numerous other
like crimes, and that in doing so Il for a long
time enjoyed the liberation, II not the actual
approval, Of the Bulgarian Government 1t will
he recalled that on December 2 last Mikaelov-
skv. the then president Of the Macedonian Com
mittee and the successor Of Sarafoff in that
office made a speech at Varna, in which he
said that if he were permitted 10 say aloud
what ne knew OF the murder Of Mchaelano and
the abduction OF Miss Stone those deeds would
appear as black stains upon the record OF the
committee. This speech was published at
Sofa, and created great sensation. Mikael
ovsky was bitterly denounced by the more radi
cal members of the committee for speaking
out in meeting" hut the truth of HIS remarks
has never been controveTed
There is no doubt that Macedonia is i'll gov
erned, as much so as Bulgaria, and that il IS
so largely because of religious anmOsities
Mahometans do sometimes oppress Christians
just Christians In Crete few years back
oppressed and harried Mahometans and as
Christians in Russia and Rumania now perSe-
cute Jews. There is as yet. however. no trust
worthy evidence that the Turks are doing I'm
Macedonia anything more than trying to check
and suppress a revolt which has been artdclally
organized for political purposes by a tunta of
Bulgarian brigands. and which is being con-
Quoted by the latter with a savagery and
wickedness worthy Of the Bashi- Bazouks OF a
generation ago If any wqnton atrocities are
being committed by the Turks, the world will
hear Of them promptly and will put a stop
10 them. But it will hear Of them from other
and more credible sources than the murderers
of Professor Mchaelano and the ahductors of
Miss Stone