Show MI Kanu city Star The most mot significant thing about the aggressive lv attitude of France toward Turkey lurkey 1 is III the th fact that nil all the tho powers have he acquiesced CC Not n a word of pro protest protest test has hns como conto from Hussla or it Great Britain For once the tue Sultan ban been be n left to his own resources In facing the fleet of ot n a hostile power The mischievous doctrine of the sacred character r of ot the Ottoman empire Is gradually breaking down Cleveland l No ow tv that thai Franco had lills irn led the way wa It II hI not nut unlikely unlike that Other Mh r governments will use UKO u o the samo sante means of getting getling their heir bills paid The Tha IK Itt one ono of or thu most exasperating of debtors He owes OCH OCHIn In nil aft directions and will not pay n a i piastre to anybody It If he ho eon can get set out of It Warships may mav mn now bo be expected to tu tomake make regular collecting coll visits to tho the Sultans front or back door and re ro refuse fuse to go KO away until the money Is handed over When the bottom of the cash cLish drawer has hns been scraped clean the th collector may insIst on taking land In lieu of or tho deficient t cash Then may come como the tho long trouble San Francisco Chronicle Nothing could bo be more puerile and contemptible than tho the Sultans pre pro pretense pret tense t of maintaining a n government One On would suppose e that tha the tho ordinary Instincts of ot common manhood would lead ledd le d him to promptly anti and peaceably for or the payment of or a Ii debt evidently honestly due and which he ho knew would la to collected by force If necessary A government which silent silently ly submits to such humiliation as all France Is now non Inflicting upon u on Turkey cannot apparently endure much long longer longCr l er rr even oen with the connivance of ot Euro European peon penn nations which dread any disturb disturbance disturbance ance once of the balance of or power New York Mall Mail higher In Ih te tk world worM today than titan It l did till yesterday and add the ministry In Is I stronger lr ll Nr thou than It was las aS at homo home For these theBO desirable de but unpremeditated re to results suite the Sultan may thank his hIli own dilatoriness lI It gave the a chance to make nn an vigor vigorous OUR ous t ration n of ot it its ts determination lIon tion with nil all Hi the world worM standing by anti to gratify gr lt Its historic pride by b a n spirited lIn In the thc near n East t of the when the Third Napo Nap leon Icon with lIh his Ifill controversy y over the Holy Ila 1101 s 11 won teas n the person verson on of tilt till Europe When payment Is lit II de tie delayed until the It creditor cr brings his case ct e Into Inlo court the tho debtor has hns certain costs COts to t taro facu ace In addition to lo tho the liquidation of ot I the original In the Sultans Sultan ease caw rt these the o are at what amounts to tu n a re rc reaffirmation 1 of ot tho the republics right to protect Roman Catholic Inter litter Interests ests t ts In iii Turkey a right dIsputed FO o far a till as norms n tell were con ton concerned concerned by Al Mlois great sr ot end and good goodfriend friend rl nd nt at t Berlin Icoria I Journal J ou I The Tue Sultan of ot Turkey has hM concluded to pity pay up UI and look an nit n pleasant as 18 he be eon can The Tue general belief bellet was that he would do this It Is a matter for con how hol far fr France would have havo gone had the Sultan tint not reached this thU conclusIon 10 there watt was more bluff titan than anything sire In tho the Trench French rr Hut But lJ t nt tit t any rats rate It If It IL was a bluff blurt It and that Is In Just Justas Justn as n good good a as II though France had nn an In invIncible hand The Sultan of ot Turkey must mufti by this time have tAve e reached the thelon conclusion lon lu lon that he mode made a 1 serious t bk take ke when whoa h lie held off orr for M so long Ion on the tM American claims that n it 1 I Ion wits was W threatened by this coun Coon country try Ir Th American way 1 of or collecting coll bad debts has Mil now Ow become lecome b rome the proper property ty tt I of or tho th world orld and other countries be aides France may to employ cm l y the thur name sams means that were Tero first success successful ful tul in the ease coss Rt of or this country |