New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-01
in,eresting struggle is expected. The employers


the support of the London Trades Council But
tho Silvertoyn cmployers are made of sterner
stuff than most men. and they carry on work
by imporfinc both worlxmen and food TO feed
them and bar out all intruders. They have an
nounced that they mean to fight 10 the bitter end
MANY of Messrs Silvers' men have already gone
back. and as many more new ones have been
engaged in London The tailors are stirring, Car
dinal Manning's name again figuring at the meet
ing of the committee. They mean TO
be gin their campaign forthwith against
sweating. The Dublin master bakers and
operatives had the good sense to arbitrate. ond
the arbtrators have granted the operatives
increase of four shilings week all round. They
had asked for SIX The London plasterers are
meeting talking and complaining, with the formid-
able help of Mr.. John Burns, who breaches
combinasion as the sole means of getting good
wages But Mr.. Burns sobered by success and
responsibility, no longer urges general labor
strike all over London. Long as this catalogue
is. il might be made longer. The instances
enough 10 show once more how general is that stir
and ferment Of labor at which Mr.. John Morley
and Others look on with satisfaction.
The Nottingham conferences, at which Lord
Salisbury spoke, were Of interest from their
numbers and enthusiasm. On Tuesday evening
the meeting was not less than twelve thousand
strong. the Duke of Portland presiding, and the
aristocracy attending from all the adjacent
counties and the Glasses and the Masses joining
hands. They were of still more interest from
Lord Salisburys outspolen frankness on various
burning questions. He discoursed iauntily upon
the philosophy Of loopholes, as ILLUSTRATED by his
great opponent But Lord Salisbury himself
does not mind saying what he thinks, what his
IL ,snoth ha ic 10 nlp1O
self and his party to attempt The only new point
about Ireland is Land Purchase, which is 70
be voluntary, not compulsory But he warns the
Gladstonians that if the Unioniste are beaten
at the next election, they will maintain the hight
for the Union. The Lords will reject any Dill
| for dividing the Empire. He SCOTS at the notion
of abolishing the House Of Lords Then he plunges
into the social questions mentioned above, ana
sundry others, in a brilliant series OF Short plthy
and thoughtful speeches
Mr.. Gladstone is again busy with arithmetical
gymnastics, choosing The Nineteenth Century
for December as the arena for these interesting
performances. They delight his admirers. Dut
they do not absolutely cOnfound his enemies.
His adroit manipulation of fgures-nothng Is
more adroit than his Electoral Facts OF 10
day" conducts him by easy steps into the region
of prophecy From the dizzy altitude of his
mathematical trapeze he beholds clearly and pro
claims loudly the certain triumph of Home Rule
at the next general election with majority III the
House of Commons of so or / g. according as you
adjust the figures diversity the calculations.
But if you believe one Tory organ. MIR. Gadstone's
wish is father to his political equations,
and his fancies have got the better of of the
most elementary principles of arithmetic lie
counts his gains twice over, and his figures are
iuo xvhjl a
the article as consisting exclusively of assertions
and assumptions 1t is astonishing enough, OBJ
serves The Times" that even Mr. Gladstones
ingenuity should be able to find in the simple fact
that his party have gaIred eleven seats during
three years material to fill eleven pages In
monthly review. Perhaps 1T is. But he and his
article also fill more than eleven columns of ed
itorias in yesterday mornings papers. They do
not accept his facts or figures. His one organ
is the one exception But they have TO discuss
him
Much the most interesting sentence in Mr.
Gladstones rather bewildering paper is his veiled
menace to the House of Lords There is he
SAYS. already in view force enough and to spare
to carry the next House of Commons But the
longer il is allowed to continue its growth, the
more able it will be to deal also with the House
of Lords. or the more likely it will be, let us
rather hope. to beget within that House itself the
sagacious temper which eSchews n hopeless and
disastrous conflict" SO perhaps there will be a
blast from the Gladstonian trumpet against the
House of Lords at Manchester next week. The
National Liberal Federation holds great meeting
there. and Mr. Gladstone either will or will not
explain what Home Rule now means.
The School Board scandals continue, and the
inquiry enlarges rather than dmlnlsheS their
scope The Board has now discussed the subject
of insecure and unsanitary schoolhouses through
two weekly meetings. The chairman of the
Works Committee declared that probably two
thirds of all the buildings erected by the Board
are bad, both the materials used and the work
manship being inferior 1t is not denied that
many children have been poisoned some have
died. and many more are still in danger, both
from sewer gas and from rcllety walls. The
builders deny some Of these statements; but the
truth will come out presently in court, for the
Board has sued some of the builders for damages,
and some Of the builders have sued the Board for
libel Meantime the amount admittedly spent
bv this body on buildings. Of which a large pro
portion are admittedly defective, rise 10 over
twenty million dollars The law still comPh
parents TO send their children TO schools where
pestilence is rife Only one or two of the worst
have been closed.
The Morals Of Trade controversy also continues
If p discussion which is all on one side can be
called controversy. The ncrminated trades
men continue silent. Their profits are now stated
at from 100 TO 200 per cent Nobody seems TO
understand how they can be diminished, and no
tradesman ever pretends 10 conduct his business
honestly Free trade not fair trade, is the English
merchants maxim. The builders are more heart
IL tbap thor MIR
saws that the building trade is system of organ
lied rascality.
Mr.. Mallocks new book, In an Enchanted
Island is a book on Cyprus full of interesting
details and picturesque description mingled with