New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-24

ton and a great deal is left. Iwo-thlrds OF the
children are still taught in voluntary schools.
Free education means elther CLOSING
those schools or relieving them from |
clerical influences. The cost OF them would |
then have to be borne by the State. Add that |
TO the remission of the fees now paid by the !
children in School Board schools, and 1T means !
SIS, ,OOO, 900 more taxes. The School Boards have !
never been quite popular, and are Less so since
this weeks discovery that the London school !
Board chief of them all, cannot do business IN |
business-lille way. They have spent slO'oOO,oOo
in school houses which, or some of which, are
already tumblino down. The buildings were put
up without supervision. The builders have played
the usual tricks full exposure is promised
and a huge scandal is expected presently.
Day by day the discussion of Socialistic queS-
tions increases in volume. " Inc Times, Whlch
is worldly wise in such matters, gives the Social
lists full swing. They revel in abSurdities. Few
indeed of them have thought out any one of the
subjects all of which they hapdlc with freedom
The London tradesmen, for example, have them
selves exposed the selfish folly of their claim for
what thcy call Z" fair rents" more clearly than
even Lord Bramwell, the b. Of /" The Times" has
done il for them: or 4" The Times itself, which
ridicules them without mercy and their arguments
as sorry can't SO lucrative is trade in London
that the tradesmen create keen competition
for trade premises then denounce the hndIords
for not renting TO A" for 81 90 shop for which
"Bp is eager to pay $500. The London public,
systematically plundered by the London trades
men, listen to their complaints with stolcal COM
posure They have done, at any rate, one service
they have raised, and the public press nave
taken up, the whole question Of the morals OF
trade; and the verdict is that there are none
The general question of ownership in land is
still actively debated That debate runs all III one
direction Two more letters from Professor liuAley
have appeared. Mr.. Herbert Spencer has retreu
from the field in none too good order; ana lroIes
sor Huxley can find no better opponent TO demohsh
than the Newcastle Socialist, Ladder, VINO argues
| in one breath that equity does not permit prop
erty in land, and in the next that land ough" u
be the property of the State. Perhaps one single
| act has done more toward social reform than all
this everfiowing stream of talk; and that IS the
act of a capitalist, Sir Edward Guinness, whose
gift of 81 25O 600 toward the housing OF the poor
| in London and Dublin is here reckoned as by lar
! the most splendid example of private munihcence
| by any Englishman in his lifetime. lhe announce
| ment of it appeared side by side with Mr. Morley
speech and is the most practical of all COM
| mentaries on that discourse. The want OF houses
for really poor people is just as great as before
| Mr. Peabody's gift. Mr.. Peabody's buildings are
! all filled with clerks and wellof workmen. Sir
Edward Guinness will try to carry out Mr Pea
body's original plan to supply homes for the
poorest of laborers. His three trustees are well
| chosen. Lord Rowton has leisure Mr.. Ritchie is
an excellent man of business and an East End
merchant: both he and Mr. Flunkett, who
is First Commissioner of Works, are members
Of tine Government, with specill knowledge OF
the subject.
The bakers having all along the line, the
| strike record this week is shorter than last
The master bakers have more than recouped them
selves for advanced wages or diminished hours
by advancing the price Of the Loaf simple
solution of their troubles, which is extremely
unpalatable TO those very worlImen who fosterec
and assisted the bakers strike. The London
| lighternen, dockers, and other waterside work
men are still in what Mr.. Morley calls stir
and ferment" but it is uncertain what they
| will try next 1t is to the credit of Mr.. Burns
and the other leaders that they have discounten-
anced the attempt 10 rcpudiate the recent settle
ment The men, without a leader. are help
| less nor will they replace Mr.. Burns by any
of his rivals The Burton brewers struck and
won instantly The railway sgnalmen held
great meeting yesterday they want shorter hours
which in their own and the public interest,
they ought to get-and better wages.
The Northwestern Railway has already adj
vanced wages The omnibus and tramcar
men in London have come to terms with the
companies, who make large concessions. Three
thousand dockers struck yesterday at Bristol,
because foreigners are employed; the employers
collapsed at once and discharged the foreign
devils" to use the Chinese phrase. nine weeks
factory strike in FoIfarshire has ended in COM
promise. A fresh miners strike has occurred
| ,1,sbi
there should be too much peace in ireland the
Dublin bakers now propose to strike.
The public hearings of the Parnell Commission
are at an end Sir Henry James yesterday con-
cluded his speech No more evidence will be
offered by "The Tines or by the defendants.
None is called for by the judges who have now
prepared their report to be submitted to Parha-
ment Sir Henry Jamess long argument has
been, by general consent, worthy of the OCCASION
! and worthy of Sir Charles RusselPs opening Tor
the defence He sums up the history
Of the Parnelite movement as con-
spiracy against law, order and prosperity
a conspiracy supported by crime and
maintained by contributions from the lrlsh en-
camped in America No parts of his speech have
| been more plain-spoken than those which dealt
! with the American wing Of this conspiracy ana
he fired of parting broadside at them as one
Of the chief agents in the policy of violence ana
crime The public will be only too happy 10
forget all about the Commission till the Juds-
ment of the judges brings 1t finally again before
! them.
Mr. Stanley's own telegram, followed ry cap
tain Wissmann's, has sileEced the last OF the
doubtcrs 1t HIS sienced also those critics VINO
| have SO long maintained that his expedition was
a failure. There is much joy in Berlin as Ia
London, the Germans taking some wel!-cdrheu
credit to themselves for Captain WiSsInahh
iudicious exertions to meet Mr. Stanley with sup
plies. Not the least striking incident of the whole