New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-19
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
..o,. ..SDs RELATIONS WITH ITALY AND
PORTUGAL IN AFRICA


sALFouR-MR. GLADSTONE IN MID
1orHIAN-THE o'sHEA DIVORCE
MR.. LEcKY's HIsToRY-THE
rARRAR-oAssELL CASE.
rsY CABLE 10 TIE THrBuHE1
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Tandem Oct lathe failure Of the negounS
sions between England and Italy uu eS
"a the italian demand for Kassala- 10 surNnoer
Ks..a,. u IN the Judgment Of Egyptian expefet
inno..;ble. England is a trustee for Egypt, ana
she cannot sscrifce Egyptian interesu' S''h io''
can oAe abandon q post which Is v1teL Inc oou,
dan b vital to Egypt. beroer' says o.l 0anue'
Baker, 10 the key to the Soudan. But hassala is
the KEY to Berber The French rejoiced in the
run,urs. which they hoped might cool tho exist
inc Goodwill btween Italy and England. But Of
ALIENATION or resentment on either side there 10 NO
sign
The tempest in the Portuguese teapot has sim
mered down. and thc crisis is over for the moment.
A Cabinet has been formed by General Chrysos-
tomo whose name is q reminisoence OF the Eastern
Church, with a sight favor of opera bouHe. He
is eighty years old, His first act Is to repudiate
the Anglo-Portuguese agreement, the English
steamers meantime having gone up the ZambeS.
Portugal probably hopes that France Will inter
vene. France has refused to do anything Of the
kind but hope springs eternal in the Portuguese
breast To induce the English people to take
Portugal seriously is impossible. 1t is only the
Foreign Of1lce which keeps on q grave face amid
these difficulties. There is however strong Re-
publican party in Portugal. and revolution is pos
sible any day. and probable no long time hence, un
less some very different solution from the present.
be discovered by the Monarch.
Proceedings at the various Socialist congresses
on the Continent arc Of little interest. What is
most striking about the speeches Is the tone
Of comparative moderation. Ilerren Bebel and
Liebknecht perhaps their two foremost men, both
declare against outrages and even deprecate the
Use Of violent measures, except under necessity.
They do not, however, speak for the Anarchist
party of Europe The most serious proposal Of
the Socialists proper Is proposal to go rather
largely into the newspaper business. Thus should
the peoples Of benighted countries be converted.
in England Socialistic agitation, including strikes
end rumors Of strikes has been less than Tor some
time past. Even the corn porters in the docks
have gone TO work. The great Australian strike
seems to have collapsed. MY. Champion, the Eng
Ish Socialist, who went out to look after it,
telerraphs to Mr.. Burns that things have been
,nismanaged and no amount of money from Eng
ployers have held together and refused conces-
sons, and are the masters Of the situation.
The Mckinley tariff continues to vex tile soul
of the Briton. The latest lament comes from olf
Thomas Farrer, . very respectable relic OF COD
denis time formerly Permanent SECRETARY 10 bne
Board Of Trade, aud now vloe<Cns1mAn Oh nas
omasn, body known a. the London County Coun-
Gil He belongs to the Mount Sinai division Of
do To m q
trine; it Is Gospel Tears stream down his
cheeks as he means out, This bill has given deep
cause for regret to many true friends OF self
government, who see that pure democracy Ii
CAPABLE of acts Of jobbery as gross and OF acts
of folly as suicidal as have been committed oy
absolute monarchies or by o1garchies. by "a
pure democracy the worthy Sir Thomas seems
10 refer to the United States, which is consider
ably further from being pure democracy than
England. lie really ought TO get bis politics rlShp
before he puts them in print. The point OF MS
letter, If 1t have q point Is In his remark THAI
"the Mckinley law, absurd as 1t is, is only tho
natural and logical outcome Of the economical
policy which the United States have been pur-
suing ever since their civil war" 1t Is too OBJ
vious from the following sentences that Sir
Thomas believes Protection as Americas policy,
dates from 1861, and was incidental to revenue,
found TO protect particular interests, 90 other In
teres,s set up q demand for protection too. Thus
is fiscal history written in England BY doctrin-
aire Of considerable eminencc, whose efrusion is
thought worthy Of *The Timess" largest type.
Nor Is there anything more sensible or instructive
10 send you.
In truth, the English have lost their heads on
this subject Mr.. Gladstone promises to dis
course on 1t next week In Midlothian. He has
already denounced it on q postcard as "a de-
plorable error, attended with severe and cruel
consequences to innocent persons The west
ern farmer is onco more trotted out He Is furi
ous thinks John Bull himself furious, to whom
the Western farmer is q perennial comfort. But
Sir Thomas Farrer has improved upon him. he
Las heard of the Vermont farmer. who Is going
to yet down his rifle. What he Will 90 with
his rife when he has got it down ls ieIt " oon-
lecture But there really Is no end nor h"i'
to the nonsense the English Frec-lraoel now
talks about the American tarin anu no' 0nAS
talks. but seems to believe. This weeks prize
,o,r b. divided between Sir Thomas and The
Spectator. which advises its American aihes
since Free Trade is an unpopular expression. 70
call il the Tariff of the Pilgrim Fathers no"
popular that would be in Virginia!
The most yeracious and authoEitauVe s'"''
nent which has yet appeared about 'Io ansSso s'Ss
Irish famine comes from Mr. james H.
His name is familiar to everybody ~no 80 -'r
anything about Irish distress. he mas oe1n W."
ing for many years in the most prac'i'a. ",'..vs
relieve distress where it exists. Ior ~
exists Nobody knows more ABOUT 'ne
His eyperence goes back to lsAo' "nen NJ
one Of the workers for the relief OF 'he i"u'
lie now saws first. that there is no danger OF
what is termed a famine; second. that the area
over which a serious failure in the potato
crop exists is limited to few wes''in
unions; third, that the general condit'on 0l
the people in the oongested distric" renaerS
than better able to bear the loss. partial or eh.e
Of the potato crop than in 1880; and fourth, snas