Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-22
NOTED ORATORS.
Much Interest Manifested in the Coming
Speech of Gladstone and Parnell
Labor Organizations Divided on the May-Day
CeIebration-The BOOtmaker's Strike
Still On-A Neutral Country.
BalfOur,s Land Purchase Bill.

Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, April 20.-Great interest GEN.
tiers in Mr.. ParneIl's amendment to the
Balfour land purchase pill, which the
Irish leader is expected to offer when
debate on the bill is resumed
Tomorrow. Mr.. Gladstone is
expected to make an important speech in
support Of the amendment, and as it will
be his first appearance since the recess,
there is sure to be a large attendance
and an apprecIative audience. The pos
sibility that Mr.. Parnell will also speak
adds to the interest. He is heard SO
rarely, and there is so
muoh mystery and singularlty
about him that his set speeches ara re-
garded as marked events. AS for Mr..
Gladstone, he now attracts not alone by
his great fame as statesman and ora
tor, but also by the fact which every
one realizes that the privilege
of hearing HIM must soon,
in the course of nature,
be thing OF the past.
HOSTILE LABOR ORGANIZATION.
There are five separate labor organiza-
! tions in London now engaged in engi-
| neering the eight-hour movements for
May l. Each will have its own celebra-
ton OF the event, and all are hostile to
| one another, or, at least there
is not mutual agreement among them.
| Their demands differ not only in detail
| but in matters of principle, and it
looks now as though such lack of unani
nifty must have very damaging effect
| upon the projected movement for gen.
| eral Improvement in the position Of
| laboE3s The differences among various
bodiss are believed to be irreconcilable.
A CLEVER TRICK.
sstTfle strike of the bootmakers is not yet
Fsettled, though some of the men are ex-
pected to resume work tomorrow. Man
ayers of the strike claim that the en-
ployers played clever trick in
order to demoralize the strikers.
| They made a temporary concession
| and managed 20 have a statement widely
| published that the strike was ended.
| The object was TO stop donations of
money which were coming in from all
quarters in aid of the striking
woPkmen This purpose was
" f4argely successful and oonces-
s Efon was then repudiated, leaving
I the workmen in a worse condition than
ever. The managers claim to be able
however to maintain organization among
the men and hold them until the situa-
ton becomes generally understood and
contributions again begin coming in.
a NEUTRAL STRIP.
a proposition has recently been
preached Tor partitioning between Prus-
STA and Belgium of the little neutral dis
trict of Moresnet, better known as
"Altenberg, - lying between the two
countries named. This district has been
governed by a joint commission OF
Belgian and Prussian officials, and has
paid taxes to both governments. The
arrangement has been a somewhat cum
bersome one, especially in view of the
smallness of the district, the en-
tire population numbering less than
5000 persons. It has, therefore, been
considered advisable to divide the strip
between the two countries but the people
of the little territory, it now
appears, are not so neutral as the
form of their government would indicate
and they have petitioned King Leopold
of Belgium not to countenance the pro-
posed division. 1t is evident from the
form of the petition that if their statu:
is to be changed at ali they want to be-
| come Belgisns IN nationality, as they
mainly are by race and language. The
matter Is likely, however, to be decided
| by consideration of international confer
! ence-ratheT than view to the prejudice:
of a handful of citizens.
DR.. Fabey, minister Of Justice in the
| Wurtemburg government has resigned
and will be succeeded by DR.. Kohlheas
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