New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-09

feat of this huge combination, which
might perhaps be called conspiracy, against
society. 1t cannot be truly alleged that the
Wsn had real grievances Pay is high nnd
hAdrs Of work are short in Australia. The men
struck against neither. They, or rather their
unions. struck against free labor. They demanded
as other unions elsewhere have demanded, con-
trpl over their employers business They aenleo
to any Saan the right to work unless ne Joinea
the union submitted to union laws, ana refused
10 labor side BY side with a non-unionst: IRIS
claim the uhions sought to enforce py s'ike on
greater scale than has been known anywhere iu
the world. They succeeded 50 far as 10 innico
heavy loss on the employers ana 10 oause sfva'
Inconvenience to society in general bue 'ne
heaviest loss of all was to the men themselves
The men and unions now SURRENDER uhcohu'"o"
ally. They have obtained no concession' anu
improved their own position in no single iespec"
The employers met combination with comonatioh'
They stood together. and their victory Is lesson
which employers in England ana America may
study with profit.
There has been all through the week SIM
merinr of discontept and disorder at the London
docks which the leaders of the COOKERS nave
succeeded in nreyenting from breaking out into
OMEN war The more violent section of the men
wanted to strike. The unionist officials were
against it, for several reasons among which want
of funds is nerhaps chief The Dock Committee
have the upper hand for the moment and are
likely to keen it Just so long as they maintain
their uresent resolute and courageous attitude
Mr.. Balfour has started on fresh tour through
DONEGAL to see for himself as before the accuai
condition of things with which he has TO deal
The Parnellites sent one OF their numper, MI
Do 1frpr
Swift McNeill NJ p, to shadow Mr. banour' "i'h
instructions apparently to prevent those demon-
strations of goodwill which accompanied hln' IL
Connaught Mr.. McNeill's enorts were iesene"
by the local patriots, and the success oi ni' ni'
sion as whole seems slight. MI. nanour mae
been exceedingly we'll received Donesal' IKE
Connemara, is aware that his objecS Is 10 prolv,e
the relief of distress and push forward 1ne ouiiu'
ins Of liaht railways, and that as result muon
money will flow into these parts he ms n.au0
one other thing clear by his speech at dienues'
tho. tho Innd-Purchsse bill will be pressed In
Parliament with all the power of the Government.
That bill. in Mr. Balfour's Judgment, Will 90 more
than all else to prevent periodical distress In the
conRested districts.
ur c,ads,ones speeches at PEBBLES and Car
,isl. have added nothing to his Midiothlan pro-
crouma IL procramme it can be called. AIter
some dozen speeches the country is not one whit
wiser and knows absolutely nothing more apout
the Home- -Rule of the future than it knew before.
The phrase survives; the policy Is an lmpene'rap'e
mystery. Whether the Ministry be much dam
AGED by all the invective poured out upon IL Is a
matter Of opinion.
One result of this fifth campaign is, neverthe-
less. clear Mr.. Gladstone has made upon the
mind of the English an impression OF uniainhe
vigor and vitality, which will stand him IN good
stead. They admire him, as they admired Lord
Palmerston at his age, because OF his age. Inc
older he gets the more they will admire him. lie
is never tired of alluding to his age lie hardly
ever makes a speech or writes letter without
dwelling on it, This used to be thought sign OF
consciousness of falling powers 1t is now Thought
a calculated appeal to the sympathies of his fel-
He returns to Hawarden in
higher spirits and better health than when he left
The end of Mr.. Gladstone's Midlothian CAM
paipn. with it's innunerable and interminable
speeches, is but the signal for more oratory from
others Mr.. Goschen has rivalled his former leader
in length if in nothing else. The Chancellor Of
the Exchequer indeed replied with considerable
effect to some Of the many counts OF Mr.. Glad
stones Indictment of the Ministry and eyposed-a
task only too easy-some of his mistakes and mis-
statements on Irish and other questions.
II ANYTHING has injured Mr.. Gladstone 1t is
Lord Hartington's demonstration OF his inaccuracy
Mr.. Gladstone was asked in Midlothian. How is
IL that. though you said in the House of Com
mons it passed the wit Of man to devise scheme
for the retention of the Irish members at West
minister, you now say there are several ways OF
doing it? II never said SO, replied MIR. Glad
stone "I said it could not be done without H.
convenience and objections. i say so still" Lord
Harrington has shown that these qualifying words
were not used by Mr. Gladstone, and neither Mr.
Gladstone nor any Of his many organs has yet
found it convenient to reply to Lord harrington
Nor do they reply to his remarks on Mr.. Glad
stones amazing saying that the Irish ought TO hate
the law His whole speech would be good reading
for people who take glib views Of Home Kule,
Or who believe it simple thing to take kingdom
to pieces and put it together again.
Nobody seems to know who started the latest
batch of stories about Lord Randolph Churchills
return to the Ministry. They were current last
week, but did not then seem worth contradlctlng.
But Lord Randolph himself has now thought IL
best to write three lines to say that there Is
not an atom of foundation for them. The papers
say he is going to the Riviera. lie Is In 1act'
going to Egypt He leaves London next week
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The racing season being over-a very successful
me for him-he finds nothing in England at
tractive enough to keep him during the season
If fogs certainly not an autumn and winter
session of Parliament, with prospect of four
weeks over Tipperary in the House of Commons.
q is possible to get an appetite for Christmas
by other means than that.
Lord Randolphs health is very good. He did
mt oven suffer from Mr.. Chamberlain's amable
emark that other men could lead the House of
commons better. which was cabled here apropos
# these rumors Mr.. Chamberlain. notwith-
it. is tolerably certain that should Lord
rejoin this or join some future Tory
Ministry. he would be the Leader of the House.
The net Liberal gain in the municipal elections
throughout England is forty. So much the Con-
ervatves admit. They urge. however, that mu-
licipal elections not fought general political
ssues such as Home Rule This is true. 1t is
.lso true that politics have nevertheless something
o do with these conquests. The question is. how