New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-09
THE NEWS OF EUROPE. :
BRITISH FnEETRADERS ExULTlMS IN THE
SUCCESS OF THE DEMOCRATS.

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London, Nov. s.-The Democratic victory IN
America has been received with peals Of exuita-
ton in England. Day by day, and every day, and
in Journals Of every political complexion, this
rout Of the Republican party in the United states
has been celebrated in strains which rise daily
higher. Already in Imagination the British manu-
facturer sees his American hva crushed ana
American markets passing under British control.
The Mckinley tariff, to his mind. is practically
repealed by Tuesdays vote. 1t has since been
pointed out by the more sober that such repeal II
it is evor to come, is long way of. and the
rejoicinss of Sheffield and Bradford Of Manchester
and Leeds. arc considerably abated Most journals.
however have convinced themselves that the next
Presidential contest must be fought on the square
Free Trade and Tariff issue, and that the result
Is forcgone conclusion in favor Of Frce-Tr
"The Times" once more nominates Mr.. Cleveland.
Ave should think.' observes this English organ
Of American Democracy. it would not be
easy for the Democrats to find ADLER
candidate than Mr.. Cleveland, or one better
fitted to follow up his party's success. I"
Il does not much care about Governor
Hill, and doubts whether, outside the State Of
New-Yerk, he would meet with public favor.
In its anxiety that its Democratic friends In
America should commit no blunder to imperil their
chances, The Times warns them not to entangle
themselves with the Farmers Alliance. 1t says ::
ave trust that the Democrats will adhere to the
sound principles of finance and currency laid down
in Mr.. Clcvelands message" Free silver Is to its
mind-and here our British friend secs clearly
only the newest variation Of the old cry of cheap
money. Even his friendship for American Demo-
Gratis and his hunger for American markets do
not blind the British man Of business to the
dangers of unlimited coinage. The business and
financial worlds stand aghast at the proposal that
the American Government shall agree to buy all
of particular commodity that particular set
Of producers can supply.
However, the worst news is always sent here
in the crudest form. AS for the Republicans and
Republican opinion, all we are allowed to know
is that you are dazed, bewildered. demoralized
and incapable Of intelligent comment on the
disaster which has befallen you. Hardly a
word is quoted from any Republican paper.
Continental politics have, with two exceptions
blumbered and slept all through the week. Greece
and Italy attract such little attention it is
needful to bestow on them. NJ. Delyannis has
assumed Office with words Of peace in his mouth
and hatred Of Turkey in his heart; for which
nobody need blame him. He has been inter-
viewed, and says that he means TO he moderate.
But the Greece behind him, The Greece which
turned out NJ. Tricoupis and brought in this
firebrand to succeed him, is not moderate. The
Extremist party in the Chamber is already moving.
M. Ralli who leads it, has brought in q swagger-
ing resolution about Crete. and there must be
debate.
The event of interest In Italy is the meeting
at Milan between Signor Crispi and General Won
Caprivi, to be followed by visit of the German
Chancellor to the King Of Italy. There will be
plenty of conjectures and plausible guesses about
what passed in these interviews, which may all
be received with caution.
The reports that Professor Koch. of Berlin. has
really discovered a cure for consumption are al
most daily becoming more circumstantial and cred
ible. Professor Koch himself, however. is eau
tious. He continues his experiments and seems
TO care neither for Sensation nor fortune. He ex-
poets to be able to announce his conclusions
few weeks hence and till then the world may wait:
or all the world but the German Emperor, whose
genius for going off al halfcock has not been
equalled in modern timeE He has already started
a scheme for a Consumption College for the Army,
with Professor Koch as president.
The London County Council have resolved by
. decisive majority to enter upon the most i'm
portant scheme yet undertaken by any municipal
authority for the better housing Of the poor.
After debating and rejecting two rival proposals
they voted to spend a million and half in buying
up some acres in Bethnal Green and pulling down
and rebuilding the houses. They had legal power
% require the landlords to put their premises in
sanitary condition They might-which was the
second alternative proposal-have dealt with part
of this large district themselves, calling upon the
landlords to deal with the other part. Their de-
cision probably commits them to very large enter
nrses in the future as well as The Socialists
hail IL as if it were the beginning of new
Socal listic era 1t is, in fact, nothing Of the kind
new era will be felt, If anywhere, In the tax-
ravers' pockets But the doctrine OF decent houses
for the decent poor is an old one in England The
Tories were the first to accept It. Lord Beacons-
field was one of the earliest Of his party to recog-
uize the coming necessities. Socialists of the
Henry George type oppose one condition of the
present scheme, because it involves paying the
landlords for property of which they think the
landlords ought to be robbed for the dement, OF
that part of the community which does not own
land Nor is the present measure purely phi'ah-
thropic. Houses are to be built ana ieh@o on
terms which viii pay-or are exPecteo :" pas
interest on the capital no"uon ~
=, 90 far as this area is concerned, its own land
lord That is one more spike in Mr. Henry
(,eorce,s wheel Il is almost the contrary Of what
be calls naturalization.
MANY wild things were said In the oouse
~ debate. The London County Council u not u
body where words of truth and s'oerness s a.s
.lwsys-or perhaps often-to be heard one oeun,
.illor. a Nonconformist minister, relieved ms s'a'