New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-11
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
COMMENTS ON THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S
SPEECH.

-MR. PARNELL-HOME RULE-A AE'i ii'
ANcE-MR. sTANLEY-ME o'BRIEN
-CoPYRlGHT-MRS. LANGTRY'
rRycARrE TO THE TRBUSE.i
Copvriobf. 1890 BIZ The Nec York Tr'oune.
Jondon Nav 10-The talking Emperor has been
talking this week TO the German Parliament.
His speech pleased all parties, say the Berlin
teleprams He declared for peace abroad, nut
proposcs to prepare nevertheless, at home for war
lie discussed domestic matters IN hls well-known
pilitary-s -sociastic manner. What ne now wants
Is the programme of the Berlin Conference. That
carried into effect, all will be for the best III the
best of all possible worlds; or. at least. iii Ger
MANY. which has the best of all possible Emperors.
English critics comment cOmplacently on the fact
that nearly every important reform now urged
for Germany has long been carried out in Eng
land. The Emperor says nothing about renewing
the Anti-Socialist law, which expires this autumn,
and il is inferred that no attempt will be made
to renew it, The ordinary law Is thought sufficient
TO deal with social disturbances; sufficient, that
is, when the self-conident young Emperor is there
TO enforce it.
The effect Of this discourse abroad has been
on the whole good. What the Emperor said
about peace said with emphasis which
has made an impression. He seems writes
one observer ito have convinced himself that
peace is his own policy. as if he had invented
and taken out patent for it, and he would
therefore defend it with all his characteristic
energy in behalf of whatever is his. There are
advantages to Europe in this Imperial egotsm
His confidence does not prevent him from asking
for great sum of money TO increase the army
Peace is to be preserved by the help of 420 new
great guns and some odd thousands OF soldiers.
Ten million dollars are wanted for these paclhc
objects. and the Radicals and other parties agree
in supporting these demands.
Most conspicuous in the EmpeTsr's speech was
his silence about Prince Bismarck. lie mentioned
him not neither him nor General Won taprlVi'
His Imperial Majesty vouchsafed not word 10
the Reichstag to Intimate that he had ianished
from his councils TIE foremost statesman of
Europe and appointed soldi-r ignorant of af-
fairs 70 succeed MIN. Those are unimportant
details. Il, your Emperor, am here, and all is
we'll" Such is, in effect, the assurance which
this assured young man gives TO the representa-
tives OF Germany. Stories are still flying about
touching the relations between the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck Letters have been exchanged,
says one account: letters presumably not quite
amcable. IL appears TO be true that the En-
peror did ask Dr. Schweningcr whether Prince
Bismarck was addicted 70 morphia, and II is
certainly true that Prince Bismarck has again
publicly declared that he was dismissed from the
Emperors service, the Berlin censor this time al
lowing the phrase TO tse telegrapbed abroad. Baron
Won Pfuhl, in the PrusSlan Upper House, and
Herr Won Levetzow. President of the Reichstag,
have both pronounced enloIies in their respective
chambers OH Prince Bismarck, both assemblies
appauding warmly. The members of the Reich
stag stood while their President spoke Of the
late Chancellor, a tribute honorable in the cir
eumstances alike 70 them and 70 him.
Mr. Tenniel's cartoon in this weeks Punch"
depicts the Emperor larking about in the bow Of
a boat and bis fellow-sovereigns quaking in the
stern sheets Underneath you read the title. Ii
is "L'Enfant Terrible" Chorus In the stern
Don't go on like that, or you'll upset us all
There are verses also by the chorus of eXpOstnlat
ing passengers entreating his fathers not thus
TO play the vulgar little boy. But this is going
too far.
Tie second municipal elections in Paris proved
even more disastrous 70 Boulangism than was eX-
pected. One new Boulangist only was chosen.
In the whole new Municipal Council there will
be but two supporters Of the pretender, who,
year ago last January, carried the whole city by
an immense majority. Seldom has there been
more rapid collapse of more incapable charlatan
So complete is his defeat that NJ. Naquet. General
Boulanger's champion in the press, admits that
the game is up and writes mOurnful eptaph on
his late chief The French Republic does, indeed,
seem more soldy established than ever. The
crises it has endured since NJ. Carnots election
have bnt strengthened it, General confidence in
N. Carnot has increased. The present Ministry
are stronger than when they took Office and the
Chamber, though still split up into groups, Is
proving itself capable of legislating in parlia-
mentary spirit.
Last Sundays huge meeting in Hyde Park in
dicates that wOrkingmen are accepting thc most
vio.ent men among them as leaders. Mr.. Broad
hurst and Mr. Burt displaced They are no
longer in French phrase, in the movement.
They are able, honest men, genuine artisans, ana
worthy representatives. of artisans In the House Oh
Commons But they have been pushed to one SIDE
Mr.. John Barns and Mr.. Michael Davitt are the
new leaders. The great majority OF that quarter
Of a million workmen who turned out on Sunday
followed these men. The parties TO this dem
onstration were three in number The Central
Committee led the first and largest Besides
the men above named. this body included sGch
red-hot frebrands as Mr.. Cunninghame Graham,
Mrs. Avelng, and even Stepniak, for the EngHsh
worhngman no longer dsdans the aiilahcc ol
ndhandcd Russian Nihilist. Next came the
Trades Councils. a powerful body, once almost
autOcratc, but now far below the others III IN
fuence. The Social Democrats brought up the
rear.
All agree in wanting eight hours the nominal
object of this demonstration; but disagree as 10
the means Of getting it. The Central Committee
insist on goodness by act of Parliament The
Trades Unions would prefer to work by trades
union methods, and the Social Democrats by over
turning things generally. They all met in the
same way the argument that reduction of hours
Of labor means reduction of the English power TO
compete with Continental labor. The eight-hour
day is to De international. That. says resolu- |
ton put and carried at all the Hyde Park plat
forms. is the most Immediate step toward the ulti
mate emancipation Of workers; whatever that may |
mean Mr. Burns explains in part what il means.
II is to he remedy for the serious condition of |
working people throughout Great Britain II is |