New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-04

the same gentlemen who wanted an autumn s''-
sion. Some Of them are Irish. They insist that
20 late date az the end Of January gives
too little time for legislation, and that either
Home Rule will be sacrificed, or all other meas
fres will be sacrificed There are, however,
large numbers Of intelligent i-arsons in their
country who would face either alternative with
equarimity, or even both Such agitation a. there
s is confined to Radical circles on one or the
other side of the Irish Channel
If Parliament is not in session, the London
County Council 10, and has had busy week
Its present business is not so much MANAGING the
municipal affairs of London as cXpoundng tho
new principles on which the Prcgrossivcs, who
are in a great majority on the Council, think they
ought 10 be managed. 1t has accepted for the
present the leadership OF the distinguished pro-
fcssor who led Mr.. Gladstone into the melancholy
bunder about Colonel Doping. Profcs or James
Stuart, now editor of a halfpcnny Socialist sheet,
proposed on Tuesday a resolution in favor of tan
inc ground values. This was carried by 66 10
o. and IL "A project for which much may br snid
if fairly carried out II is, however, so far a.
the London County Council is concerned an cX-
preston of hostility TO London landlords. 1t IL
also an attempt TO rccoup the Council for its
foolish sacrifice of coal duties which produced
g. 900 900 yearly without any serious
lurdrn on anybody. This sum, which fiun@
away in dccrcrcc 10 doctrinaircs, would have
given the Council an ample revenue, for want OF
which it is now unable 70 execute needed improve
mcnts The proposed raid landlords cannot
be made without authority from Parliament,
which is not likely to he given just yet.
II the Radicals have their way. they will
tax the landlord not only on lis actual re-
CENTS from grourd rents. but on the whole
| present value of the ground The present SO
| cialistc notion is {, tax anybody who has prop
crty for the benefit of those who have none.
| Very interesting statcr.e'ts of thcir views may
| hc found in this months Nineteenth Century.
| More than fifty pages Of that important review
are devoted TO the articles Of labor cham
| pons on the labor question The editor performs
useful public function ir giving these gen
| tlcmcn an opportunity Of putting their views
| before the community. Mr. john Burns de-
nounccs once more IN" present competitive form
of society. and breaches the gospel Of colcctlv-
ism, Of revolution and Of those forms Of plundcr
| known by the gentle names Of muncipali2aton
ard naturalization. whether Of land or of other
property Mr. Kcir-IIardic, W. i. for West
ham, has more simple and practical programme
lie would levy taN Of 10 per cent on all
| incomes over 1000 and hang Mr. Chamber
| lain The suggestion Of this latter remedy is in
direct hut pointed. and is embodied in a com
parison between Mr. Chamberlain and Foulon
who was strung up to lantern soon after the
| Bastillc fell
There are writers less violent than Mr.. Burns oi
Mr.. Kcir-IIardc, but with the Socialist in England
violence - becoming n favorite method The
| Tower Hill meetings OF the unemployed continue
daily, and there almost daily demonstrations ant
dcrutatons of one kiod or another. There was
an attempt at a midnight march - tho West End
which the police ruthlc,sly broke up. Ther'
was "A dcputaiion Yesterday 10 The Postmaster
General. 10 protest against overtime in the p'st
Office II was Air. Cuelch. the tyrant-queller. wh'
| introduced the depntation and made th" usia
speech minus threats and had language. Tor Tho
absence Of which Di. Avcling apoocizcl. Threl
and bad language Gcrc, said Dr.. Avcline. perfectly
justilablc on TDwcr Hill. and he regretted thai
they could not hc used this occasion. Mr.
Arnold Morley, the Pos'mastcr-Gencr1l. who cN''
| cutcs like othc- Postmastcrs-Gcnrral. the decree
of his Secretary, Listened with attention and re-
piled with pocnc,s 10 -lcsc Trades. lie woulf
do what he could in promotion of the policy of th'
unemployed llc added on his own account an'
| Sir Arthur Blackwopds that he was opposed Il
| Sunday labor in the Fos'oilicc, and would limit j
50 far as he could Such is the spirit now doml
nant in that great department. The correspondence
| Of the world j. 10 hc delayed, and millions o
! letters, European and American, stranded fO
| twenty four hours in the Brtis.: Postoilice. il
obedience to Sabbatarian scrupos. &. w ).