New-York tribune., 1892-03-27

| emgrants, whether Jewish or others The trouble
Is that great numbers of them will present them
| serves without any badge earmarll Of pauper-
| lsm They start with funds realized from forced
safes OF what property they had in Russia They
pay or could pay, their own passage money. The
| jewish committee of KOnigsberg have warned their
| fellow-countrymen against pushing matters too
| far, and have even told them that New-York is
| closed 10 them. The Jewish organ in ST. Peters
| burg, where a Jewish organ is still allowed to
exist, is doing its best to check emigration. But
the success of any Of these efforts is doubtful.
| The thing which could arrest the exodus
! might be the action of the German authorities.
| If their decree of exclusion could be made known
| throughout Russia. 1t is measure which will
involve cruel hardship, bnt there must be cruel
hardships in any case. and it is not Germany
nor America, but Russia which is responsible for
/ them. The decree made its appearance in official
/ form yesterday in Brcslau paper. It's provisions
/ are most stringent, and might be considered with
advantage in New-Iork. Even Jews with money
and Jews whom the frontier committee guarantee
to support on their journey, and those who have
both money and ocean tickets, TO be turned
back as if destitute. The Berlin dispatch from
which l quote alleges that Jews have already
been shot in attempting to evadc tie frontier
guards The estimate of the number now seek
ing to leave Russia is 900 military cor
don along the entire German frontier Is
threatened
What is Russia doing in these wretched cir
cumstances of her own creation? Well. the Rus
sian Minister of the Interior has teleGraphed to
the Governor of the Pale for report on the pros
pcct of spring emigration. "'Thc agricultural
Jews of Cherson," adds this writer, are in terri
bic plight and but for the unostcntatious charity
of Lord Rothschild and his core goniss in Eng
land, the death roll would have been enormous
Lord Rosebery, who has taste for epgram, re-
marked on Wednesday that English foreign policy
consists of two questions the Eastern Question and
the Western question; the Eastern question III
India, the Western in Canada. The foreign policy
of England in other words, has become colonial
policy. This generalization, which is perhaps
rather too general gave Lord Rosebcry an eX-
cellent occasion for saying useful word about
Canadian raids into Behring sea. But Lord Rose
berry, with the Foreign Office in view. does not
feel himself at liberty TO do more than to express
hope that the United States will never he un-
friendly TO England He abstains with care from
taking sides, either with Canada America.
Nobody knows better than he does the irresponSi-
bic pugnacty of our Canadian ncighbors. the pug
nacity of the small boy in the street with the
big brother in reserve. But you must not expect
10 near the WnOle truth on lIls supJcct Hom any
English lips, least of all from one whose dominant
passion is Imperialism.
So marked is the improvement in the progress
of business in the House Of Commons. that little
is now heard of that collapse swift coming
catastrophe which lately served as a text for
Gladstonian homes The Athanasan tone has
been dropped for the present by the Gladstonian
organs, and Mr. Balfour's I" failure as Leader is
not so much of a failure as il was. Ministers ana
their opponents have seen the Small Holdings blii
pass its critical stage amid sort OF truce ac-
companied by general cheering. Mr.. Gladstone
Joined in the debate of Thursday. blessing ana
damning the bill in the same breath. lie blessel
il as an honest effort in the right direction. hut
wanted compulsion, wanted parish COUNCILS ana
wanted much larger scheme Of leases ms lass
want snrprsed his own followers whose aim IS TO
abolish leases and make the tenant everywhere
owner. or almost everywhere. Mr Baliour saw
tbe point and promptly replied that they wanted
the yeomen to possess the land. not merely TO
occupy IT, So Mr.. Chaplin's Dill was rc'u ''e
second time without flvlslon'
An attempt 10 repeal or modify tie Ia" VI
consniracy HIS been defeated by 40 votes Only III
tbe House of Commons. The attempt had tlc
sunror, of Sir William Harcourt, and the qualiicd
support Of at least one great lawyer, Slr 'n"rie,
Russell Nevertheless IL is far more poiii'a'
than a legal question. 1t is simply an attempt 10
make boycotting legal. Mr.. Gladstone gave 'he
sicnal at tie IIoborn Restaurant last autumn 'he
same Mr. Gladstone who once uchouhceI poS
co,,inc as combination TO destroy private liberty
nv fear of ruin and starvation. The difference Is
that bovcotting was then used In opposition to
him. 1t would now be used in his support Ihere
Is also an English side to this question Inc
Frclisb tradc-unions desire 10 be free to nse
Intimidation in support of strikes and TO prevent
,,en from working when the unions do not WISH
them 10 work. The alliance OF the English unions,
like that of the Irish League, is now prime
object with Mr. Gladstone. Any law disagrecable
70 either he seems ready TO sweep away, If he
can.
The miners Eight Hours bill has got its quietns
for the present and lies buried in the House OF
Commons under a majority OF H. Inc recent
exneriment Of the Miners Federation on the
patience of the public had perhaps something 10
do with the size of this majority. Miners VINO
| play at public expense cannot expect popularity
~ return A split among their friends and advo-
cafes had still greater influence in Increasing the
majority Common-sense and absence OF pohucs
had most Of all Mr. Leake, who brought IN 'he
bill. is a Gladstonian: Mr.. Burt VINO moved us
ro;o,tion is a Gladstonian; Mr.. Chamberlain, who
supported IL III dangerous sPecch u '"''
a,d the Home Secretary who opposed 1t WIN
ability and honest good sense, is a Cnionist MI
John Morley, faithful TO his Newcastle pledges
voted against it, and did some thirty other
GIadstonians Lord Randolph Churchill, whose de-
mocracy takes at times Socaistic turn, voted Ior
the bill in company with Sir William flarcourt Sir
George Trevclyan, and most of the minor lights
Of that faith The major light OF all, the Old
Parliamentary Hand walked out OF the House
,;thout voting. Thus does he cvince his openncss
- mind ON n ouestion with respect TO which there
oro on both sides. votes 10 be gained and votes
| 20 be lost.
Il secms 10 be admitted that there Is large
m,iortv of miners who want an eight hours
bin Mr. Burt admitted II, eulogizng the minor
;tv as large compact and resolute. Mr. Burt
was himself a coal miner, and is STILL l believe,
xI,a m berIa nd Miners, ASsOca-