Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-29

man of means who represents his country
in parliament and writes very able pamph-
lets on economic subjects. But to all bis
arguments his opponents have but one re-
ply: "Whst do you know about jamp 1t
| appears that Mr. Richards accumulated his
fortune in the jam business, and under the
peculiar system which obtains In English
society this fact is supposed to preclude his
knowledge of anything else. The question
quoted is hurled at him wherever he ap-
pears and he is unable to get respectful
| hearing on subjects with which he is
familiar and upon which his opinions
would be valuable.
The suggestion Is made and strongly
pressed in England that the men who man
the navy should be taught how to swim.
Ordinary sailors are instructed and eK-
peoted to qualify In swimming, but the
marines, fremen and engineers are not,
and 1t is fact that large portion of the
latter large body of men who serve on war
ships cannot swim. 1t Is ssid that many
more men would have been saved from the
Victoria but for this fact; also that many
sailors who are good swimmers were un-
doubtedly dragged down by the mea who
were not. The matter has been taken up
in parliament, and It ia probable that
swimming will be insisted on as part OF
the training of every nam serving aboard
ship.
Sir Edward Sullivan draws the following
sad picture of tho condition of the work
ing Glasses in free trade England: In the
present condition of manufacturing indus
tries 1t is foolish to tell the operative class
to attribute the prosperity to free-trade;
they are not prosperous; It is a mookery to
tell them to thank God for full stomach,
when they are erptyl They are not well
off. Never has starvation, pauparism,
crime, discomfort been go plentiful In the
manufacturing districts, never since Eng
land has besn q manufacturing country
has every industry great and small been so
completely depressed; never has work been
80 impossible to hnd, never have the means
and savings of the working classes been at
go low an ebb.
The words of Daniel Webster. spoksn
sixty years ago, have peculiar fitness and
force now. Said he: He who hampers
with currency robs labor of ita bread. he
panders, indeed, to greedy capital, which
is keen sighted and may shift for itself;
but he beggars labor. which is honest, un-
suspecting and too busy with the present
to calculate for the future. The prosperity
of the working class lives, moves and has
its being in established credit, and steady
medium of payment. All sudden changes
destroy 1t. Honest industry never comes
IN for any part of the spoils in that scram-
BILE which takes place when the currency
of the country is disordered. Did wild
schemes or projects ever benefit the indus
triousa Did iEredeemable bank paper ever
enrich the laboriousi Did violent fuc.us-
tions ever do good to him who depends on
his daily labor for his daily breadl Ger
tsinly never.
1t is said that Duke Ernst Of Saxe-Co
burg Gotha, who died Wednesday, held
very little communication with his sister
in-law, Queen Victoria, for many years
past, having been annoyed after Prince Al
be,t's death because Her Majesty did not
consult him about political and family
matters, and constitute him her confidsn-
tial adviser. The Duke was sleo much
irritated by several passages In Sir Theo-
dore Martins "Life of the Prince CoRsort,"
and considerably resented the fact that he
does not himself agure prominently in that
work. The Duke obiscted very strongly
to Princess Louise's marriage with the
Marquis of Lorne, and was still more in
djgnant when tha Queen allowed Princess
Beatrice to marry Primes Henry of Batten-
berg. Duke Ernst had utterly ignored the
existence of the Emperor William for sew
eral years past. He kept away from Ber
lin, and carefully absented himself from
his own dominions whenever his imperial
grand nephew YVES in the neighborhood.
He bitterly resented Prince Blsmsrk's dis
missal, which made complete breach be-
tween himself and the empsror, and they
never met since.