The morning call., 1893-10-01
HE MOVES SLOWLY
Gladstone Taking War in
His Own Way.
WILL FINISH THE PEERS.
But There Is Really No Good
Hurrying Over 1t.
RADICALS MUST HOLD BACK.
They Had Expected to Go Out and
Win a Victory in
Month.

cables the Times from London: Although
politicians have talked with Roman firm
ness about continuing the battle of the
parties in the country resolutely and at
once, and making the whole recess vibrate
with their oratory. nothing has come of
it. Outraged nature asserts itself in spite
OF their ard0r, for the people are tired
and they w.. not listen, so ii seems that
there is chance of having October de-
voted to the humanities and to amiabe
leisure with nothing more exciting than a
little pleasant chaff between the two
camps.
In the hush which has fallen upon parti-
san strife the only noise heard is the rat
tie of Gladstone's reel. AS the big House
of Lords fish flashes spiritedly away into
the open waters the radical onlookers are
at no pains to conceal feeling that the
Grand Old Angler is letting out too much
line and playing the rod far too gently.
They had hoped for sharp. immediate
tussle, and, by faith, could almost feel their
hands on the gills of the peerage.
But Gladstone was always conservative
and always keeD.to do things in his own
way. He thinks 1t better to go SOFTLY His
speech in Midlothian came as a distinct
wet blanket to those earnest captains who
were for marching out and smashing the
Upper House forthwith. l. has dampened
the radical powder right and left like sea
mist
The Liberal Federated Association had
issued fam boyant fighting appeal to the
party, but GladStone's speech took all the
stiffening out of it. and an accident by
which the print shortened the last two
words of the signature to Federal Asso-
citation" imported into the thing an ele-
ment of the ridiculous. which the oppo-
nents were not slow to jump at
Under these depressing yet amusing
conditions the great advertised battle with
hereditary privilege stands adjourned till
Noyen Der.
On Monday coal will be S11 a ton in
London, and it is expected that by the end
Cg ths w en- INC pties Viii Fei-vs, va,
even more. Taking all the stores of tn g
metropolis into account, it is said there is
less than one full days supply on hand,
and even if al the Midland mines. which
IL is hoped vial reopen on Monday. should
do so transit will be so slow that the
scarcity will last for another month.
This is what Londouers principally
know about the greatest labor conflict of
history, and they don't like If. There are
whole huge sections of England densely
populated, and of more national impOr-
tance than London, where the price of
household fuel seems paltry matter in
com parison with other results OF this ter
ribe deadlock. 1t is estimated that at least
100000 wage-earners are now affected,
and about so per cent of this number are
out Of work.
So colossal has the calamity grown that
figures lose tieir ordinary meaning to the
mind. In the little town of Castleford
alone there are 10000 people without
money for meal among them, and the
charities thus lar organized only go to the
length of protiding them with soup and
bread every o1er day.
Though 600 board-school children are
getting breakfasts daily at Normanton, the
various churcbs have combined to pro-
vide 400 clildnn with two meals daily.
These are tut Two samples out Of hun
dreds of tases,l the accounts of which
crowd the newspapers. There must be at
the 10 west suess 25O, 900 men. women and
children co,neetpi with the mines who
are. in a safe If semi-starvaton, while
everv day Eases lare reported of actual
deaths fromnung,r.
Alongside his one may put the action OF
the Leeds msgistrites on Wednesday. who
sent two MIXERS With hungry families at
home to prism fos month for killing a
rabbit.
| But dreadf as tie distress among the
locked-out att stirling colliers is, the lat
ter are far obrshacpwed in numbers by
The operativs in ,ther industries now
thrown out oiwork by the closing of mills.
furnaces. factries and railway shops.
The eeneraloaralyIs of manufacturing
Is costing the Ountry more millions weekly
than any one dares think Of 1t is COM
monplace to sly that nothing like such
misery and disster hal ever been known
before in Engand. There is DO parallel
for it anywhee, sava perhaps in some
peculiarly savige and widespread phase
of devastation by war.
Just AS In Anerica sir weeks ago, 1t be-
came clear atht Congress- had to do
something tdestricate ,he country from
an mpossiblectrreney position, so here 1t
| is seen now that Parliament cannot be
allowed to peImt this wsnton and wicked
outrage on tle whole community to be
wrought agaiI.
The air Is alive with projects of Govern
ment lnterfereref, but the opinion tends
toward the creatbn of Nit lister of Mines
as int the Austrian colonies and of the
organization OF u the c0llieries into sort !
Tpf gigantic trustfegulated BY the Govern
ment on the principle that national
interests In te whole matter are
paramount. II be present Parliament
ian get round any legislation on the
snbject 1t will prdably be Id the direction
4 limiting owner4of royalties to profits.
whereas royalties hre now levied on the |
Iroduct irrespectit of the state OF prices, |
apd also defining the minimum below
Which the wages othe miners cannot be |
cat.