The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-12
But She Is Not Sure That She
Will Give 1t.
SPAIN FULL OF FOREIGNERS.
They Took Refuge There When Other
Countries Became Too Hot to
Hold Them.

the next few weeks it is understood tina
there will be concerted wholesale arrests
of profeSsed and suspected anarchists in
the various capitals of w estern Europe.
Great pressure is being brought to bear
on the English Foreign Office to join this
crusade and draw the dragnet through
Soho and other revolutionary hiding quar-
ters in London, but thus far the Cabinet
has not decided that England ought to
take snch step.
This hesitation Is leading The semi-official
papers in France aud Spain into absurd
declarations that England. for her own
sinister purposes. is encouraging the
dynamite propaganda in countries OPP
posed to the triple alliance.
This standing nightmare OF divided
Europe colors even such broadly inter-
mental police speak of as "the black hand"
Andalusian police methods and the gen.
eral governing machinery in that province
are in such state Of medieval backward
ness that for the past few years anarchists
ana murderous cranks of all varieties, as
one civilized center after another got too
hot for them, have been flocking Into Spain.
Neither Madrid nor Barcelona contained
an appreciable foreign element decade
ago. Now they are full of little polyglot
cafes and semi public clubs where German
beer and Russian allash are durnk, and
Emma Goldman would feel herself as much
at home as Ravachol.
These evil guests have had most
vicious influence by inspiring and organic
ing latent Spanish ruff1anism, but it is
supposed that they would not have made
an active dynamite campaign in Spain had
il not been for the energetic fashion with
which Martinez Campos set to work to de-
tect and suppress them.
He became convinced that there was no
other Issue in our time half so important
as the crushing Of the anarchists, and he
not only stirred up the Spanish authorities
to unheard- of vigilance but strove to bring
about an International concert of action.
For doing this it has been decided to kill
him and tha shocking opera-house massacre
al Barcelona was planned because he had
announced that he would attend The opera
that evening 1t is believed that the man
who threw the bomb was an alien,
unacquainted with Campos' appearance.
who took it for granted that he
would be present, and an English mine
owner In Valiray who has just arrived in
London on a visit tells me that the public
is so convinced that the Marshal will be
assasinated sooner or later that wherever
he goes people hurry to the other side of
the street 30 as to be out of the way of a
possible explosion.
Information Is expected early next week
of decision in the Cabinet to take some
action with a view to ending the coal war.
which long since reached the point OF q
national calamity and is now frankly un-
endurable. All relief now being gener-
ously poured into Yorkshire and Lock
shire will not prevent the famine there
getting worse each week.
Correspondents on the spot describe the
condition of thousands in the West Riding
as freless. foodless, shoeless, naked and
the whole district as one seething mass of
misery.
The death-rate has gone up to something
dreadful, and what crushing blow this
long suspension has dealt industries of
every description can be guessed by the
fact that the seven principal railroads.
which are coal-rarriers, show diminutiOn
of receipts in the past seventeen weeks Of
an aggregate of $9.000,000.
Although every few days some mine
owner slips away from the feder alton and
opens his pits. the majority is fighting
desperately to keep the ranks solid. and
with only too much success.
1t is now proposed to form an owners
fund. out of which such weaker proprie-
tors as are losing heavy by idleness will be
recouped by others and bribed to keep
their pits closed.
AL N~olo kA.A -, &.
deliberate enlistment Of the gaunt specter
want against the men is nearly parallel in
infamy to poisoning wells, waters and
weapons of strife-an expression which
quote in order to indicate tine fierce pitch
of earnestness that the struggle has
reached.
Even II the lockout should collapse soon
there is no chance Of the price of coal to
the general consumer falling below ST be-
fore Christmas. The present increase of
100 per cent is playing most gruesome
havoc with all moderate incomes. and is
quite martyrizing the poorer classes.
One curious result is the existing stren-
uous economy Of household fires in Lou
don. Thus far we have had not single
fog, though usuallyI fog is ct its worst in
November.
The humiliation and disgust at the
machine-gun massacres of the Matabeles
are expressed more generally than ever,
but the attempt to bring the protest into
politics has not succeeded. The truth is
that Rhodes has the Home Government in
a cleft stick.
he has conquered Matabeleland and
annihilated Lo Begula off his own bat with
out imperial help. and made it clear that
any imperial attempt to intervene between
him and his quarry now will be met with
instant resolute defiance by the whole
group of South African colonies.
This would involve too much bother and
expense and SO the Radicals must swallow
their wrath and let the Ministery make
the best terms with him they can.
WERE ALL IN LEAGUE.