New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-17
ANXIETY, BUT NO PANIC
ADMIRABLE ATTITUDE OF THE RULERS o.
FRANCE TOWARD THE PLOT.
TIERS OF ANARCHY.
RETURN OF sIGNoR CRIsPI TO POWER IN yTA10
"A STRANGE SITUATION IN THE BRITISH
PARLIAMENT-NEEDs OF THE BRITISH
NAvY-THE WAR AGAINST TIN
HOUSE OF LORDS - SOUTH
AFRICA DISTRESS In ss
LONDoN-MR. DEPEw.
Try cABLe TO THR rRIBUNkD

(BY TO THK rRIBUNkD
Copy,tohi 1898: By The Tribune Assoefoese~ ~
London. Dec. 16-Europe has had an anxiou
week since the explosion in the Paiais bouroons
but neither in Paris nor elsewhere mas tners
been a panic There might well nave Peen =
manic. and a murdcrous struggle to escape from
the Chamber filled with the smoke OF an AM
archist bomb and the cries Of the wounded
It might have been but for the extraordinaSy
coolness of the President NJ Dupuy. and ~
calm statement that the sitting would coptinuA
His steadiness of nerve would have been r.
markable in an Englishman or an American or
q German In a Frenchman 1t was more ad-
mirabIe STILL and the effect Of 1t has been visible,
not only in the French Chamber, or In Para
but all over Europe.
Society perceves that the very principe q
legislative authority is challenged py the Ahas-
chists. when they select legislative cnamosE
as the most suitable scene Of murderous outrasS
The objects which valiant and his accomphcee
propose to themselves discussed at leisure n
every capital with the same tranquil determnse
ton which NJ. Dupuy showed In the presence
Of immediate danger There Will be no pa'ter
Ing with Anarchy, and no passion or precipitae
tion
NJ Casimir-Perier, new as he is to the bug
emergency and clear sighted. The bills no
brought forward the next day are suitable 70
the crisis the Press bill most Of all Nobody
likes to fetter the press but the gutter 5ourna1e
ism of Paris is. and has long been, menace 70
free institutions and danger TO the Hepupnc>
Liberty OF the press does not mean liberty - :
Incite to murder and there are henceforth to
he restrictions on that kind of liberty. The new
law which imposes them Is still very moderaW
law-tentative experimental, cautious-but u
does suffice to discourage the open preaching a
assassination.
What it does not touch, and what perhaps
no law could touch Is that kind OF Journalism
which daily occupies itself in sowing hatreds
between different classes Of society. There 10
Journalism Of that kind In London as well a.
in Paris. 1t stops far short Of advocating muir
der but II infames the spirit and passion OK
discomfort, which in others does presently iead
to murder and to what is called war on 90
ciety.
The law on associations was not less urgently
needed. II there were any doubt Of its neces-
stty the opposition Of a hundred Extreme RAN.
GALS led by NJ. Goblet, would prove It, The law
touches only associations for the purpose OF
preparing or committing crimes against per-
sons Of property. 1t is melancholy to see an exe
Prime Minister Of France opposing such law.
group are leaning on Socialists and Anarchista,
He opposed also the law for Furnishing the u
legal possession Of explosives Sometimes one
pretext serves sometimes another, but the true
source of Radical hostility Is to be found where
1t has always been found In France-their
readiness to ally themselves with the dangerous
classes. The Chamber passed all these biiis.
including the supplying about $4,000
to the police for use against Anarchy
by majorities averaging ten to one. ~
The Ministerial crisis in Italy has ruin curious
course and come to happy end. signor "a
rardelrs long struggle was foredoomed to failure
He could not find a Finance Minister. and In the
present condition of things a Finance minister
is more essential than Prime Minister. The
real service Signor Zanarde did was to con-
vince the King and country that Signor Crispi
was the necessary man to rule That eminent,
but sometimes adventurous, statesman has been
for three years in retirement. His immense pop
ularity had decayed His European reputation
had grown little dim. He was known as the
champion OF the Triple Alliance. the personal
friend Of Prince Bismarck. the advocate Of the
policy which made of Italy greater military
Power than her finances could support. There
was an idea that he must remain In retirement
till the finances had been restored. or till oome
great European crisis should summon him to
the front.
But the disorder in the finances had grown
steadily worse. and the crisis In Europe came
not. Yet Signor Crispi all at once Is nailed a.
the only possible savior Of the Kingdom from
confusion II not from bankruptcy. There 10 =
new Crispi say his friends. The spendthr1fe
Minister has become an economist The poll
tician who sacrificed so much to popularity -
prepared to impose one hundred millions Of rew
hto mt IN nd
the proof OF his sincerity is that the one italian
who inspires the financial public with confidence.
Signor Sornino, becomes Finance Minister undsr
him. italy. which a fortnight ago was IN dis-
tcess, II not in despair. has recovered hope ana
courage She Is ready to see expenditure re"
duced and fresh burdens imposed on pefnaW
the most heavily taxed people In Europe Sucn
is one of the wonders that can be wrought ~
a politician Of genius. -.
. "Onen war, is the phrase which the Glad
stonian organ uses to describe the present d.
vergence OF views between the Ministry ana the
Opposition touching the conduct OF public Dun.
ness 1t Is a phrase which does not teno g
peace and the situation Is such that ootn 70
Ministry and their opponents will be glad OF
respite from Parliamentary strife. But ~
respite seems possible. Ministers have TO took
far beyond the present moment and beyond NJ
House of Commons. They know that oeieD
they can carry their great contentious measuree
they will have to appeal to the country ana
there is little in the attitude Of the country juH
now to make Ministers sanguine ~
1t is not a season when political omens aN
usually numerous, but those which do occur
are not overfavorable. East Edinburgh passes
by a great majority a resolution OF conhdenco
in Mr. Wallace. the Gladstonian Member fos
that constituency. whose detection on the nins1
clause of the Home Rule bill and whose speeo9
against It did the Ministry much harm isss sune
mar brighton returned a Conservative Mem