The morning call., 1893-11-19
BOTH WITTY AND CLEVER.
Destiny Points to Him as the
Successor of Gladstone.
HOW HE SETTLED THE STRIKE.
Knocking British MuIishness Out of
the Heads of Both of the
Contending Parties.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S-Harold Frederic
cables the Times from London: Every
paper throughout England to-day, one
may be sure, has given its foremost edi-
torial place to the termination Of the great
sixteen weeks coal war. 1t has been by
far the worst and costliest industrial con-
fict ever known here, and its conclusion
is greeted quite like the coming of peace at
the end of campaign in actual warfare.
The price of coal during the present week
has touched its highest modern point. AZ
shillings, which means to the poor. buying
very small quantities. about SIC ton.
Prices will descend next week with rush.
factories and mills will reopen. full rail-
way service will be resumed. and work
aday England will buckle down to the task
of making up the round $50. 900. 600 she has
lost by this protracted foollshness.
The fact that the Government intended
to intervene was printed In these dis
patches q week ago, before 1t was known
in any quarter of the English press. The
action is recognized on all sides to have
been extremely clever politically, and
moreover most delicately well timed.
Nothing really remained to separate the
two contending sides but pure British
mulishnesS, which sullenly dug its heels
in the ground and determined not to yield
first whatever happened. The fact that
the whole nation has been crying SHANE"
for two months seemed to make them all
the more obstinate.
For such situation there was only one
solvent 1t was to convene both parties
at the round table under the presidency
OF nobleman of sufficient prestige and
personal popularity and force Of charac-
ter to knock their heads together. Rosen-
berry is the ideal man for such a job,
adding to wealth. birth aad lofty official
position great mental acuteness and
f1uency of ideas and tongue, and
humor of uncommon brilliancy for this
solemn island. He did the trick in a
single afternoon. 1t is true that
the terms OF the settlement were not spe-
cially different from those the antagonists
had been within an ace of arranging for
themselves half a dozen times during the
autumn. and were only stopped from ar
ranging by petty amour propre. Ali the
same. 1t is big bright feather in Rose
bery's cap. That the actual settlement
was reached promptly under him more
than ever marks him as the coming man
on the Liberal side.
The logic OF events draws Russia newt
ably toward the support of French claims
In Egypt, and makes either that or the
settlement of Franco-Russian encroach-
meDts upon British preserves a practical
certainty in the near future. 1t is there
fore a peculiarly disastrous blow which
takes Morier away from st. Petersburg
and leaves Constantinople empty at such
a time; but unless Rosebery is strong
enough to assert himself against the eti-
quetfe OF the Foreign Office there threat
ems an even worse disaster. According to
the sacred civil service rules two diplo-
matte seniors ought to be promoted from
other posts to these big prize embassies,
but with the exception of Lord Cromer,
whom 1t would be crime to remove from
Cairo, all these available seniors happen
to be buffers. and the presence of a second
rate man ct either post now might cost
England terrible prce