New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-18
possibility Of being dsavowed by Mr. Gladstone
and the Ministry, If the agitation fails.

possibility of being disavowed by Mr.. Gladstone
and the Ministry. If the agitation fails
The London County Council has taken hand
in the game against the House of Lords, passing
a resolution by IS to 81 urging the House OF
Commons to disagree with all the Lords amend
,nen,s IN the Parish Councils bill. The Lords
gave them a good excuse by trying 10 restore
the London vestres The London Reform IN
ion held a crowded meeting to the same end IN
ST. Jamess Hall. under the lead of such moder-
ate politicians Sir Wilfrd Lawson. MT.
Cremer Mr. Labouchere. Mr. James Stuart ana
Alderman Ben Tett The latter described the
House of Lords House Of Peers. Prlgs ana
Privileges Mr. Davitt calls the House den
of land thieves" 1.-THE Chronicle keeps a heao-
line standing, Peers or People. And TINS an
ti;hetcal ALTERATION doubtless does good service.
The whole contest turns upon the cohJuhc'ioh'
upon the question whether 1t should be feers
or People," or Peers and People. To that
question the present agitation ought 10 supply
an answer.
Meantime, the contest between the Loros anu
Commons over the Employers Liability bill ana
the Parish Councils bill is being fought OUT.
The result of the first may we'll enough nave
given the Ministry pause. The majority pS
which they carried their proposed substitute Ior
IOr
The majority by which they disagreed with the
Lords amendment was twenty-five. Neither Is
a majority to go to the country with 1t IS ldle
to denource the House Of Lords as tyrahhca'
when half the House of Commons less tWo' Vi
half loss twenty-two agree with the Lords.
II matters had stopped there, the agitation
would have fallen stillborn But the spirits
both of the Ministry and of their Radlcal 'ai'
revived when the Parish Councils bill came on
They smote the Lords hip and thigh Inc
amendments were swept away by ma)oriueS
ranging from AZ to. 100. On some Of them there
was no division. The Liberal Unionists de-
serted their allies. Mr.. Balfour almost turned
his back on Lord Salisbury. The Conservatives
in the House Of Commons could not be brought
to the scratch, or could not be kept there. King
Salisbury cry the RAIDS, Is dethroned! But po"-
ticians in a state of exultation are apt to COM
nit mistakes They exult too much the couh-
try may ask, If Lord Salisbury can be dethroned
or the Peers checkmated so easily as this. why
turn the Constitution upside down to abolish
them?
London is acquiring an unpleasant notoriety
"a the HEADQUARTERS Of militant Anarchists. The
fact that Henry the author of the Cafe Ter
minus explosion had lately arrived from Lon
dom has turned French eyes thither. So
called telegram from London to Paris paper
not known to have a correspondent here COM
plains of the incredible tolerance" Of the Cahi-
net toward Anarchists of all countries. For
Cabinet read Mr.. Asquith. The Home SecTe-
tary is himself directly responsible for pubic
order His inaction has been discussed lie
has again been asked in the House Of Commons
why ne allows Tower Hill Williams TO preach
assassination. His answer is the same as be-
fore: Williams is beneath notice. 1t seems
hut 2 10 hpl as
strongly by The most experienced and acute
criminal lawyer in London as by Mr. Asquith.
Both think it will do more harm to prosecute
Williams than to let him alone.
Both opinions however We're expressed before
the Anarchist Of Greenwich Park blew himself
to pieces, and before 1t became known that the
London police have for long time watched the
club Of which this man was member They
watched it and did no more. The Anarchists
took the alarm. and bolted Bourdn is supposed
to have been trying TO get away with explosives
or perhaps meant to hav, wrecked Greenwich
Observatory. Nobody knows. Theories are
plentiful But Bourdin and the Autonome CLUB
are a curious comment on Mr.. Asquith's system
Of letting criminals alone lest prosecution make
them notorious. Mr.. Asquith is an able man,
possibly somewhat deficient in experience and
knowledge of the world The London police,
whom he praises are fine fellows but the de-
tectiye branch of the service has always been
thought weakest.
So long as London remains merely the rem
devious Of assassins plying their trade abroad,
the English looked on philosophically. They re-
GREETED 1t; but is not England the asylum Of the
oppressed? A few object lessons might in
duce them to cooperate with Continental au-
thorities in stamping out scoundrels who war on
society everywhere Bourdin has woke up the
police, who now apprehend that outrages are 10
be attempted in London itself.
Nor does Mr.. Asquith himself act quite con-
sistently on his ant-notorety theory. He Is
prosecuting lunatic, who threatened the Queen
This man is surely not more dangerous than he
who pilots gangs of ruffians about London, points
out the houses where plumber may be expected
and advises them to hang the Duke OF West
minister to a lamppost. like Foulon, with q
u bunch Of grass in his mouth.
News has arrived from South Africa that Sill
Henry Loeb ard Mr. Rhodes have come &c
terms about Matabeleland, and that Lobengula
is probably dead. Poor Lo Benz" signs out one
English champion of one of the most blood
thirsty savages who ever lived Another
champion, Mr.. Labouchere. has been neatly re-
buked in the House by the Colonial Under Sec
rotary for quoting from the Pretoria press
charges against English troops Of cruelty Il
the Matabee wounded and emitting to quote
from the same paper evidence OF their false.
hood. This" said Mr.. Buxton. was no doubt
an exercise Of editorial discretion" Mr.. La.
bouchere sat silent. The report that he Is tC
pronounce euogy in the House on Lobengula
Is probably incorrect.
Paris has had three sensations during the week
The Anarchists provided the first. The explosion
In the Cafe Terminus at first attributed to per.
sonal motives, is now known TO have been pure}y
Anarchist. Henry. the perpetrator. admits it.
He does not own that revenge for the execution
Of valiant prompted him. He does not think
highly Of Valiant. nor even Of himself. Both
were foolish enough to be caught and neither
accomplished his object fully. Better men are &c
come after them. thinks Henry. There will be