Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-14
MUCH OUT OF JOINT.
Times in England Like They
Are Everywhere.
WELsHMEN TALK OF SECESSION

While Laborcrs Propose to Adopt the
American Idea for ar, Odions Aristocrat
and Give Him Lynch's Judgment
Miners Getting Desperate and Danger
GUS Irish Sympathizers Encouraging
Talk of a Welsh Uprising.
LONDON, May l4.-The situation in Eng
land is one of extreme peril to the estab-
lished order of government Not for a
century has there been displayed such a
feeling ofdiscontent, a feeling accentuated
by the misery of daily strife for existence
and the fear of worse evils to follow. The
coal mi aaifiiculty, as all the world
knows, 81 unsettled, and the half
million Wage earners who derive their
daily bread from this industry, and who
have for over year suffered the privations
of an intermittent strike, are getting not
only desperate but dangerous. They
have for some time awaited the results of
an attempt to arbtrate differences by
what is called board of conciliation, Of
which Lord Shand is chairman.
Advocated yankee Methods"
The noble lord failed to give the col
liers the consideration they thought their
due at a recent meeting and he was fain to
escape by a back way TO avoid rough treat
ment. Indeed, some of the eXasperated
mob advised the procurement of a rope
and the employment of what are called
Yankee methods to feed fat their crudee
against the peer. That the economic
times are sadly out of joint is shown by
the fact that in London alone there have
been seventy suicides of unemployed peo-
pie within n week and that the police
courts are crowded with persons accused
of stealing food from pie or meat shops,
or who have obtained money or Valuables
through violence. Even this represents
but one phase of the complications con-
fronting the government.
Discstablishment in Wales.
The introduction of a bill for the discs
tablishment and disendowment of the
Episcopal church in Wales has caused the
most bitter feeling. Its authors and sup
porters are termed robbers and blasphem-
ers who aim at contiscation and spoilation.
Ii the measure becomes "A law it is to go
into effect Jan /, 1896. But its chances
considering the narrow majority OF the
Roseberry government, are problematical
Meanwhile, the Welsh have developed
some of the fierce independence of their
ancestors. They declare that the English
VINO come among them are base fellows,
fishmonGers and the like, and that their
insolence and domineering ways are not
to be borne. AT several public meetings
of late they have declared in favor of
autonomy and n republic.
Talk of Uprising.
There has even been some wild talk of
an armed uprising. and this has received
the open encouragement of Irish sympa-
thizers. The spirit of unrest and vague
revolt against existing conditions obtains
throughout the United Kingdom In
London people are starving. and in the
northern counties the potato growers can
not sell their surplus yield because there
is IA glut i'll the market" In addition
to all this another dockers' struggle Is
imminent, which viii imperil the ship
ping interests more than did the last great
strike of recent date. To pile up yet fur
ther the burden of apprehension the best
medical authorities declare that only su-
perhuman eXertions Will ward OF an epi-
demic visitation of cholera the present
summer.