The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-01
For Twelve Days He Has Stood
Off a Demand for What Was
Within Treaty Rights.
ENGLAND VERY SLOW TO ACT.
Administrative Tyranny in Germany
Said to Be Causing Crisis to Be
Near in That Nation.
copyright, 1895, by the New York Times]
TFrom the Nesc York Herald.J

LONDON, ENG. Nov. 3o.-That the Sui
tan would be allowed to stand out for
twelve days against demand by the
united European powers for something
clearly within their treaty rights, if those
powers were honestly united, could not be
credited by even the tabled horse marine.
English opinion has, therefore, under the
influence of this spectacle, come round with
practical unanimity to the conclusion that
no genuine European concert exists. No
doubt the Sultan sooner or later will find
it necessary to grant the firmans for addi-
tional guard ships, which he has been
withholding since November 19, if the
powers continue their apparently formal
insistence on the thing, but the mere fact
that this delay is permitted shows con-
clusively that there are differences of
opinion among the ambassadors as to the
urgency of the demand and the propriety
of enforcing it by prompt action.
= The whole history of the Eastern oues-
ton resolves itself into chronicle of
similar differences, expressed now by years
of diplomatic intrigue, now by war. In
the present. recurrence of this ancient
crisis England until now has tried to
nourish the belief. that by some miracle
the European powers would waive history,
forget traditions and join hands in a
genuine altruistic effort to secure general
peace through q common agreement upon
the requirements of the situation, but this
faith has been fading away for weeks, and
it has gone. altogether now. It is recog-
nized that if any kind of specific settle
ment is to be for time patched up it will
not be on the merits of the case, but by
virtue of hard bargains.
The service clubs tonight are full of the
idea that England will take independent
action in day or two if the thing con-
tinues to hang fire, but this is based on
sentiment fancy rather than on informa-
tion. The whole outlook has become yery
grave and only slow, cautious steps are
likely to be taken by the Foreign Office.
People say that the imbroglio probably
will hang on till spring, which would open
the prospect of winter filled with uncer.
tainty and apprehension intolerable to
think of.
Private letters from Berlin greatly
accentuate the alarm which the German
press Is raising about the international
state of the empire. Things are described
as drifting rapidly toward trouble and an
end which no one foresees. The Emperor
is said to have become inaccessible to all
who have reputation for prudence and to
be quite in the hands of group of favor.
ties, headed by the Eulenburg family, who
fill him with notions that the time has
passed for compromises and gentle
measures and that he Is confronting a
crisis which must be met with the firm
hand of an autocrat.
Since the sensational police descent on
the houses of four Socialist members of
the Reichstag, seventeen clubs, committee
rooms and newspaper Offices, and the
seizure of papers of all sorts early Monday
morning, under the law OF 1850, no rumor
of impending administrative tyranny has
been too wild or excited to obtain credence.
The sentence for four months of DR.. Fos-
ter, whose paper, Ethical Culture, ven-
tured the mild suggestion that the Kalser's
speech, calling the socialists "a traitorous
rabble." was not the wisest way Of dealing