New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-17
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(copyrfght 1898; By The Tribune
London. Nov ls-Events are moving rapidly IN
the East Squadrons sailing under six fasS
for Turkish waters where a combined naval
demonstration will be made unless the Porto
comes to its senses and promises to carry out the
reforms which have been demanded. Every day
brings a fresh tale of massacre from some quar-.
ter OF the Sultan's dOmini0ns but IL Is imposslo Die
to decide whether the stories are true or false.
What seems more probable than anything else 10
that the Sultan. even II he desires to do 90. cam
not now succeed In suppressing the series ~ for
midable revolts which have broken out. Appar-
emily he is trying to summon his generals, to
raise money. TO get the best advice and restore
his authority, but the thirst for blood has been
excited and discomfort has bred anarchy, until
his subjects may have passed beyond his control.
Every favorite tricks him and traffics with his
fears 1t is now doubtful whether he can do more
than change Grand Viziers again and make PROM
ises which cannot be fulfilled. If the small Balk-
an States were more ambitious the smallest
spark might kinde coniagration any day.
The most hopeful sign il the hearty accord ex-
listing among the Powers 1t is evident that there
Is definite understanding on AT least three
points: First, that no Government shall act
separately; secondly. that he six Powers shall
stand together at every stage thirdly, that every
one shall send a strong fleet to cruise in the
Aegean Sea: otherwise, the diplomacy Of the
Eastern question is a game Of blind mans buT.
with every players eyes bandaged.
The Queen has returned to Windsor. 10 be In
closer touch with her Ministers in this crisis. Sir
Philip Currie will leave England on Monday. after
receiving instructions from the meeting OF the
Cabinet held to-day. and he will probably bs
armed with greater powers than he has previous
~ exercised in Constantinople.
officers and men will also start for the Gold
Coast to-day. answer 10 British demands
having been received from the King of Ashantee.
TIE work Of equippng this expedition Is Lord
Wolseey's first service Commandern- Chief.
and as he once led victorious column across
the country he ought TO know what is wanted.
The column is weak in numbers-barely four
teen hundred men-that 1t is probable
serious camr aign with the chief Of Coomassie
Is not Intended but only a reconnaissance In
force Sir Francis Scott. we'll seasoned SOL
dier. will command the expedition.
The payment OF an indemnity OF 10000 for
the murder OF the trader Stokes. will not mark
the end Of the Congo outrage. Something more
than blood money has been demanded. The Con-
90 state will be required to put Captain Lotaare
on trial for murder before II can bs released from
responsibility for the atrocious crime.
Rumors Of war and naval preparation increase
the feeling of public impatence with the con-
duct Of the masters in the lockout in the ship
building trade. The Belfast and Clyde employers
are considered to be acting with singularly bad
judgment, and a settlement Of the dispute is
earnestly desired. Other nations are profting by
the enforced Idleness Of the British shipyards.
Germany has secured contract for torpedo
boats from Norway which would have gone to
the Clyde builders. and large Italian order
for fifteen vessels and much work for Japan may
also be lost. There is 4 general outcry for arbi
tratiOn, but on the Clyde there can be nothing
to arbitrate, because there is no dispute between
masters and men: work has been stopped there
bcause the Belfast masters had q wage quarrel
with few engineers and demanded sympa-
thetc lockout under their agreement with the
Clyde masters.
Mr. Bayard has received from Dundee the ex-
ceptional honor Of the presentation Of the free
dom If the city. He opened the exhibition OF fine
arts with address I'm excellent taste. but in
subsequent speech before the Chamber of Com
merce he followed the lines of his Edinburgh free
trade TRADE. The jute merchants could have told
him something about competition from the pau
per labor Of India. which Is now menacng their
great industry with ruin and inducing them to be-
leve that Americans have not been far out Of
the way in protecting their workers against Eu-
ropean labor. and he could have Informed them
that the American free trade party which ne
represents had left S5 per cent duty on their
manufactures But these condolences not
exchanged. since Dundee meant to honor a great
Nation by paying a handsome compliment to its
Ambassador. II was unfortunate that he should
have seized the occasion for rebuking by implica
ton that nation for It's protection "heresies.'
Mr. Bayard is liked in England, and honors are
showered upon him wherever he goes but British
ambassadors never talk economies when they are
/ abroad: much less do they condemn the fiscal
system actually in force in their own country:
and in this respect Mr. Bayard might with pro-
prety be as English they are.
Senator Lodges last week In London has been
pleasantly spent. his time being fully taken up
with social engagements. While he Is known.
Ike Mr. Depew. TO be vigorous exponent OF
American ideas of diplomacy and government.
and he's frankly expressed his views, yet ne has
not made himself socially impossible. tee phrase
runs On the contrary. he has received much at
tention in London. has Been invited TO many
! houses and has been liked wherever he has been
seen in his true light, as man OF true American
feeling. The Chronicle" has published an ex-
cellent interview with him on the Monroe Doc
! trine and the Venezuela question. but evident
! ly the editor frightened by II, because ne
employed Mr. w T. Stead to follow II up with
! counterstatement OF British rights. THE enron
| icle's' alarm was needless, the Senator's re-
marks simply involved a lucid and dignined re-
! statement OF the original Monroe Message not as
a proposition Of international law, but as an
American principle and the declaration OF a pohey
! OF vital Importance to the country lie was now
ever outspoken In yegard to Venezuela, assert
! ing that while the United States has nothing 10
do with any question OF reparation for injuries
suffered by British subjects 1t cannot allow new
territory 20 be acquired by European Power