The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-01
THE CRE1ON CAUSE
Rumors That Salisbury
FaVors Granting Auton-
omy to the Island.
THE IRISH LAND BILL
Its Passage Not Seriously Threat
ened in the Lords Trades
Unionism in London.
THE IRISH LAND BILL

l7yesterday, at which, 1t is understood
that the Russo French proposal to es-
tablish blockade of the Island Of Crete
| was the subject under consideration. Sub
sequent to the Adjournment of the council
the opinion was expressed at the Foreign
fQfice hat Lord Salisbury was opposed
10 the adoption of ehe proposal for
blockade and would reply to the sugges-
tions that such course be taken by
Icounter proposals for the granting of au-
tonomy to the island
| The Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl
of Dunraven and the Earl of Winchilsea
took part IN yesterdays debate on the
Irish Land bill in the House of Lords,
and, although consenting that the meas
ure should go to its second reading, the
three peers threatened what they would
do When the bin Should have reached the
committee stage. Despite these threats,
however. the conviction prevails among
Ministerialists that the peers Will not
dare. to tamper seriously with the meas
ure.
! The Hon. A. J.. Balfour. First Lord OF
the Treasury and Conservative leader in
| the House of Commons. said to mem
Der IN the lobby Of the House last night
that he expected to go on a holiday to
| Whittingham, Scotland on the 18th in
stant.
Field Marshal Lord Wolseley. COM
mander-in-chief of the British forces, has
created sensation by statement made
to the Indian Military Commission on
Wednesday that he would not like TO put
Indian troops in front of European sol
diers, adding:-'T should not like to fight
Is--
other army with Indian troops" Military
officers now in England who have served
| in India declare that there is no ground
for General Lord Wolseley's remarks The
| Indian troops, they declare, are an ad-
mfrable fighting force equal in every way
| to the soldiery of Russia or any other
country. 1t is the consensus of opinion in
military circles that the commander-in-
chief was animated in making his state
ment by a feeling of jealousy towards
General Lord Roberts, whose high opin-
lon of the Indian soldiery is based upon
experience Field Marshal Lord Wolse-
ley's action has caused indignant protest
upon all sides and has naced him in evil
odor.
It would be a libel on the practical
| character of the powerful trades unions
| of Great Britain to associate li1elr an
nual congress with the International
Socialist gathering which concludes its
| dispatches in June last gave the first
warning that the organizers of the So
cialist Congress meant TO identify, if they
unions of the United Kingdom The
genuine annual Trades Union Congress
Is convened for September to debate
| interests, Socialists and Socialist doc
trines will have small part in it, What
ever of the Socialist spirit may be latent
n the leading British trades unions.
they are stin notably free from the
doctrinaire character of the European
unions. and at their congress last year
of the smaller societies succeeded at the
same time in eliminating most of the
Socialist element which found its largest
representation from those societies AL
though the Parliamentary Committee an
pointed by the Congress of 1895 took ma ri
in the preliminary arrangements of the
participation in the proceedings was next
to nothing. The pronounced Socialists,
members of the Socialist Democratic
Federation, and their comrades Of Hrs
Central Zurich Committee. obtained the
control and SO shaped the platform as
to identify British Trades Unionism in the
The deception. for deception it was. was
so complete as to cause some of the Eng
fish papers, and the chief Continental
organs, to treat the absorption of the
lofftiSii siWJFklitS Classes INTO Socialism.
as an almost definitely accomplished fact
According to the Temps" the two great |
parties in Parliament viii now dispute for
promises of Socialist legislation. The
same view pervades even we'll informed |
Continental papers. The Trades Unions |
which are represented at the Interna-
tional Congress are almost solely the |
minor societies. which have neither |
weight as organized political forces nor |
money. Their delegates are the sort Of |
rrrl,r l11xo i
Union Congress of 1895. Out of the |
twelve chairmen who presided on the /
platforms at the Hyde Park demonstra- /
tion On Sunday last nine We're mem
bers Of the Social Democratic Fedora
tion who had never been in touch with /
the great unions. That impotent, On
credited nonentity, the Independent La
Dor Party; the still more ridiculous n I
bian Society, the miserably feeble Dock
ers' Union, and the hopeless, helpless
Seamen's Union, with their dishonored
ed in the Congress as in the dernonstra-
ton To infer from the misuse made of
the trades union names, that they had I
predominant. or even any important part
Is entirely misleading. The Socialist party
as a political factor remains to the Eng
lish politician not only quantite neg
ligeable. but something he must continue
to disaYow.
The disgraceful proceedings that marked
the first two days sessions OF the Social
aninosity of the real workngmen against
these Socialists. whose principle, II mol
their sole labor Is dons With their mouths
seldom been seen in London, and tile eff
feet produced will surely cause Socialists
dscredit. It IS not believed that the
work of the congress will have any re-
suit whatever. beneficial or otherwise. be-
holiday in England and the English dele
gates an opportunity 70 see the sights OF