The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
CONDITIONS I'm IRELAND AS SERIOUS
AS THEY ARE In
INDIA.
INTERESTED IN AMERICA
EASTERN QUESTION ovERsHADOW-
ED FOR THE TIME BEING LIN
LONDON.
BLOW FOR B1mErALL1o THEORY
Standard Argument Upset by the
Rise of Wheat and the Accom-
Danying Fall of Silver.

LONDON, Oct. 31.-Wheat and cur
rency questions are still attracting
great attention here. The Spectator
this week publishes an interesting ar
ticle on the rise in wheat and is bear
ing upon protection and ,imetallism,
in the course Of which it says: 1.-The
rise in the price of bread is likely soon
to lead to unrest in the labor market.
The present activity in trade gives Ia
Dor organizations a favorable OPT or
tunity for pressing demands FOR higher
wages; but it remains to be seen how
far the recent improvement II trade
can be maintained if a material lise in
wages is insisted on. There are, end
less possibilities of friction, if the price
of bread becomes a serious question
We can only hope that the politicians
who are coquetting with the various
forms of protection will learn to digest
the lessons that will be expounded by
events. If the price of bread is ma
terially effected during the coming
winter. From financial point of view
the rise in cereals shows a strong case
for further large movements of gold
to the United States, while from a
political standpoint, whatever the re-
suit, shipments of gold from here are
still probable; in one case because the
panic and scramble for gold will make
Americans sell goods faster and pay
premium for the metal, and, on the
other, because revival of industrial
activity and return Of confidence
will attract British bullion.
Lastly, the rise in wheat and the
accompanying weakness of silver have
an instructive bearing upon economic
theory. Not only Bryan, but the Brit
ish bimetallists, also, are deprived of
one Of their most effective arguments"
Indian advices show that whether
rain falls or not, there must be keen
distress in the Northwest provinces and
in Dude, and the Indian government
must be prepared to succor the popu-
lation by at least forty millions of re-
lief operation, conducted according to
the SO-called famine code. Orders have
already been given to these officials to
prepare for an immediate enforcement
of famine measures
While famine is threatened in India
through drought, the West of Ireland is
declared to be face to face with famine
owing to heavy rains which have caus-
ed failure of the crops, especially, po-
tatoes. Throughout September and
during the beginning of October, there
was an almost inceSSant dOWnpour of
rain There have been great floods in
the Northwest of the island. Many
must feel the pangs of famine before
Christmas. The situation is compared
to that of 1879, when a disastrous har-
vest led to a revival of political dis
orders in. Ireland. However, the chief
secretary for Ireland, Gerald Balfour
during his recent tour Of the affected
districts, secured information which
will enable him to cope with the dis
tresS which he is now ready to meet.
James O'Connor, anti-Parnellite
member of parliament, who intends to
ask parliament to order an inquiry into
the lyman affair, bases his demand on
the past history Of a mysterious Mrs
Tyler, who he asserts, acted as med
ium between lyman and the British
police. 1t appears that when Sir George
Trevelyan was chief secretary for Ire
land, the Dublin police learned that
Mrs. Tyler offered bank notes to the
amount Of twenty pounds to a sport
ing man who was supposed to be a
Fenian to buy dynamite with which to
blow up the houses of parliament. The
! sporting man Informed the police of
the offer made to him, and the detec-
tives who afterward searched Mrs.
| Tyler's room, found, it is alleged a
| telegram addressed to her from the
| home office. The bank notes, it is fur
Their stated, were afterward sent to the
| treasury. Sir William Harcourt who
was then home secretary, is said to
have acknowledged that this story
would show that Mrs. Tyler was an
English police spy.
A letter has been received at the
London office of the Associated Press
from Harry Windt dated Fort st.
| Michael, Boring Sea, Aug. 20, in which
! he says:
| Il have safely crossed Alaska and am
now only 200 miles from Boring straits.
| L have been stuck here a month, but
| shall go on in a few days and hope to
be in Siberia by the end of September
| l nope, II all goes well, to reach va
koutsk by New Years and Paris early
| in the spring.
| Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of
! state for the colonies, was today elect
| ed lord recorder of Glasgow university.
The English newspapers have been
| commenting most cheerfully upon the
| Bismarck revelations in the Hamburg
| er Nachrichten, everything detrimental
! to Germany being hailed with the live
| Hest satisfaction and Prince Bismarck
is abused all around. The Speaker
says: prince Bismarck's last act is
in harmony with his general character.
| Rather than lose chance of striking
| those who supplanted him, he would
shatter the fabric of the German en-
! pre- He has shown them that the
German empire, while he was in power,
was guilty of the most heinous treason
| to an ally. There never was a more
colossal piece Of perf1dy."
The biggest boom in shipping since
! 1888 is now reported. Freight rates
have everywhere risen abnormally and
old vessels are changing hands at large
prices Ship building firms have re-
ceived orders for fourteen steamers ag-
gregating 10000 tons. The seamen
seem determined to seize upon the OPP
| portunity to demand an increase in
wages. w. H. Wilson, M P, says:
''The men now will not be satisfied with
sthe 10 per cent increase which they
previously asked. They now intend to
force wages up as far as they can.
The seamen are being asked to ballot
Immediately on the subject of an inter
| national strike and we believe the
| owners will Immediately concede an in
crease Of wages rather than miss
single voyage during the present
| BOOM"