The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-29


-Doesn't Care Snap About the Graeco-
Turkish Ouestion--What IL Rumpus Has
seen Created by Recent Decree OF the
Queen Concerning Life Peers.
Hotel Victoria, London, Aug. 80, 1897.
To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
This is the height of the dull season
in London. Everybody" is out or
town, though nine tenths of the resi-
dents of London are no more able to get
out of the town for the summer than
are nine tenths of the residents of New
York or New Haven. BY Everybody
is therefore ment the rich, the aristo-
CRATES; those whose names get into
newspapers, who haven't useful duties
to keep them at home and who have
plenty of money to take them wherever
they choose to go. Not that they are
bad people at all. Nevertheless if they
were obliged to stay in their city houses
for a few summers they might learn to
their poorer brethren, over whose heads
seasons come and go without change of
place or labor. All the fine houses
about Hyde Park are shut up tight;
just as are all the fine houses on Fifth
avenue. 1t seems an inhuman insult to
show rows and rows of unused palaces
to the poor and hungry who know not if
they are to be sheltered at night. Many
of the clubs are shut up. This would
seem to indicate desertion more COM
plete than ever befalls New York.
Many a New Yorker enjoys his clubs
more in summer than at any other
time for with his family packed away
in the country there is no one near to
With his latch key in his pocket he can
stay out just as late as he is able to use
it. Nor will his club friends betray
him; for they are all in the same boat.
All the large hotels are more than half
empty. You positively receive person
al attention and are decidedly more
than merelyto Mr. So-and- So. The shop
Keepers are actually polite and grateful
for slight purchases They will tell
you, one and all, that the jubilee did
them more harm than good; that Lon
don is vastly out of pocket for the show
hot ho 1,.,c.
BILE one. Most of the regular London
visitors We're frightened away by the
apprehended expense, and also because
regular visitors hate crowds and all
other Irregularities. House-holders
along the route of the procession made
a pile of money the day of the process
sion, but have been swearing at the
procession ever since. Trade was inter-
rupted and did not find it's way back to
it's accustomed channels before the sea-
son was over. The foreign notables
didn't buy blessed thing. The crowds
wisely away, enjoying themselves in
Paris and along the Rhine. So it seems
that there is a dark side to even a royal
jubilee. Entertaining crowned heads
cost the queen no end Of money, which
her loyal subjects were not able to re-
coup. England mourns. England is
also little troubled over it's Indian af-
fairs. The present affair Is of itself of
very small Importance Of no greater
Importance than if there should be a
stir out west among the Sioux and the
Apaches. But if just beyond the Sioux
strong as Russia and as hostile to the
United States as Russia is to the Eng
lish, then amy movement among the
Sioux would be regarded With appre-
hensioll. TO the northwest of British
India is AfghaniStan. Between the two
countries is a mountainous desert hOr-
der land claimed by neither, and scanti-
ly inha bited by semi-savage tribes.
England is slowly and Stealthily alb
SOEDlIlS tIlia ttitL VI NoulltiS. Lie
semi savage tribes are fighting for their
homes and their Independence. Should
the Anneer of Afghanistan support them
and Russia back up the Ameer then the
revolt might become serious. But the
.Alneer is afraid of England, and Russia
wishes to civilize Siberia before pene-
trating any further into Asia. So the
trouble will probably terminate with
The capture of a few of the semi-sav-
ages and the meeting out to them of
wholly savage punishments; such as
impaling, blowing from the mouths of
cannon, etc.,-forms of punishment
which the English have found very eff
cacious in their dealings with the ma
tives of India
As to the Graeco-Turkish question,
England doesn't care a snap of it's fin
gers. Political questions depend so en-
tirely upon commercial interests noW-a-
days that in every question you must
ask what is to be made out of it and
who is to be benefited. If the Turks
We're to conquer Greece and to annex
her territory down to the Gulf of Cor
NTH, including Attica, the exports of
English manufacturers to both Turkey
and Greece would not be affected. Eng
land to-day makes SO little money out
of either Turkey or Greece that the sum
ic of no inheritance To on IN war in