New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-03

thority had been fatally impaired by the death
OF Canovas Sagasta is pledged to grant home
rule to Cuba: but how can he hope to carry out
that policy when autonomy Will come az be-
lated gift from exhausted and desperate
monarchy? or with what reason can he expect
the present Chamber to support him IN eieVeh'h-
hour measures of justice and common-sehse
which have been stubbornly refused for gen.
GRAFTON by Spanish legislators? Sagasta cannot
remain long In power without general election;
and Cuban autonomy. or, rather, some trans
parent compromise between self-governmeht
and Independence Is the last question on which
he will care to go to the country Ex-Ministcr
Hannis Taylor reticent to the last or Spanish
affairs sails by the American liner to-day.
The second crisis was in Athens. where the
Chambers angrily turned the Rail- Ministry out
Of office because the German Emperor had
helped the bondholder to get his full pound OF
flesh. and because Lord Salisbury had failed to
induce the Powers to guarantee the indemnity
loan which the Greeks unable to raise them
selves. Peace must be accepted In the end with
European control the finances; but neither
Delyannis nor any other leader desires to iden
tify himself with policy which will be sullenly
resented by the Greeks The Powers. under the
German Emperors leadership. lave left Greece
at the mercy of some banking syndicate. which
will largely increase the cost Of redeeming Thes-
sally from Turkish rule. They have also pro-
longed indefinitely the period Of Turkish intrigue
in Crete. where the Sultan considers himself
strong enough to defy the Concert of the Weak
nesses.
The restoration of peace the Indian from
tier being merely question Of time. notwith-
standing the severe fighting reported in this
mornings dispatches the English people have
leisure for revivng their interest in domestic
politics. The great increase Of the Liberal ma
jority in the East Denbgh election has I'M
Led new zest 10 political oratory on that
side Lord Rosebery is silent. but Sir Wemyss
Reid, in to-day's Speaker" vaguely points to
his return to the leadership. sir William Yer
non Harcourt has gone to the Continent TO
consult specialist about his eyes, but Mr..
Asquith has found good phrase describing the
Liberal party as the trustee of great causes,
and Mr. Morley has delivered a powerful par
tisan attack upon Lord Sasbury's Eastern di-
plomacy perhaps too acrd in tone, but pusat-
ing with earnestness and conviction
More important than partisan indictment
OF policies which English people with cynical
indifference have tolerated and condoned is the
determined effort being made to bring to
an end the engineering lockout. which has
lasted thirteen weeks and is costing the trades
unions $4,000 a week in strike pay The pres
ident of the Board Of Trade has been consulted
by the leaders of both sides. and there is now
a fair prospect of a speedy conference of en-
ployers and federated trades and compromise |
on the basis of ffty-one working hours weekly
The Church Congress at Nottingham has
thrashed over old straw and raised the usual
controversial dust. The heartest speech was
made by Archbishop Temple, who described
himself a workingman's son, brought up J
with patched clothes and trained to follow the |
plough One of the best papers was read by |
Mr. Hay Aiken. we'll known i'll America as a
church missioner, the familiar theme Of
church unity More interesting than these bar
rem polemics is the confession made by THE |
Guardian" the great Church organ, that the
attempt to convert the Apostles Greed into |
a basis of religious instruction by the Board |
Of Schools of London has been a complete fail |
ure. The Bishop Of Rochester. now In America. |
was responsible for the proposal and the !
School Board elections will be held before he |
returns and has chance to protest against |
throwing over the Cred
The Maidstone epidemic of typhoid fever, with |
the appalling record of 100 cases in fort
night. is attributed TO a contaminated water |
supply. Inspectors have discovered the source |
of the disease in foul springs among the hop |
fields. and the dangerous supply has been or
dered TO be cut off, after an inexcusa bic delay.
Municipal government is not always perfect
In England. 1t is however. daring and progress
sve. The latest Glasgow idea of municpaliza-
ton Is TO have the town obtain entire control OF
the telephone service and to manage 1t as it does
the gas water. electric light and tramWays.
great reduction of telephone rates is promised
and also a margin of profit for the town treas
ury
large real estate agent in BeGravia is re-
sponsible for the statement that there is an ex-
tensive speculation in real estate going on In
that quarter of the West End, and that prices
are steadily rising in view of the certainty that
tie Prince of Wales Will live in buckingham
Palace when he comes TO the throne. The idea |
Is current that when the next reign opens the
sovereign will make that palace his permanent
residence and spend little time at Osborne.
Windsor and Bamoral. Consequently, specu-
lators are obtaining control of houses In that
quarter on the assumption that the world OF
wealth and fashion will gravitate toward IL
whenever the Prince Of Wales is King.
MASSACRE or An AFRICAN EXPEDITION.