Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-26

pied to manufacturing ireland would have
great future as manufacturing country
but so long she is Obliged TO import coal
Tor power she cannot compete with Eng
i.'nd and other more favored countries
AS II is, she must depend upon farming
and hand weaving for support and these
are not sufficient"
Mr.. Dougherty. il will he seen. believes
that lreiand's troubles lie deeper than pass
ing crop failures And in addition ali the
evidence goes to show that the potato crop
IN ma: OF the southern and western coun-
u.s has been a failure and that the sup
plies VIII be exhausted before the new
year.
lmpecunious Royalty
Impecunious royalty is not a cheerful
Spectacle. All England is wondering what
will become Of his highness Francis Paul
Charles Louis Alexander. Duke of Teck
G.C.B., G.C.N.o.. now that his coed wife has
passed away. The Tecks have always had
hard shedding, though they are parents of
the wife of a future king OF England,
the Duke of York. and at one time the
baiiihs had actually taken possession of
their house for debt and We're prepared
10 sell them out had not the royal family
come TO their aid. The duke himself is
practically destitute. having nothing hut
his pay IS ar officer of the British army
and before his marriage lived a hand-to-
li.puIh existence from one barrack ~ an
other. Government made the duchess an
allowance of five thousand pounds a wear
on which the family eked out a living that
considering their position. was shabby gem
tel- Now Teck is worse OF than ever
since he has 4 big establishment White
Lodge. on his hands. the keep OF which
VIII come 10 more than his stipend as an
ornamental soldier. And royalty can
plunge into debt but il cannot sell out like
common citizens, and there is a limit TO
the patience of creditors, even when the
duns are addressed to titles
senator WoIcott's Mission.
1t should be glory enough for an Amer
lean citizen TO have rocked th,, Rank Of
England on its foundations and almost
captured the Gibraltar Of the British gov
ernment. the cabinet, but Senator wolcott
pears defeat with poor grace. The
world has been surprised that the Colo
rafo senator made so good a FIST as he did
at diplomacy in behalf of hopeless cause.
Tor no one expected TO see him succeed
when he started to win Europe to bimetal-
hsm, and much more experienced ,inlo-
mats would have been turned back by the
size OF the job. Senator Wolcott. however
mas been sanPuine from the start and
now that his scheme has been formally en-
tombed he has taken to brooding over the
corpse ana secs ccnspiracies and other
posies IN the air instead of being satisfied
with the laurels he has wen The senator
apparently would not make a good poker
prayer. because his manner has been
perfect index to the cards he held through
out this game of finance No man i'm on
don was more willing to meet the news
paper men and discuss his plans with
them. so FAR as diplomatic ethics would
per permit. when things were coming his way.
put when the tide turned against him ne
became utterly invisible. and he Spent a
fortnight lodging the Londcn reporters.
when the success Of his mission seemed
promising, as il was before the Thund.r..r
and the bankers became aroused tbn
American correspondents in London said
so. and when the wind yeered TO another
quarter they wrote the facts with equal
cahdor. as duty compelled them TO do. The
senator met the correspondent of a New
York paper who had pursued this course
just before the English cabinet gave its
verdict.
Besieged by Reporters.
4 see you have turned against me Also"
he said. mournfully. with an ct TIA Brute
ar. But" he added, Il suppose you were
ordered to write that way"
On the day the blow fell Senator VOL
cctt's course from his hotel to the Ameri-
can embassy was like that of a half back
down the field through the Whol. opposing
eleven. He strutted out from his lodgings
chewing the cGd Of melancholy early in
the morning. Half way down the block
he spied an approaching reporter and then
re lodged into cab like a tex diving 10
Its burrow. The reporter we'd his UNI
brclla and the innocent cabAy. thinking his
pulled No the horse on its launches
Il can't tell you anything, 1 can't tell
you anything the senator shouted franti-
cally, meantime humping the roof with his
stick for the vehicle to move on.
But i want 20 tell you something" the
reporter attempted to explain. Haven't a
minute. Must be at the embassy AT noon.
Not minutcr' yelled the statesmen. and.
though the embassy was a fiye-minute
drive and IL lacked half hour of noon he
Ealfcoed eff.
When he emerged from his conference
with Col. Hay. an hour later there was a
rush line of reporters massed IN the wait
ing room. but Senator Wolcott broke
through the line literally on the run. and
reached his cab without being tackled be-
fore the team could catch its breath. They
would call him on the turf a hard loser
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