The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-13
Precautions to Guard the Queens
Person On Her French Visit.
EVILS OF MONEY LENDING
BETTER CLASS OF JEWS DEsPISE
SHYLOCKS.
Goschen's Peroration On the Alterna-
tive of Peace or War-Marital
Troubles of the House of Hesse-
London Warship Syndicate
British Gossip.

London, March 12.-(Copyrighted, 1898,
by the Associated Press.)-The depar-
tGre of Queen Victoria for the south of
France has had an effect upon the po-
liticaI and commercial world, as it is
reasonably assumed that she would not
leave the country unless the horizon
was clearer, which is commonly sup
posed to be the case. Club gossip has
il that when her majesty saw the
French ambassador. Baron de Courcel,
at Windsor, on Monday last, she eX-
pressed the hope that nothing would
interfere with her visit to the Riviera,
to which the ambassador is said to
have replied: 1T would be a miSfor-
tune for France, madame"
At Portsmouth the queen was seen
10 be looking well, though extra pre-
cautions were taken to secure her from
disturbance. The royal yacht on which
she slept was guarded by a chain of
picket boats. In addition, the royal
train was ordered to run at a speed of
only 90 miles an hour.
The recovery of the Marquis of Sails
bury from his recent illness is very
slow, indeed. He is only allowed to
reaC the most important papers; his
weakness is excessive, and no date has
been fixed for his going abroad, al
though Lady Salisbury goes to the
Riviera next week.
GOSCHEN'S PERORATION.
Mr.. Goschen's somewhat rhetorical
peroration on the alternative of peace
or war. the first lord of The admiralty
remarking:
IF peace shall again reign in our
centers of industry, and the maritime
instincts of the nation which calls itself
the mistress of the seas reaSSertS itself
then the nation may look forward with
confidence that if there is peace it will
be peace with honor; but if war, it
must be war crowned by victory" pro-
voked an animated gossip in the lobby;
but It was agreed that his remarks
have not specifically affected the pres
ent international situation, and his al
fusion to the mailed fist: I'VE pre-
fer to see the homecoming of our ships,
rather than their sending off, was re-
ceived with much laughter and cheers.
wARsHIP SYNDICATE.
The sentiment favoring war with
somebody, which prevails with the
man in the street" has attracted the
attention of the stock exchange specu-
lators, and the Bradford Observer re-
ports the formation of a syndicate to
build and speculate in warships. At
present the members of the syndicate
will confine their operations to cruis-
ers, gunboats and torpedo boats. The
sum of $500, 600 (S2, 500000) has already
been subscribed. and an order has been
placed on the Thames for a cruiser.
The enterprise really amounts to the
intervention of the middlemen between
the foreign powers and British ship
builders,
TROUBLES OF THE HESSE.
The domestic troubles of the grand
duke and grand duchess of Hesse have
eliminated in the separation of the
couple, and the Duke of SaXe-COburg
and Gotha (the Duke of Edinburg), ]
father of the grand duchess, is going to
CimieZ. in order to try, with the help
of Queen Victoria, to heal the troubles
in the grand ducal household, Emperor
Williams offer to intervene having
proved fruitless, the grand duchess de- !
claring that nothing on earth Will in !
duce her to return to her husband. The /
result has been to set on foot move !
ment to secure the succession of the
dukedom TO the grand dukes eldest sis |
ter, the Princess Louise Of Battenburg, (
an arrangement which is favored at |
Windsor. at st. Petersburg, and not /
much objected to at Berlin.
EVILS OF MONEY LENDING.
Sir George Lewis, the we'll known /
lawyer. before the llOQSt VI 0bliiiilOllS
committee inquiring into the evils of |
money lending on Thursday. con- !
demned the business in the strongest |
terms, saying it frequently costs the 4
victims 1000 per cent. He complained /
particularly of the transactions of such /
men as Sam Lewis. He said the bulk I
of them were Jews, and, being a jew"
he could say of his own knowledge /
that the Jewish community loathed /
and despised them, refused to allow !
them to hold any position in the Jew
ish ranks, and the Jewish rabbis
preached against them and their prac-
tees"
Referring to the Lord Neville-Spen-
Ger Clay scandal, Sir George Lewis said
sam Lewis had discounted e10O, 900 at
40 per cent. He added that the laws of
England all favored the money lend
ers: said that in Germany the usury
laws worked for them, and added that
in America there was no usury at all.