The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-28
ARBITRATION IS FIRST
The American Plan Takes the
Place of the Russian.
MILLIONS ARE STARVING
fam'ne Again in the Land of the Gar
twenty Million People in Dis
tress-Aid as Usual Comes
Too Late.
) ARE STARVING
Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.

to The Hague peace conference and the
Anglo-American commission. The pa
| pers warmly approve of the union of
| the work of the American and British
sdelega tes at the conference and interest
in it is quickened by the prominence
Unexpectedly given to the arbitration
| question, especially in view of NJ De
Staars speech reversing the order of
| the points submitted from that of the
| circular of the Russian minister of for
eign affairs, Count Muravieff, giving
arbitration the first place and making
only minor reference to disarmament,
| which was at first blazoned as the
main purpose of the conference The
cars scheme, presented on Friday, is
very elaborate and detailed, while the
American project is attractive by it's
businesslike brevity and simplicity
| The Daily News correspondent at The
Hague says it appears to give a salts
| factory solution of the problem pre-
! sented by the car and that Great Brit
ain, of course, will support the Ameri-
can project. The scheme of Professor
| Martens. professor of international
law a the University of st. Petersburg
| and arbitrator of the Anglo Venezuelan
arbitration committee, is said to con-
| tain the code of procedure which will
be adopted by the Venezuelan arbitra-
tion tribunal at any rate. Three of the
five judges have decided to conduct the
trial under its rule when the tribunal
meets in Paris.
Referring to the proposal which the
American delegates are now pressing
to exempt all private property at sea
from capture, the Daily Chronicle re-
fleets the British view in saying:
The matter is grave AS many con-
tend, Great Britain yielded more than
was wise when she accepted even the
Paris rule However, the house of
commons has always declined to coun-
tenance any idea of withdrawal, and if
America will come in and sign the dec
laraticn, which she practically invoked
in the Spanish war, 1t will be mate
rial advance in the humanzing of war
and England might well raafIirm the
rule and absolutely bind herself in the
future
Interesting speeches were delivered
this week by Lord Rosebery, John Nor
ley and Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chan
celor of the eXchequer. The first
named. after a whimsical suggestion
that the speakers of the two parties
should change about for time, the
conservatives addressing liberals and
the liberals addressing conservatives,
thus enabling the public to hear both
sides, spoke on the exaggerated ad-
vantage of wealth." pointing out that
even millionaires could not eat more
than one dinner day. wear more
than one suit or ride more than
one horse at the same time, adding
that the only superiority that they pos
sessed over the poor was being able to
command the best medical advice and
change of climate, pointing out, how
ever, that hospitals for the poor had
lessened even this supposition. These
utterances brought forth a crop of sar
castle comments on the line of pity for
the poor millonaires.
The Daily News says: "The speech
leaves only one course open to a man
holding those convictions-to sell what
he owns and give to the poor. But
Lord Roseberry, we are confident, will
never adopt such a harsh measure. He
has too much feeling for the poor"
The Saturday Review speaks straight,
saying: From Lord Roseberry's lips
this kind of moralizing is downright,
unadulterated cant"
Mr.. Morley. criticising Lord Roseber
ry's position in the party, made a hap
py epigram, dubbing his lordship a
dark horse in a loose box" which Is
regarded as being a peculiarly apt de-
scription of Lord Roseberry's present
position.
Sir Michael Beach says he finds in
office ''weariness of political life," and,
speaking at Bristol, he expressed pref
erence for live opposition making
the novel suggestion that if the oppo-
sition does not win the next general
election the conservatives ought to play
their second term.
George w. Smalley, New York corre-
spondent of the London Times, is the
author of a letter this week upon the
iniquity of New York customs house
off oil nd
humorously on the subject The
Speaker says: 1t seems that there is
no remedy for the distress of the trav-
eler but gratuity, which, Collector
BidWell says, is not a bribe If he can
form a trust with unlimited funds upon
which the custom officials can be quar-
tered as pensioners, as all possible and
impossible veterans of the civil war
are quartered on the national purse
then ladies may be treated by the Off
Gals of the republic with almost as
much decency as if held for ransom by
brigands."
Particulars received regarding the
famine in Russia confirm the previous
narrowing accounts. The members of
the Russian aristocracy seem to have
at last awakened to a full sense of the
gravity of the situation and money is
beginning to flow in on all sides for the
relief of the starving moujiks Unfor-
tunately charity is almost always too
late.
The censor at first prevented the
truth from being published by the Rus
sian press. Now that the facts are al
lowed to appear, the famine specter is
stalking through the land. Some au-
thorltles estimate that as many as
900 people are starving. The Rev
Mf Francis, pastor of the British
American church at st. Petersburg
who did much to secure British and
American aid during the last famine
appeals to the British to-day He says
seven provinces, covering 10000 square
miles, are affected and that 5000, 600 |
people are famine-stricken and will |
need to be fed during the next three |
months He adds that the czar, czarina |
nd the RusSiaIl |