The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-03
PROSPECT FOR PLACE
SUDDEN CHANGE OF SENTIMENT IN
THE TEsANSVAAL QUESTION
STRIKES BRITONS
DOM PAUL HOLDS THE KEY
1t Is for Him to Say if There
Shall Be Peace or War-Mr. Cham
beriain Has Assumed "a More Con-
ence and Utterances Big Ship
ping Strike Is Threatened.
ing Strike Is Threatened.

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
= LONDON, Sept 2.-Judging from pres.
ent indications an altogether new phase
seems to have come over the TransvaaI
crisis. The tables have been turned, and
now it is Joseph Chamberlain, secretary
of state, for the colonies, who proposes
further conferences. In this and other
steps the government negotiations pre-
sent a more practical step than last
week, But with the bare exception of
these negotiations, everything points to
war. AS has been pointed out i'll these
dispatches whether higher powers than
Mr.. Chamberlain have interfered in the
interests Of pe~ce, or whether the sec,
rotary has taken a leaf out of the book
of Mr.. Kruger, and is working for pro-
crastination, can hardy be determined at
this moment.
The standing Of the Dutch In British
South Africa, as evfnced by the happen
inss Of the week, may have stayed the
mailed hand One, fact that is known
by none better than Mr.. Chamberlain s
followers is that the last British pro-
posal Is merely a peace offering that
precedes a sacrifice. Such steps as these
make war more righteous, and English
wars, though usually resulting In ag-
grandizement, must first be righteous to
be popular especially with the non-con-
formist conscience, and element, and Mr.
Chamberlain is not a despiser Of this
factor in home politics. The foreign sem
timent must also be propitfated.
The continental press, with few excep-
lions, recognizes the fairness Of the Eng
lish claims in the Transvaal, and Prest-
Cent Kruger knows he can expect no out
side aid, except, perhaps in the most in
direct way from Russia.
FRANCE WOULD FIGHT.
The spirit evinced yesterday by the
Journal of Paris certainly does not voice
the spirit Of France, which is usually
complacent over the English structures
prompted by the Dreyfus case. The Jour-
nal deplored the fact that in the event
of war between Great Britain and the
Transvaal internal disorganization pre-
vented France from attacking Great
Britain and avenging the Fashoda ilu-
initiation. All in all, putting the official
fermalities and secondary issues on one
side, the Transvaal question on the sur
face seems to be not greatly changed,
and the settlement still lies in President
Kruger's hands. Whether he completely
surrenders, openly defles or further
evades, time alone will show.
SAILORS STRIKE.
No man prides himself more upon the
greatness of the merchant marine than
does the British subject, yet strangely
CROUCH no one is Binder to events that
menace it's welfare This country Is ap-
parent1y on the eve OF u sailors and
fremens strike that will paralyze COM
merce, yet so far the matter has re-
ceived only passing 8hotice in the British
press and has attracted practically no
public interest, The trouble arose over
manifesto to the ship owners by the Sea-
mems and Firemen s)union, inviting them
to confer on tie question of fixing rate
for f1remen aid sailors on steamers OF
e6 and for sailors con sailing ships at
81 monthly, or a slight advance In the
average wages now paid in the British
ports. The ship owners utterly ignored
the union, with the result that the latter
has planned a strike at every port OF
the united kingdom, to commence next
Monday.
Joseph Havelock Wilson, M. p. For
Middlesborough, a Radical, but who was
elected more particularly as labor rep
Tesentative, has been addressing meetings
at Liverpool Bristol, Newcastle and
Glasgow. The stewards and cooks, 1T is
said, have Joined forces with the sea-