New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-04
INTERVENTION.
-,--,vp,z ATToNAI. INTERFERENCE WITH
WEARING NATIONS.
-zz s--noRs oE STEPS TO BE TAKEN IN TIE

,o,,-,x- AFRICAN CoNFLICT-PREvIoUs IN
,-g-7s ~ -,7E LAST HALF CENTURY
as,,.h the same uneasiness that prevalleu Ii
this country at the time Of the "a1 w. 20
a. 70 the possibility Of some move % -
~ +ha great Powers Of Continen'A4 Hu- 80
=. view TO putting premature emu -
81 Is now apparent in Great De-
y,rs 70 its struggle IN souh
To,son newspapers are Loudly oIl''"7 0A -
f,z7a-nr,ent 70 take al the nec@sS"-'
g view TO the contingency OF 40
ton Fl the Transvaal troubie. Jl.-,
The United States would h0t Ia 81. -,
-s,,a1 ,,,tiou in behalf OF SPAIN "niie the
HIefiA- -oi--l q ,r,r-ess. and would have
=. administration 10 sacrlnce all
- the Nation before permitting
90 -.4-.-o,ion OF foreign Powers to deprive
- 60 - the fruits Of his victory. The Eng
~-.,-t,- race On the other side OF the At
-, ..,--si1 today the same feelings In the
So Of the menace Of foreign interference In the
.+-7,e4-,e with the Boer republic, and would be
a,nsI1v p-epared TO resist 70 the uttermost the
80 ~ any single Continental State or concert
- Powers il behalf Of the TransvaaL
T. must be understood that International &C
zion eouId take place only in behalf Of the Beers
var tror1 desiring IT, the English deeply resent
.rep he idea Of such thing, whereas the en-
=. automatic resources Of the Beers are now
devoted 10 the task OF inducing some Of the
,->st Powers l. interfere in the struggle The
Transvaal statesmen are clever enough to fore
So that Do matter how crushing and humiliat-
+,r the reverses which the English have sus-
tsfped so far. since the declaration of war, the
latter can only end II one way; that is to say,
sisastrously for thu South African Republic, IN
less some great foreign Government or coalition
Of foreign States steps forward TO rob England
q what she expects 10 be the fruits Of her vic
tories Dr. Ley5s. the clever Transvaal agent
IN Europe. e lowering between Paris and Berlin.
holding cut a. sorts Of Inducements both to
Germany and TO France on the condition Of their
Undertaking joint action with view to arresting
The progress Of The war while the brows of the
Boer leaders are still encircled with the Iaurels
Of brilliantly won victories
THE MOTIVE AN ECONOMIC ONE
But il is not only with the object Of winning
e privileged position II the Boer republics. or
OF securing Industrial and commercial a;lvant-
ages. that France, Germany and possibly Russia
and Austria would be disposed TO interfere in
South Africa Neither would mere sympathy
for the Beers OF the individual eagerness of
Emperor William TO play leading role and the
part OF arbiter and deus machina," be al
lowed 10 weigh in the balance. Still less Is there
8 desire Oh the part Of any Of the foreign Gov
srnments 10 humiliate England and to reduce
her 70 the rank OF a second rate Power The
motives which would prompt Germany and
France, as well as Russia, 10 intervene are Of q
Ear more serious and weighty character The
fact Of the matter Is that the war in South
Africa has already resulted in a financial strin-
gency on the Continental money markets, which
is giving rise to an economic disturbance OF
alarming character
" course II is the nations least able 10 bear
his stringency which suffer most acuteIy there
from, and among these may be included Russia
IS vel as Germany. In fact, the Muscovite Min
lister Of Finance, in a report just addressed tc
the Gar ascribes the present economic crisis
IN Russia 10 the monetary tightness resulting
from the war in South Africa, and does not hest
tate 10 declare that its continuance means wide
spread Industrial and commercial ruin through
out the dOminions Of Emperor Nicholas. The
condition Of affairs is not quite so critical in
Germany. Nevertheless, trade and industry
there are sufficiently severely affected by the
financial strIngency to excite much uneasiness
o. the part Of the Kaiser's Government In
deed II Is question whether the continuance of
the war between Great Britain and the Trans
wal would not prove infinitely more injurious 10
Russia, Germany and France than to England
herself. who thus far has hardly been damaged
a. al in an economic sense by the struggle Inter
Vention By any one Of the three Powers in cues
Lon, OF by the three Powers collectively. would
therefore be prompted by the necessity Of avert