New-York tribune., 1901-11-07
ENGLAND NOT DISTURBED
FRANCES COURSE AT MITYLENE CAUSES
NO FLUTTER.
NEVERTHELESS SOME SECRET ARRANGE
MENT WITH GERMANY MIGHT YET
LEAD TO INTERVENTION
NEVER TfIEl
TO INTERVENTION.
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LEY CAELE To TIE rRIBuNE.I

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IBy CABLE TO THE rRIBUxEI
London. Nov. :. / a. M second meeting Of
the Cabinet to-day, adjourned from the previous
dav is the only sign OF excitement in England
over the French naval demonstration at Nifty
Iene The press comments are cautious and
temperate. and the leader writer's are content
with an expression of hope that the Sultan VIII
make a timely concession to the French Gov
ernment and enable the feet to withdraw after
protecting unimportant national interests These
bland reflections are filled out with pretty refer
ences to Sappho and to Antony's dalliance with
CIeopatra There is an evident intention on the
part of the English press TO minimize the Nifty
lene affair as much as possible and class 1t
with recert efforts of the United states and
Austria Hungary to obtain the settlement OF
private claims. II the ministers take the same
view II is remarkable that they have been In
session for two successive days, although IL Is
barely possible that they are holding prolonged
consultations over the legislative programme
and are paying little attention to Admiral Call
lard's cruise with two thousand troops.
There may. however, be more serious compi-
cations. There is no probability that the British
Government considers itself liable. under Lord
Reaconsfeld's Cyprus convention. to defend the
Ottoman Empire against "A French enizure OF
the revenues Of Mity.ene. 1t is, however. an
open question whether the Foreign Office may
not be embarrassed by some secret arrangement
with Germany respecting the Near East. the
German Emperor has been steadily developing
the commercial interests of his empire in Asia
Minor. and strengthening his own influence in
the Sultans capital It has been suspected for
a long time by students of current diplomacy
that Germany's neutrality in South Africa was
the result of a secret understanding with Eng
land respecting the Near East If these sus-
ricions are we'll founded the activity of the dis
patch bearers flying between Lord Lansdownes S
and Lord Salisbury's houses is a natural bit OF
byplay and the end of the prolonged Cabinet
conference is not an affair of minor Importance
like the futter of Lesbian swallows.
The downfall Of Tammany is d!s-,!ssed with
short paragraphs by a majority of the Engllsn
press. but with strongly emphasized morals. 1t
is described as a triumph for the cause Of good
government throughout the world. a cause
for rejoicing for lovers of virtue and honesty
everywhere and as the greatest blow yet struck
at the nefarious system Of organized villany
and blackmail. Ineptitude rather than corrup-
ton is recognized S the objective point against
which the energies of London administrative
reformers should be directed. Crokers English
friends have been asserting for long period
that he would make Moat House his permanent
politics. The Litcombe property is in the
charge of servants, and the villagers await
/ ing the return of the master and more local i'm
provernents Crokers brother-in-l:;w, DR.. Jen-
kins is the Atlantic approaching New-York
and not many of his American cronies remain in
London.
All this mornings newspapers refer in their
editorial columns to the victory for reform III
New-Yor
1t is felt that MI Low has undertaken big
task. which will call for every resource of his
practical ability. What he has got to DO
saws THE Daily News" lis to show New-York
that good people govern. He has to prove
that purity and efficiency friends 1t Is
not believed that Tammany is really conquered
THE permanent exclusion from politics OF
self-seeisins adventures cannot" remarks The
standard" .be achieved by a spasmodic ap-
nearance at the ballot boxes. Civic affairs must
he conducted by men of high character ana
nub1ic spirtt men like Mr.. Low and Justice
Jerome They should cooperate with President
Roosevelt in an effort to draw better klho
OF young Americans from the desk library anu
the counting house to the laborous and often
distasteful drudgery of administration
o.,oba- of a johannesburg financial house
has just had a remarkab BILE chat with ex-Pres'-
dent Krtiger about South African prospects
The ex-Presidents talk was all OF arbitratoh'
which he declared 10 be the only satlsiacto..
way of ending the war Asked what ne "ouiu
do if arbitration went against the Beers ne
replied that such thing was Impossible. II
could not happen. But assuming for the ih'
ment that it might he added:
I'VE should take up arms If arbitration "eh'
against us We should never submit 10 tie
results of arbitration If those results were uh
and wrongs.