New-York tribune., 1901-07-17
british NAVAL TACTICS.
poRATE NANGUvREs PREPARED
BY. THE ADMIRALTY.
..,,s.srs AGAINST EXPENSE OF RUSSELL
1~pIA1IlcoMMENT ON THE STEEL STRIKE.

Rhi4A3
y =. ..rn,T,p,t: 1901: By The New:York Tribune)
Z "a fly CABLE TO- THE TRIBuNEl
son July IL 1 a m.-The mobilization of
aaets at Portsmouth and Devonport for
W. roanosuvres Of exceptional interest serves
- avert public attention from the inglorious
uo,racted war in South Africa. The Chan
acct and the reserve squadron will be pitted
,,s+ each other in an ingenious scheme of
- warfare devised by the Admiralty, and
p@ admirals will try TO outmanauvre each
- Both fleets were rapidly mobilized and
w ,-,,se will be followed by the nation from
- .o dav with pride and interest, whether one
s,rsl or the other succeeds in breaking
.o,,ob the official scheme. based almost too
.5opsl, upon the strategic value of Gibraltar
,d the possibility Of a French fleet getting
.hsa6 of an English fleet in reaching the goal.
Tho two souadrons are not evenly matched. One
,s much faster and stronger than the other.
Those naval manauvres are more elaborate
"a COSTLY than those conducted in recent years.
rts Lord SeIborne's first attempt to exploit the
-ssources Of the British navy, and he is not
counting the cost. Possibly the government con-
elders II expedient 10 make a big naval demon
sration al a time when British military pres
+ire has suffered from the tedious conflict with
the Beers.
lord Rosebery's striking manifesto, In which
he bids farewell TO the political arena, puts an
end 10 the pleasing fiction OF Radical unity
pe declares the Reform Club compact TO be
4 hollow sham that the divisions among the
Liberals are not transient or accidental, but
nermanent and fundamental; that their atti-
tude on the war-neutrality and an open mind
,s an impossible attitude and spells impotence.
nd that in one word Liberalism is extinct
IN Of
,.s opposing groups has gained a decisive and
ron,a+a victory over the other. The Pro-Boer
,rass disputes Lord Rosebery's right TO lecture
.,a Tiberal party on its principles or its policy
.,v one il saws can carry on the business or
9 uracker Construction, though humdrum, is
far more important and Lord Rosebery would
have done better TO help the cause OF reunion
than 10 stand outside of the vineyard and throw
stones.
Fmpbatic protests are heard against the ex-
.ons,,,a trial rendered necessary by the survival
nf privilege when a peer is charged with a
.alonv Some of these press remonstrances are
rrobaI,l1y caused by the difficulty Of securing
SEATS when the court officials reserVins every
available place for the privileged classes MOI
orlv will the State be involved in large eX-
nense bv the preparations for Earl Russelrs
trial but the judges Of the Kings Bench DlVis-
an will be brought in from assze towns at
great inconvenience, and the normal functions Oh
,bA higher courts will be temporarily suspended
Many sensible people consider that the game
,s not worth The candle and advocate an i'm
uediate alteration in the statute so as 70 render
another trial by peers for felony impossible
The peeresses have claimed the seats reserved
for them and there will be large muster or
peers One popularity Of this trial by jury OF
naers is that several relatives Of Earl Russell
will pass Judgment upon him. There are so
MANY anomalies that this is likely TO be the last
trial Of the kind in England.
The English press is printing long dispatches
on the steel strike in America. but refrains from
commenting upon the struggle between organ
has been less reticent, for he forecasts an Amer
lean Armageddon with the revival OF the old
anti-sIavery feeling and the transformation or
trusts into State organizations by the political
power Of hordes of workmen.
Financiers watch the quotations from Wall
Street and are unmoved by socialistic TRADES
Combinations are felt TO be trial in America,
and if they survive the great conflict with or
garized labor concentration of capital will be
promoted here There are trusts and combines
with every depth Of water in all the chief indus
tries mere. and the financial results so far as
dividends are concerned, are mixed Some trusts
have been only moderately successful, and the
hopes Of their promoters have been seldom full
filed owing TO the fact that the enterprises have
been heavily overca apitalized. /. n. f.