New-York tribune., 1903-04-12
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
THE AFFAIRS OF LONDON.
Trusts No Longer Feared-Dutc'
Strike-Ir1sh Land Scheme.

and the interest or fore -sn news II is
accepted by the English press as a great per
sonal triumph for President Roosevelt. whose
faith in the resources Of American law for
establishing the supremacy Of the rights Of Con-
e-ess under the constitution has been vindi-
Gated The leader writers are agreed that the
decision is not likely to be overturned by the
United States Supreme Court and that the
President will receive credit for having made
successful as well bold stand against the
combinations Of capital. They also unite in the
assumption that the capitalists who have been
directing the recent operations of unparalleled
magnitude will employ the best legal talent
available in devising new methods OF evading
The laws 10 which increased energy has been i'm
parted by the Roosevelt administration.
The growth Of trusts in the United States and
Germany. which considered a menace TO the
Industrial and commercial supremacy of Great
Britain 4 year ago. has ceased to excite alarm
Benjamin Kidd. who is academic student of
social and industrial movements has been dis
cussing the question during the week. and pre-
dieting that the trust system, If unchecked by
State action. will be extended throughout the
British Empire and the civilized world This
view is not shared by the free trade doctrinaires
and English writers economic subjects They
assert that the evidence in recent years in both
Germany and the United States proves that the
principle Of open competition cannot be perma-
lions for the enrichment OF middlemeu and capi-
talists at the expense of producers and con-
sumers must ultimately fail, even without the
restraints Of Law. The conservative writers on
economic subjects, after lamenting for long
period the lack Of organizing energy in British
industries now console themselves with the re-
aection that the iron and steel trade and the
shipping interests OF the United Kingdom have
not been damaged either by Mr.. Norgans COM
hinstions or by the industrial energies OF Ger
many, and that a wasteful reaction has followed
q period which stimulated activity in rival pro-
ducing markets.
The strike in Holland has taken precedence
even Of the Kings Mediterranean journey as
subject Of supreme interest What was orlg1-
1ally desigHAd a political demonstration
against the Kuyper Cabinet became an III
directed socialist revolt, dependent upon the
subscriptions Of European workmen. The at
tempt TO call out the bakers at early stage of
The movement was 4 tactical mistake, since
the public was neaaced with bread riots and
starvation and promptly withheld sympathy
from the strikers. The subscriptions from for
eign workrnen were meagre and the attempt TO
organize q campaign Of passive resistance TO me
law and paraIyze the ordinary activities or So
cie;v was failure. The strike leaders. knowing
-rben they we're beaten, surrendered as soon as
the anti-strike law was forced through the
Chamber but the action of the defence COM
rr7ittee has been repudiated by the discontented
extremists. who have demanded renewal OF
the labor revolt in more aggressive form The
risk Of conflict between the soldiers and the
strikers is greater the closing stage Of the re
volt than ct the outset, but the restoration OF
order is expected next week. The threat or Ger
man Intervention for the protection Of transit
trade has been the most effective expedient for
counteracting the socialist movement The
spectre Of the spiked helmet has nomentariiy
-aken the place of John Bull as an ogre Tor
f-ightening the Dutch children into good be-
ilavior
The failure of the Suttans reforms in Mace
do-ia is assumed with suspicious alacrity botn
= Vienna and St. Petersburg. strenuous ei-
forts are now making TO bribe and conclllate lhe
Albanian chiefs and prevent open resistance TO
The reform measures Meanwhile Macedonia re-
mains in 4 state of terrorism with bulgarian
hands extorting money and distributing arms
among the sympathizefs, and there Is an uii-
1ristakabIe impression throughout the Balkan
region that Russian Intervention cannot long be
deferred.
The demand for the summary execution OF
the assassin who killed the consul at NITRO
1-ttza is less significant than the work OF tl1e
entire Russian consular service IN Maceooilid'
which is opening the way for the intervention u
The Northern power. Bulgaria is now COM
ogent= and Russian military experts have peer
raesfne through Macedonia this week Inc
occupation Of Macedonia by a Russian army Oe
fore the autumn is the result generally expected
-f7-o-Ehout the Balkan region The Ausriaii
C.c,-e----e-t has been strengthening the gaTri-
sors a BOSNIA but has not revealed any oellillte
-olicz It's action In the war Of 1871 was en-
ti~elv controlled by secret engagements WIN
Russia.
The slarmists who direct the reflections OF
.--,e e-ec,ator,, are not convinced by Mr. Bal
four-s explanations that the danger OF another
German enlargement even more serious nc,
the Venezuelan affair. has been aTerted III the
gagaa5 Pathway transactions. and probably MI
Na~se who has converted The National he-
lew into a poxerful organ Of anti-GerInah
or,inio~ ,,-iu he equally suspicious MI bai-
four-e guarded statement has been highly com
-~er6ea b.- the German press which never lachS
c7las from, the Foreign Office while the 6oNe'i'
r-erf has been warned by unmistahap'e e'
dencas Of uuh!ic disapproval that the pai'"e'
shin arrangements with Germany are dlstaS'e
Iul There are many indications that obllsa
rions were incurred during the Boer war "hi'ii
make il convenient for Lord Lansoo"he ~
gra9ifv the German Emperor whenever HS ~
siders ii safe 70 do 50
The enef-ies Of the government assert una 4
has turned over the issues of foreign d'pioii,"
10 the German Emperor and the "hoie So 80
trade of domestic politics 10 the irlsA Natio'a
lists e-e-+afrly Mr. Redmond affects 10 "a
established > benevolent protectorate oE0i
fortunes of the Ministers. and can olse' -
efec, of Tory desertions on the ne" h"UN"''
li,I end military divisions A considerao-e iU1.'
Der o< Ministe.s have gone 10 - ,,,..rest