Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-27
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

] government lnuS Tar mas pten Ailbl NilCll
was taken a few days after its accession, in
! ordering the stoppage OF importation OF
7 Chinese coole labor into South Africa 1t
viii be recalled that a sensation was caused
! thereby i'm Great Britain and the Trans
vaal. and political capital was made for the
! liberal party in the electoral campaign. The
/ sequel to that action has not so fully been
| made known The fact is that the legality
| OF the order was promptly called in ques-
ton, and upon reference to him the attor-
ney general OF the Transvaal gave the
| opinion that. so far as 1t applied to impor-
tation licenses already granted, it was IL
! legal and could not be enforced. There
! upon the government. finding that licenses
had already been granted for a couple of
years to come, was practically compelled to
abandon it's order contenting itself with
the declaration that. while the importation
of coolies might be continued under the
licenses already granted. responsibility for
it would rest upon the former government
and the present government would wash it's
| hands of the whole affair No further
| licenses will be issued, but II is doubtful
| whether any more would in any case have
| been sought. since those already granted
| provide for about all the labor that is
| needed. So the liberal government got the
credit of having given the order, the indus
| trial arrangements of the Transvaal are
not interfered with and everybody is happy.
THE growth of prohibitionist sentiment in
New Zealand in a few years" writes a cor
| respondent, has been as remarkable as the
growth of socialism, and 1t is more likely TO
be enduring In the referendum taken at
the same time with the late elections, a
clear majority of votes in both the North
| and South islands was in favor of no Ii
cense. which would have been SUFFICIENT TO
vote out the saloon in almost any American
! town or country under local option. But
\ that country of experiments required a
| three-fifths majority, and the measure
| therefore failed. SLY grog selling is the
local phrase for blind pig operations, and
| the prohibitionists have been making wide
use of the remarks of magistrate from the
bench regarding the amount of perjury,
sneaking and deceit involved in the conduct
of open bars. All liquor telling, licensed and
| unlicensed alike, they call sly" New Zea-
land has local option law and although
| prohibition for the entire country was de-
feated, the dry" area has been largely in
creased.
Some idea of the political spirit prevail
ing in some parts of Hungary today may
be gained from the details of the treat
ment recently accorded to NJ. Kovacs who
recently had the misfortune to be ap-
pointed by the king high sheriff of Haiduck
| county, of which Debrecsin is the chief
| city. This has always been a Magyar
| stronghold. Previous to the arrival of NJ.
kovacs. the citizens issued a proclamation
of boycott and accommodation against
him. They had hearse at the railroad
station for his conveyance and a body
guard armed with rotten eggs Fore
warned. he refused to leave the train, but
he was pulled out, pelted, thrown down
and trampled on. He was then, according
to local paper, lifted up SO that he could
be stoned and beaten the more effectively.
He was rapidly dragged to the hearse out
| side, thrown upon it, and, as 1t started
the crowd sang the Kossuth hymn. In
this way he was conveyed through the
streets to the chief square, where he fell
from the hearse and tried to take refuge
! in a coffee house. The crowd however,
headed him off and drove him across the
stree, where he fell unconscious under the
archway of the savings bank. Two bank
clerks protected him from further injury,
and carried him upstairs, while the citizens
broke the windows. and tried to storm the
building. His head, which was bleeding
in many places, and his left hand, of
which two fingers were smashed, were then
bound up, and when he had recovered
consciousness he was, at the instance of a
committeeman for public safety, induced
to sign his resignation. TIL, affair natu-
rally has provoked much inGi snation in
Vienna
Further details of the recent work of
France in Morocco are to be found in a
report, published in a Paris newspaper of
a recent tour of inspection made in south
ern Oran by NJ. Jonnart, governor general
of Algeria. In company with General
Lyautey he has reorganized the whole sys-
tenn of Hinterland defence, substituting for
the many small military posts a number
of larger garrisons capable of policing
wider regions than before. The old gar
risons of regular troops have been super
seeded by Saharan troops, recruited in the
country living on the land and extremely
mobile They are always moving from
point to point of their districts, and easily
surprise marauding Moorish bands by the
rapidly of their march, During the last
eighteen months these bands have been
constantly attacked and broken up Pacifi-
cation on the frontier region is, therefore.
proceeding steadily. Two years ago 1t
would have been impossible for the gov
ernor general to make his tour with the
weak escort that accompanied him. Some
chief of tribes formerly hostile turned out
to salute him and to thank him for the
re-establishment of security in their region.
Occasional outbursts are still possible, says
NJ. Jonnart, in southern Oran, but as a re-
suit of the new system there will no longer
be such heavy losses in men and money as
heretofore.
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, a small
mountain principality of southern Europe,
has set good example for Gear Nicholas
and the few other remaining autocrats.
, He has given his people a parliament and
the right of suffrage. Montenegro has
been ruled despotically from the time 1t
became nation. For forty-fve years
Prince Nicholas has exercised autocratic
power, holding even the lives of his sub
jects in his hands. His voluntary sur
render of supreme authority was as I'M
expected the declaration which ac-
companied it is surprising. In an impas-
stoned speech ushering in the new order
p OF things he declared he had always be-
leved that every man belonging 10 civil
: lzed society should be a free citizen. The