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BRITISH TO THE BACKBONKE
DEATH OF MRS. HETTY GREEN
"AMERICA'S RICHEST WOMAN.
Mra. Hetty Grunn, who was anid to be. the richest woman in Amerian and the greatest woman financier in the world, has died in her 81st year, te
GERMAN TRADE:
TO FACE "A HIGH TARIFF WALL.
[BY K. INBLEY-CASPER.]
THE IRISH RIBING, ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT.
Australia Canada, New-Zealèxia, India and South Africa. One of the delegates: sounded the keynote in saying, that "it would be unwise to legislate en tho ns--
THE RESPONSIBILITY: sumption that those countries which are our friends to-day would always be our
The report of the Royal Commission friends, and that those which are our enemies would always by our enemies."pointed " to inquire into the causes of The Allied Economic Conference, open- As Mr. Hughes the Australian Prima the recent outbreak of rebellion in Ire Harriet Howland Robinson was born ing in Paris June 14th, and announcing Minister, has been in England for land, and into the conduct and degree of at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on on June 20th the result of its delibera- several months actively working upon his responsibility of the civil and military "xecutive in Ireland in connection there- was issued last month as briefly November 21st, 185, the daughter of Mr.tions, is described as "a study of the schems for a preferential tariff among with," Edward Mott Robinson, a wealthy man, practical aspects of victory. The com-all the colonies and Great Britain, the recorded in our cable columas as the of Bon £2,000,000. Her aunt, Sylviations, which the delegates are placing in probation at the Imperial Council of Robinson, bequeathed her another mil-identical terms before their Govern Ommerce as fair to all, putting no clusions: lion, but, net content with the money shoments, takes for granted that Germany pressure on any country, and at the same inherited, she said: Every woman and her allies are going to lie prostrate time laying the foundation of an empire ought to work," and who devoted herself before the allies of the Quadruple such as the world has never dreamed of." to the business of a financier with such Entente and be forced to accept their The Council's programme, placed before success that it was estimated that during dictation in regard to international the British Government as a suggestion before Bonur Law, Lord Crewe and Mr. the latter years of her life she controlled commerce at the end of this war. a fortune of something like 18 millions.
Hughes attended the Paris Conference, sterling.
provided
who died in 1865, leaving her a fortune mercial treaty, einbodying its sugges. Australian plan received general ap time report enatains the following co
She
1.For preferential reciprocal rela t'ons between all parts of the British. Empire.
2. For reciprocal trading between all parts of the British Empire and the allied countries...
Germany and her allies are to be boy- cotted after the war until they are com mercially forced to their knees, while the subjects of William II, Francis Joseph, Czar Ferdinand and the Sultan are to be commanded to employ their energy and romacy of the countries of the Quadruple abilty to build up the commercial sup Entente. This is to be done by a high tariff wall against the central empires, and at the same time the elimination of
4.---For restricting by tariff and other tariff restrictions against the allies with-trics su as to render damping or a return. wise trade relations with all enemy coun- in the countries of the central empires.
neutral countries.
3.For the favourable treatment of
to pre-war conditions impossible.
She more than once came to the aid of the city of New York, and when Wall Street was disposed to ask too high a price for its assistance she lent money at reduced rates in times of emergency.
With all her vast wealth she was oddly economical, and even parsimonious. As one who knew her said: "It is constitu- tionally impossible for her to part with money, but aside from money she is the gentlest, kindest, most sympathetic, and considerate old lady I think I have
This, the most far-reaching commer Mr. Hughes was personally responsible every seen in my life. She cannot give away her money but she gives herself to ciul boycott in history, can be weighed for the fourth provision in the suggested everyone who crosses her pathway.
and estimated in it aprobabilities and Bew imperial commercial programme. A would not give you ten dollars er even possibilities of realization by the fact little man, slender in physique and a aquarter, but she would walk, old that none of the delegates at the Paris semi- nvalid, born in Wares and emigrat woman that she is, from Harlem to the Conference had any authority to binding to Australia at the age of twenty, Battery if thereby she could get you a the Governments they represented. They earning his living by the saverest kind of good situation that would help you to could merely enter into council and remanual labour, rising through poverty, help yourself.
port the result of their observations when ill health and lack of education to the She would not lend you hundred dollars without gilf-edged they returned home. How far these re- foremost political position in the gift of security, but she would sit no half the commendations will be necepted will de- h's state, Mr. Hughes is consumed with night working for you. Her heart is not pend upon what is left of them when perfect fury of hatred against Ger. hardened to the needs of those about her, they are subjected to the tests of commany's but it rains personal service instead of mon sense and sound economic doctrine. tash."
France took the initiative in calling She married Mr. Edward H. Green in the inference, acting upon emotional 1807, and it was characteristic of her impulse and the desire for revenge that in the marriago, contract she stipu against the enemy of 1870 as well as the iated that she was to have complete con- present-revenge against the nation which trol of her own fortune. In twelve years in 1870 took away her rich provinces, ho had lost all his money; she had in-Alsace and Lorraine, and in 1914, ereased hers by millions.
pied with troops the far richer district in Northern France held to-day.
a
THE BIMPLE LIFE.
commercial supremacy, and, while in England,, he has pleaded with an eloquence almost equal to that of Rarke and Chatham for the annibilation. of the enemy's power to steal the trade of the British Empire when the war is over,
romance.
"Before you build up you must de- cou-stroy," he says. You must make it plain. to the world that you are to destroy the control of British trade by Germand
"For the past twenty-five years Ger- many's advanes read, like a Britons lived in a paradise of fools, be lieving that all was well, but nothing is more certain than this that had peace" stayed with us for another ten years we It was would have been utterly undone. well that the war came when it did There is going to be a great struggle at the end of the war, not only between Ger- many and ourselves, but between Germany and ourselves.”
The stories of Ready Money Hetty," WHY GREAT BRITAIN PARTICIPATED. ne she was sometimes called, were legion. Despite her immense fortune, she led the Great Britain participated in the simplest of lives, and her expenditure Paris comference after a long period of for the greater part of her life was esti arguiment on the part of her ally and anted by the American Press at well because the British Government could under £10 a year. There was a moment not encourage the enemies of the Quad when Hetty Green departed from her ruple Entente by publicly declining to simple way of living New York was support France in anything. The British startled by the news that Ready Money delegates ware Bonar Law, leader of the Hetty had suddenly rented a luguri Unionist party and a member of the ous suite of rooms at one of the big hotels. Coalition Government, the Marquis of But Hetty Green found the rw splend-Crewe, spokesman of the Government in Mr. Hughes is called the successor of our little to her taste, and after but the House of Lords, who took the place Joseph Chamberlain, and lecked upon as brief enjoyment of it, retreated to her old of Walter Runciman, President of the the only man capable of welding all the enostentatious life
Board of Trade, who was too ill to go, parts of the British Empire into a uni
He Here is
story toll of her business and William Morris Hughes, Prime hed whole by regulations of trade. tactics" In a financial crisis she called Minister of Australia. It was a delega proposes, by utilizing the national livs- at her bank in New York one day, and tien muted with the conviction that interia against Germany and her allies, to withdrew in cash the enormous sum of perial unity between. Great Britain and make it impossible for Great Britain t C200,000, which she ordered to be placeder colonies is the primary object of the sign commercial treaties in London, in in a four-wheeler which was waiting for nation's policy, cernomie naion between cluding rights and privileges granted by her outside The bank manager offered the British Empire and its allies being Britain in her colonies to other nations, without the consent of the colonies them that if she left the money on deposit the secondary, wi
The Japanese representation was led solves. Australia wok drastic action at bank would pay her 6 per cent,, whercas. the rate at the time was only 4 per cent. by Baron Sakatani, formerly Minister of the vory beginning of the war to remove Hotty Green demanded 8 per cent, and Finance, who had charge of the recon-German commercial control, which, until as this was refused withdrew the money.struction of finance and commerce in the it became a war measure, the Australian do because Accompanied by two armed detectives, Pacific empire after the war with Chine Commonwealth could not she drove around town until nearly the and again at the conclusion of the war Great Britain had a treaty of commercial Felosing time of the bank, when she again with Russia. He stated that his instro-reciprocity with Germany which pro drove up to the door. In the meantime, tions were of a general nature, and that vided for equal treatment in all the ports withdrawals at the bank had been very he came for information which would be of the British Empire.
The dumping which the Quadruple heavy, and the institution was on the valuable in the reconstruction period verge of suspending. Hetty Green kuew after this war, when questions would Entente claims that Germany intends to this, and when she again presented her have to be settled concerning indemnities, use against them after the war, flooding self with her bags of specie and notes loans and stock exchange quotations, their, countries with goods sold at leas the bank was only too willing to pay her these being delicate, subjects, often com-than cost in order to regain the markets plicated at such times by dissensions would not appear to be the policy of 10 per cent for a temporary loan,
William II. and his allies if. American Hetty Green regularly went to her office among alling, every day. When she went unt she sim ply snapped the door to, depending on the She Yale look to protect her treasures," fought all her own lawsuits for roany years, preparing her own cases and argu ing most of them personally.
The
It is outside the scope of your Majesty'n instructions to us to inquire how far the policy of the Irish Executive was. adopted by the Cabinet as a whole, or to attach responsibility to any but the Civil and Military Executive in. Ire- land; but the general conclusion that we
Russia frankly stated her position consular reports from Berlin and Vienna through M. Krastavnikov, onu of the correctly set forth the facts The Mini- most prominent authorities an industrial: ster of Commerce in Austria, in recom affairs in the Czar's empire, mending to bis Government the construc Our representatives at the Paris Contion of water routes for commercial pur ference will be the delegates of the counposes from the North Sea and the Baltic Hetty Green was the only woman in try constituting a huge, almost the big to the Black Sen says:It is to be as New York State who had permission to gest, market in the world for the sale of sumed as probable that the trans-oceanic. carry a revolver at all times. Several manufactured products. Russia will re relations maintained by the central years ago she and her daughter Sylvia present at this conference that tempting powers before the war will, at least for were held up and robbed of some morsel toward which will be stretched all some time, not occupy a leading posi In Berlin there is to be a new Imperial valuable papers which they were using hands, and our foes and our friends will ton," in a big lawsuit, and since that time she undoubtedly try to obtain conditions. had always gone armed. On the top of benefical to them. Therefore our repre- Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Indus her little desk in her office over the bank sentatives will have to be exocedingly try. At Munich there has recently been one of the must conspicuous objects was strong in order to defend themselves not formed the Dual Trade Alliance, com a biggish revolver, which was just within only from foes but friends. We have not posed of représentatives from Germany reach of its owner's hand. There had thed our blood in order, after emancipat and Austria-Hungary, In Hamburg only been one occasion when she had occaing ourselves from economic dependence there has just been formed the German sion to use this weapon, and this was upon Germany, to fall into similar de Exports Trade Company. All of these organizations of the central powers aret when a lawyer's clerk tried to terrify her pendence upon some other country.'
The policy of" revenge which has rublicly stating their aim-the exploitay nto parting with some papers in an action. She persuaded him to withdraw thrown the soldiers of Tranen into this tion of the Balkang, Turkey, Mesopo both himself and his demand with the war has not met with sofficient success to tamia und Persia The manufactured appeal to a majoriy of the commercial articles suitable for export trade in all pistol,
classes as the foundation itong of the re- the countries of Germany and her allies, Germany itself estimated at public's trade policy after the war, alin. It is on the rock of duty and discipline, though any nespaner editor who is cour- $1,500,000,000 and constantly increasing of knowledge and suffering and comrade ageous enough to voice the sentiment of because there is plenly of labour among ship, of do all you know and no excuses the people in opposition to the Govern- the old men and the women, form the taken, that the character of the British gent on this or any other subject is tak-nightmare of dumping" among bluejacket is based. E. Hallam Mooring h's life in this hands, so to speak. Quadruple Entente and among many of In England the censor is not so severe be the neutral countries. But there will be cause the Government has apparently no a natural outlet for it in the near East, erious intention of putting into practice which is the object of the commercial am the policy of commercial revenge, un-bitions of the Central Empires, lees it be the natural hoycote which will come if the constructive policy of the imperialiats is carried out between Great Britain and her colonies. This would hit Britain's allies quite as hard as her
Mr. H. Samuel, in reply to Mr. Joyn present enemies. Digging beneath the surface of things, one can find in the son-Hicks in the House of Commons, said Allied Economic-Conference in Paris he was informed that the operations under the leadership of France the para- which the London Agency of the Deutsche mount desire to pledge Great Britain to Bank had been permitted to carry on a policy of international commercial re-under the supervision of Sir William, lations which would save France, Russia, Plender were those of getting in on Italy and Japan from becoming the vic-standing assete, discharging liabilities to tims of tariff restrictions imposed by the British Empire as a whole against the rest of the world.
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British, Allied, and neutral creditors, and vesting securities in the hands of the Public Trustee. They had necessitated the continued employment of some of the original staff of the agency. The numbor of alien enemies employed had beeni Just before the Paris Conference took steadily reduced from time to time as place the British Imperial Council of the work proceeded. It was 105 at the Commerce met in London. There were outbreak of war, and it was now 10 Ho delegates from most of the Chambers of had every hope that a further rednelion Commerce in Great Britain, also from might be made almost at unve,
draw from the evidence before us is that the main cans of the rebeliou appears to be that lawlessness Was allowed to grow up nnchecked, and that Ireland for several years past has been administered on the principle that it. was safer and more expedient to leavs Jaw in abeyance if collision with any faction of the Irish people could there by be avoided. Such a policy is the negation of Thay
cardinal rule of government which demands that the enforcement of law. and the preservation of order should always be independent of political ex- pediency.
IMPORTATION OF ABMS
quantities of arms into Ireland after The lapse of the Anus Act, and the -toleration of drilling by large bodies of men first in Ulster, and then in other districts of Ireland, proated conditions which rendered possible the recent troubles in Dublin and elsewhere.
We consider that the importation of large
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It appears to us that reductance was. shown by the Irish Government to ge
written press by prosecution spoken seditious utterances, and to sup--
the drilling and maneuvring of Hemed forces known to be under the control of men who were openly declar- ing their hostility to your Majesty's Government and their readiness to welcome and assist your Majesty's cemies."
This reluctance was largely prompted by the pressure brought to bear by the, Parliamentary representatives of the Irish people, and in Ireland itself there developed a widespread belief that no repressive measures would be inder- taken the Government against sedi tion. This led to a rapid inerchest preparations for insurrection and swad the immediate cause of the recent out! break, M
We are of opinion that
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break of war alt drilling and man- anvring by unrecognized bodies of men, whether armed or unarmed, should have been strictly prohibited, and that as soon as it became known to the Frisk Government that the Irish Volunteers and the Citizen Army were under the control of men prepared to assist your Majesty's enemies, if the opportunity should be offered to them, ali drilling. and
open carrying of arms by these bodies of men should have been forginły suppressed.
It does not appear to be dispated that the authorities in the spring of 19!6 while believing that the seditious bodies would net venture unaided to break into insurrection, were convinced that they were prepared to assist a Germaa landing
We are further of opinion that at de risk of collision early steps should have been taken to renest and prosecito, leaders and organizers of sedition. For the reasons in fore given, we do not MIKKELL'S RESPONSIBILITY,
think that any respoisibility rests upon the Lord Lieutenant. He was appoint- ed in February, 1915, and was in no way answerable for the policy of His Government.
We are, however, of the opinion that the Chief Secretary as the administrative head of your Majesty's Government. in Ireland is primarily responsible for, the Rituation that was allowed to avie and the outbreak that occurred
A
Sir Matthew Nathan assumed office fase. Under-Secretary to the Irish Governe nent in September, 1914, only In our View he carried out with the utmost. loyalty the policy of the Government and of bis immediate superior the Chief Secretary, but we consider that he did not sufficiently impress upon the Chief Secretary during the latter's prolonged absences from Dublin the necessity for more active measures to remedy the. situation in Ireland which on Decen her 18th Inst in a letter to the Chief Secretary he described
Host seri¬
ous and menacing. We are satisfied that Sir Neville Cham
berlain, the Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Colonel Edgeworth Johnstone, the Chief Com missioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, required their subordinates to furnish, and did receive from their sub- ordinates, full and exact reports as to the nature, progress, and aims of the various armed associations in Ireland. From these sources the Government had: abundant material on which they could have acted many months before the leaders themselves contemplated any actual rising 201
For the conduct, zeal, and loyalty of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police we have nothing but praise, t
We do not attach any responsibility to the military authorities in Ireland for the rebellion or its results. As long as Ireland was ander civil government those authorities had nothing to do" with the suppression of sedition Their
luties were confined to securing ciency in their own ranks and to the promotion of recruiting, and they could only aid in the suppression of disorder when duly oled on by the civil power. By the middle of 1915 it was obvious to the military authorities that their efforts in favour of recruiting: Were, being frustrated by the hostile activi- ties of the Sinn Fein supporters; and: they made representations to the Gove crument to that effect. The general, dauzer of the situation was clearly pointed out to the Irish Government by the military authorities, on their own Piliarivan Eebruary Last, but this warning fell on unheeding car