Show THE EUROPEAN LABOR coNrE conference RENOE kaiser wilhelms proposal to submit to an international conference composed of delegates from germany england france belgium and switzerland all questions arising from the late labor troubles experienced in greater or less degree by those five nations appears to bo be beget beset with many difficulties difficult les the emperors own character in the first place las has not been such as to win for him any great praise as a philanthropist and the remembrance of a certain laconic speech of his delivered during the time of the miners strike in westphalia will tend to cast suspicion on bis his sincerity on t that hat occasion he caused to be conveyed to I 1 the strikers the imperial declaration that unless they comported hem them selves with greater circumspection than they had up to that time shown he would march out bis his guards and rive give them a taste of ball bill and bayonets the suggestion was effective though his majesty won no particular fame out of the transaction as an arbitrator or a friend of the workingman another serious difficulty in the scheme proposed lies in the fact that the economic and commercial policies of tho the various nations are so radically different as to preclude any possibility of agreement protected germany can never be made to believe that the cure of existing evils lies in the free trade policy of england the same great question might not arise between belgium tarn and distracted by labor and switzerland where strikes are BO so rare ai as to bo be almost unknown but other and equally weighty point points of dispute led 1100 I 1 7 it IB is v ephr ent of a I 1 t 11 p I 1 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 would inevitably be wee 1 ad constituting the daffe difference 11 ca in policy to be pursued by a country with an extensive seaboard een board and a 6 country a it miles from the tile nearest tidewater ag ater nevertheless never th 0 I 1 the anno announced object of the conference is a worthy one and ought to meet with encouragement it may not achieve ar acy y great good goodbub but it cannot work any barin larin it is especially commendable as an that ton crow ned bands beads are beginning to show allow some interest in the great conflict between wage age payer and wage a age earner corner a con conflict flicht that is every year becoming sharper and more bitter a c inflict that threatens unless arbitrated and settled by peaceful means to overturn existing conditions and break out in such a resolution revolution as the world has never seen |