The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
BRITAIN,s NEW DIsRAELI.
Earl of Kimberley in the Role of a
JingOist and Buffer.
New York Press.


New York Press.
England has new, that is to say, a COM
paratively new, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
and he is minister worth having: In the
Earl of Kimberley we recognize many of
the traits of Palmerston and Disraeli, the
representative British Foreign Ministers of
the century; and let US show why we recog-
The secret of the success of those two
clever gentlemen was that of Wellington de
tremendous bounce" In other words, by
bluff. They never had any wars worth mem
tioning. But they were always going to
inexpensive Cromwells. They gave John
Bull all the delightful frenzies of patriotic
feryor without costing him penny, except
an occasional vote of credit for a few new
ships. That is what endeared them to John
Bulls heart. AS reward, Lord Palmer
ston held office nearly all his long life and
Lord Beaconsfield would have died in Office
had he not made the one great error of his
career. that of not dissoiving Parliament
after the negotiation of the Berlin treaty.
Lord Kimberley is copying the tactics of
these statesmen under great difficulties and
with extraordinary astuteness. Palmerston
was a high caste Wing who would have
been an ultra Tory had he lived until to-
would have been natural for either of them
to have. stirred up couple of perfectly
safe and easily handled foreign complica-
tons on the eve of a general election in
which his party was hopelessly hand-
capped on domestic issues That is not
what could naturally have been expected
from Gladstonian peer like Lord Kimber-l
ley, but that is precisely what he has done.
He has drawn an ultimatum on the
cause misinterpretation. to puzzle poor Mr..
Gresham, to make much noise and many
ingoes making faces at our jngoes. Pleased Pleased
with the success of this experiment, Lord
Kimberley has taken down his maps and
JOHN Bull to singing God Save the Queen.
and I'VE Don't Want to Fight" and to
guards and at EN- and all the other wei
lingtonian and Crimean shibboleths. He has
found it in the upper Niger valley where
the troops of a speculative corporation
known as the Royal Niger Company have
had brush with some French prospectors.
E6xard Grey to view in n the he's House H the The
action of the French as ''unfriendly." This
i delightful when taken in CONNECTION with
Office passed over the Sierra Leone affair,
in which a captain and ten privates of the
French soldiers, and treated without re-
course to threats the French usurpation in
Siam, out of which might have been made
a just occasion of war.
There is every reason to suppose that the
trick will work with absolute success. Since
the new Car turned the cold shoulder
France is without friends in Europe. Her
Madagascar expedition furnishes the ever
necessary Gallo vent for hot blood. There
is no reason to suppose that France desires
10 engage any enemy in her front, with
Germany ready to fly on her flank, and
make new war a question not of in
demnity, but of dismemberment Nothing
is certain in French diplomacy, but it looks
as if Lord Kimberley had played a safe
hand abroad
At home he has taken the trick The
astute Labouchere has fallen into the trap
and with his usual patriotic regard of every
non-Brtish interest, calls Sir Edward Grey's
statement .'menacing' and a quasi declara-
ton of war" 1t is-against him and his
tail of ultra Radicals. We shall not be
surprised to hear of Mr.. Gladstone.s post
ing up to London to insist upon a return
to parochial lines of policy. Meantime the
country is in fair way to forget that the
Liberal party is not, in view of the results
of the bye elections, prepared to go be-
fore 1T any one of its programmes of
abolition-House of Lords Irish Union or
Welsh Establishment. Therefore we salute
Lord Kimberley new Pamerston, a
new Disraeli, cleverer than they in view
of the fact that he is at once lingo and
GladstoniaIs He, the representative of a.
party that once boosted through John Bright
that it had no foreign policy" sets out
to rally the country to it's support on lines
of aggression in Nicaragua and on the
Niger
We hate to quote that hackneyed saying
about Sir Robert PeeIs having 'stolen the
clothing of the Wings while they were in
bathing" but it seems that the MARQUIS
of Salisbury and his followers are going
about just now in a painful state OF de-
mutation while Lord Kimberley is proving
himself "a strict Conservative of their
g5rrnents'' .