The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
LAUGH ON cURZOu
UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAKES HIM.
SELF RIDICULOUS.
Z0LLvEREIN SCHEME AGAIN.
GIVEN ANOTHER INNING AT THE
CONGRESS OF THE AGRICUL-
TURAL UNION.
PET IDEA OFF pRoTEcT1oNIsrs
The National Storage Of Wheat Ad-
vOcated by n Prominent Mem
ber of Parliament.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-In political circles
there has been considerable laughter
over the speech which the parliament
ary under secretary for the foreign Of
flee, George N. Cursor, made on
Wednesday, and in which, completely
ignoring the Marquis of Salisbury, he
depicted himself as alone bearing the
burdens of foreign affairs. AS result,
even the staunch Conservative news
papers rebuke his conceit The Pail
Mall Gazette thinks that the conclu-
sion to draw from his speech is that the
government is blessed beyond measure
in it's foreign Office secretary. Mr.. Cur
zon also read to the editors a severe
lecture on the way they should con-
duct their newspapers. He said their
news is always unreliable and that
various foreign offices with a spare
us-a-copper" sort of air.
The imperial zollverein had another
inning at the congress of the Agricul-
tural union in Manchester A big bevy
of Conservative members of parliament
was present, and a resolution was
adopted urging the establishment of a
union. Lord Manham expressed the
opinion that Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain
had failed because, in his proposal, the
colonies took free trade as a basis
His lordship suggested to let the col
onies impose their own duties, simply
giving British goods the advantage of
10 per cent.
Robert A. Yerburgh, member of
parliament for Chester, has come for
ward with the draft Of a scheme to
carry out one of the protectionists' pet
ideas, & national storage for wheat as
a pick-me-up for British husbandry
and as a reserve of food stuff in the
event of war. He proposes that the
government build forty -granaries, each
divided into $50 silos, and capable Of
storing 2,500,G00 quarters aof wheat The
silos will be a hundred feet high, 10
feet across and built of brick or con-
crete, according to Mr.. Yerburgh' s
plan. Every arrangement is to be
made for shifting, airing and cleaning
the grain. 1t is estimated that the
capital outlay will be $107. .500000 and
that the annual cost of the storage
will be $1.410.0 600. If the scheme is
adopted, Great Britain will thus have
permanent reserve of 100000 quar-
ters of wheat
Samuel L. Plimseli the sailors friend.
whose work in behalf of sailors, pas
sengers at sea and shipping in general,
has won for him worldwide fame, is
launching another crusade. This time
he Is attacking the trusts. In a long
letter to the newspapers he points out
America as sad example OF the per-
nfcious effects Of such organizations.
He says: ''The epidemic of rapacity
has reached Europe, where, as In
America, it may be expected to spread
with sudden and unexpected rapidity." :"
Mr. Plimsell winds UP with a proposal
that parliament appoint a select COM
mittee to inquire into the whole sub
ject.
Lord Mayor Phillips states that no
date has yet been arranged for the
proposed banquet to the United States
ambassador, Thomas r. Bayard, but
that the Marquis of Salisbury, to whom
the matter has been mentioned, re-
ceived the suggestion with the utmost
kindness and cordfality.
There is much interest around let
ter in the London Times signed "Old
Fashioned Patriot" explaining the
patriotic instruction given to Ameri-
can youth. He tells how not t-only the
boys, but the girls in the United States
are drilled in giving military salute
in the schools to the stars and stripes.
and suggests that the saHae system be
introduced into British schools This
and the Globe warmly y,sstapports the
idea, adding: The unionf+jaek stands
TOR more than the star spanRaed BAN