Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-08
SPEECH BY ROsEBERY.
The Ex-Premier scores SalIsburY's
Foreign Policy.


LONDON, March 2S.- Earl Rose.
berry, leader of the Liberal party,
made an important speech tonight
before the National Liberal Fede-
ration. Lord Rosebery com
planned of the foreign complica-
tons which had come upon the
country sine Lord Salisbury had
come into office. He argued that
the bill of Mr. Long, president of
the Agricultural board, proposing
to make permanent the restric-
tons on the importation of Canad-
ian cattle was wholly inconsistent
with Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain's speech on Wednesday be-
fore the Canada Club, suggesting
a small tariff on food products
and raw material imported into
Great Britain from elsewhere than
her colonies. His scheme for
an Imperial zollverein for the
colonies and Great Britain" Lord
Rosebery continued, speaking of
his speech, demands very great
consideration both by those who
propose it and by those who
have to vote upon it." He asked
if this was Cabinet proposal or
was it the program of an individ-
ual, and why before taking the
proposals the Government had
introduced the Diseased Animal
Bill, which was a final damper on
one of the greatest sources of
trade of the Canadian breeders
with Great Britain. He did not
know how to reconcile these two,
but he strongly suspected that
the Canadian thinker and poiiti-
clan and the men of business
would prefer not to have had TINS
great scheme promulgated on
condition that Mr.. Longs Bill
had not been submitted. He had
only one thing to add, and that
was that lie did not think that
Mr.. Chamberlain in any wise I'M
der estimated the views of the
people of Great Britain and the
difficulties he would have to sur
mount with regard to Free Trade
and foreign trade before he could
succeed in putting his scheme into
effect.
Lord Rosebery further charged
the Government with a deplora-
BILE want of continuity in the
foreign policy. He pointed out
that within six months they had
been on the verge of war with the
United States and then with Ger
many and now they were embark
ing on war against peculiar
enemy. He said over the black
and bloody pages Of the book of
Armenia which England will
always look back to with shame
and remorse, Lord Salisbury up
to the end of December had dis
played leanings toward the
Dreibund. BY the beginning
Of January his continuous policy
had landed Great Britain III the
arms of France, whose affections
it was intended to gain by the
monstrous Siam convention.
That state had lasted about six
weeks and then Lord Sails
bury embarked in March to the
Soudan, which outrages France
and throws Great Britain back
into the arms of the Dreibund.
Lord Rosebery proceeded in de-
tail to strongly criticise the Nile
expedition. Continuing Lord
Rosebery complained of the in
decision and failure of the Gov
eminent to take the country into
its confidence. He greatly feared
the Government was fooling
themselves as we'll as the country.
Was it the time, he asked, when
we were menaced with compiled
tions in all quarters of the world,
to scatter our forces into the
deserts of the Soudan in a wal
which nobody could foresee the
end of and to waste the money
which Egypt needed for great
irrigation worksp