The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-13

| SrHilenl poilcy IOWdTUS the 1IdHS-
wall. Behind the attack on the gov
ernment's action generally, there is a
bitter hatred towards the colonial sec
rotary. Time has not softened the
feelings which elected, at every men
ton of his name in the meetings of the
National Liberal club. the cry of Jul
das.'' So every possible advantage ia
taken to show him up as prevaricat-
ing and INSCRIPTIONS politician. The
Labouchcre cliqae think they have now
got him on the hip. in connection with
the Jameson raid revelations. The En-
| glish papers call them revelations, al
though nothing much that is new can
be CLEANED from the most recent de-
velopmentS of the controversy. But
| in brief, the newest form of charges
against Mr. Chamberlain is that Sir
John Willoughby and other officers
| leading the raid on the Transvaal had
| Mr.. Chamberl2in'S assurance that he
approved of the movement and would
support it. There are hints from the
radical side that already an eminent
politician who saw Mr.. Rhodes while
he was in England, pledged himself to
support the expedition. Here Sir Will
! lam Vernon Harcourt is aimed at.
There certainly exists correspondence
which Sir John Willoughbys solicitors
| hold, showing that jameson, Willough-
| by and other leaders of the raid had
/ been led to believe that Mr. Chamber
! lain for the government and Sir Yer
non Harcourt, for the opposition, had
/ given their sanction to the attack on
| the Transvaal But it can be stated,
with absolute certainty, that there eX-
lists no documentary proof duplicating
either Mr.. Chamberlain and Sir Will
4 IL,
which will be brought before the par
liamentary committee will consist
chiefly of letters passing between Sir
John Willoughby, Mr.. Jameson and
brother officers anent interviews with
Mr.. Chamberlain, Sir William Vernon
Harcourt and others. Neither Mr.
Chamberlain nor Sir William will be
found TO have given themselves aw ay
by documentary evidence.
RUSSO CHINESE CONVENTION.
The London bureau of the United As
ISOLATED Presses has the highest au-
thority for the statement that the Rus
so-Chinese convention is by no means
a surprise to Lord Salisbury, nor are
the main clauses of the agreement op-
posed to Elgland's interests. The sub
stance of the convention was discussed
upon the occasion of the visit of Ii
Hung Chang TO London, and was
known to Sir Nicholas OCOnnor, the
then retiring British minister to China
before he left Pekin to assume the
duties of British ambassador at ST
Petersburg. The convention does not
contain any concession of territory, but
only gives to Russia the right TO con-
struct a railway through Malchuria TO
Vladivostock- The branch railway to
Port Arthur is purely a Chinese en-
terprise.
The Ri. Hon. A J. Balfour, first
lord of the treasury, speaking at Bris-
tol on Feb. last while the Russo
Chinese treaty was pending. said that
so far from regarding with jealousy the
acquisition by Russia of a commercial
port on the Pacific, which would not
be frozen over to the exclusion of
vessels six months in every year. Eng
land would welcome it as a distinct
advance of civilization.
SUGAR INDUSTRY.
The question of the destruction of the
English colonial sugar industry is sup
posed by the free trade English press
to be solved by the argument that the
growth of the English confection and
preserved fruit industry more than
covers any loss arising from the ces-
sation of colonial trade This is
in an immediate practical sense.
and points the moral of the in
terviews on the subject contained in
dispatches TO the United Associated
Presses, We're the annexation of the
British antilles to the United States
was shown to be the natural issue of
the situation. But the gravitation of
the West Indian colonies towards the
United States is not on the programme
of the imperial federationists. Mr.
Chamberlain's commission of inquiry
into the West Indian sugar industry
is such an obvious put-off and abso-
lutte futility that the imperial fedora
ton leaders VIII have nothing to do
with it. SO when parliament meets
there win appear on the notice mo-
lions of the house several proposals
that the decaying condition of the
West India sugar industry Shall at
once be met by q system of counter
vailing duties. The interest aroused
by the revival in an acute form of this
trouble recalls the opinion expressed
by MIR. Gladstone some ten years ago.
after the London conference on the
bounties system: Il Think he said.
that both the trader and the work
man engaged in the business of REIN
ing sugar have great reason to COM
plain. My desire is that the British
consumer should have both sugar. and
every commodity at the lowest price
at which it can be produced without
~ dHN Ol those en-
gagged in the competition: but / can
not regard with favor any cheapness
which is produced by means of the
concealed subsidies of a foreign state
10 a particular industry, and with the
effect of Gripping and distressing cap
italists and workmen engaged in a
lawful branch of British trade"
The quotation here is expressly made.
because on absolute official informa-
ton it viii ultimately form the basis
of the action of the English govern
ment in settling the question. Mr..
knows the absurdity of
the contention. and the ultimate issue
of the whole matter is that either the
continental bounty giving powers abol-
ish bounties or the colonies obtain
countervailing duties.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Mr.. Dillon Will raise a debate on the
address in reply to the queens speech
opening the session of parliament, call
ing attention TO the report of the COM
mission on the financial relations be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland. The
Irish party contemplates no division
on the debate. But when the budget
comes before the house the combined |
Irish sections will insist upon an inn