The herald., 1896-03-28
LORD ROSEBERY COMPLAINS
SALISBURY'S PROGRAM PRODUCES TOO
MANY FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS
Chamberlain's Canadian Protection schem
ID Ridicuied, and the Nile Expedltleo
Heartily Condemned-This 10 Not Tl0o
to Scatter the British Porces

LONDON, March 27.-The earl of Rose
berry, leader of the Liberal party, made
an important speech tonight before tho
National Liberal federation.
Lord Rosebery complained of the for
eign complications which had come upon
the country since Lord Salisbury had come
into Office. He argued that the bill of Mr..
Long, president of the agricultural board,
proposing to make permanent the restricr
tions on the Importation of Canadian cat.
Gle, was wholly Inconsistent with Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain's speech on We'd
nesday before the Canadian club, suggest.
ing a small tariff on food products and
raw material imported into Great Britain
from elsewhere than her colonies. in r.
turn for the free entry of British manufac.
lures into all the colonies.
His scheme,2 Lord Rosebery continued~
speaking of this speech, 'demands very
grave consideration, both by those who
propose it and those who have to voto
upon it.
He asked if this was cabinet proposal
or was it an individual, and why, beforo
making the proposals, the government bad
adopted the diseased animal bill, which
was q final damper upon one OF the greot
sources of trade of the Canadian hroedoFD
with Great Britain. He did not know how
to reconcile these Two. but he strongly slls-
pected that the Canadian thinker and poll.
tician and the man of business would pre-
fer not to have had this great scheme pro.
mulgated on condition that Mr.. Long'a
bill had not been submitted. He had only
one thing to add. and that was that he did
not thinx that Mr.. Chamberlain in any
wise underestimated the views of the
people of Great Britain and the difficulties
he would have to surmount with regard to
free trade and foreign trade before he
could succeed in putting his scheme int
effect.
Lord Rosebery further charged the eov.
,ort until ~
tinuity in the foreign policy. He pointed
out that within six months it had been
on the verge of war with the United States
and then with Germany, and now Il
was embarking on war against no pax.
ticular enemy. He passed over the black
all England would look back to with shame
and remorse. Lord Salisbury. up to the
end of December, had displayed the mean
ings to the dreibund.
By the beginning Of January his policy
had landed Great Britain in the arms Of
France, whose affections it was intended to
gain by the monstrous Siam convention
That state lasted about six weeks, and then
Lord Salisbury embarked in March to the
Soudan, which outrages France and throws
Great Britain back into the arms of tho
dreibund. Lord Rosebery proceeded In de-
tail to very strongly criticise the Nile expe-
dition.
Continuing, Lord Rosebery complained
of the indecision and failure OF the govern
ment to take the country into its conf
dence. He greatly feared that the govern
ment was fooling itself as we'll a. the
country. Was it the time, he asked, when
we were menaced with complications in ali
quarters of the world, to scatter our forces
into the deserts of the Soudan in war
which nobody could foresee the end Of, and
TO waste the money which Egypt needed
for great irrigation works2
The remainder of the speech was de-
voted to home politics.