The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Il, CHARLES BERBsFoRD rs
-.w1Ne UP THE NATION.

-, 70 Raise the STANDARD OF Teaching
Id, Attack On the stage ana Aotsrs.
,,vngS. Dec. so.-Just now. and not for the
,,rs the most prominent mar In England
u'..hans. Lord Charles Bcresford. BY the
hray nj. intimate friend, Sir Frank Lock
oeet, ,ns House OF Commons was robbed OF one
W. y. most popular members, and 1t is moro than
@ ~ that he will DO replaced by q still moro
pv.,s, man In the person Of Bercsford. Lock-
WV =, course, belonged to the Liberal oppo-
wv" '. and Beresford is nov seeking to win his
~. a. the Unionlst party. Thanks to his per
e.,,,, tho Government 10 likely TO score at
~ ,.ts one success to counterbalanoe the
wy, r.bufs 1t has experienced at the other
bytelections.
o.n, n Lord Charles should DO successful. the
,~s..rment's delight will not DO entirely with.
y, ,llor. Beresford is q man Of bold and indo-
Vs.a,nt spirit and we'll calculated TO act a.
ri, candid friend to his party. Speaking az
~. er,t meeting In York last night, he declared
~, h. was standing because he thought that
,s,ro. generally for this country were looking
~, black. and that any independentminded
.,,n who could put his viows clearly and
.,,orrly before the people might do q great deal
otrood at the present moment.
.cls.r" and "strong" undoubtedly will DO
~. words of this bluff sailor should he again
sra himself in the House Of Commons. York 10
,hs for,y.seventh constituency that has asked
h,r IN represent them. and so important Is his
o,ndida,ure considered that the press 10 already
srgpesting the possibility that his outspoken
.l,rtion addresses may force the Government
,r,o action before 1t would otherwise have
moved, especially in the East.
In his speech last night ho eaid that for the
.In,t ten years people had been thinking of
uothing but trade and making money This
u,souitc right. but whilo they had been doing
4, they ought TO have secured that they should
always DO able to get q return for their money
and that British possessions were adequately
defended all over the world. That this
had not been done tho enormous increase
in the naval budgets Of recent years
,lsarly showed. with regard to the
army" he said, "there was no doubt In
ths world that the system as 1t was had failed"
And be congratulated Lord Lansdowne, the
Minister for War. as being tho frst Minister he
rsmcmbercd 90 who had not represented the case
OF the British public In the usual Rule Britain
mia style. They might SEQ by the confession Of
the Minister for War how bad the army was"
He next dealt with the subject of the mercan-
tile marine, saying:
Tho nosition at this moment was this-that In
III, mercantile marine of this great empire there
-sr. ,bout 80 600 seanen. and vet IL we went
,ov,r a, short were wa of proper men for the
nav, that wa should have to take %. O of
,ho:s men IN helm tn man the feet. What he
wanted to know in that event was. How was
,bs mercantile shippine to be manned But
,h,, vos M, ali In the mercantile marine over
an Nor cent. of the seamen were foreigners, and
1hsn war v,s declared. owing to the force
NJ conscrint,on. n number of them would return
N their own country and if there WAS any grit
IN the rest If tbom they would collar the ship
and take n over to their own country too,
Turning IN foreign affairs. he said he had come
,o"a mart which ia black from every point of
tho comnass" Tho state of affairs in the far
r,,, In rh;no bo ,,oLed unon ma very ,armin
s0ra noon,. WIGHT cali Il very interesting. The
.;,rs,ion IN rerv fev months had been en-.
,,,.,v ,,,.rod Russio had gone To a nlace that
coma no made a very strong naval basis-
,,m.,r port p, bur Germany had gone Tn an.
other MACE more or less in the same locality. hut
ENGLAND had done nothing at present. A policy
~ iso,,t,on vas a most charming poIicv n we
could trust To other countries fighting among
tbsmse,ves but q was most inoonvenient II ali
Tho nfhar rnlnfrina 1nlnA6 ARAlnAt IN and IhaE
WAS what annarently might occur. II It did
occpr Il wopid be n very crave state of Affairs.
and bs declored that. Great Britain must either
amend a vast amount of money ON making its
d.,snces eoral IN what thew sbould be with n
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