The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-05
The Old War Cry Of mo Popery' Sud-
denly UsuTps First Place.
Overrides Party Programs, Forcing
Leaders Who Prefer to Divorce
the Church From Parliamentary
Strife to Declare Themselves
Balfour Howled Down for En-
deavoring to Ignore RituaHsm
in a Speech at Manchester.


on the eve Of the reassembling of Par
lament, show that the old war cry of
mo Popery," so long silent, has sud-
denly usurped first place. 1t is over
riding party programs, and forcing lea
ders who prefer to divorce the church
from parliamentary strife to declare
themselves.
The movement was started last sum-
mer by a then unknown bookseller
named John Kensit, who Englishmen
rated as Americans did Coxey. II
gathered momentum through the low
churchist agitation, until it now doml-
mates public attention. The news
papers are swamped with communica-
tions, mass meetings are being organ
lied everywhere, and the voters are in
sisting that their representatives an
ncunce their views.
How fiercely the. people are wrought
up was hardly realized until A. j. Bal
four, the Government leader in the
House of Commons, and First Lord OF
the Treasury. perhaps personally the
most popular publicist, addressing ms
constituents at Manchester on Monday
last, endeavored to ignore ritualism ana
rethresh the stock themes of politics.
He was fairly howled down. His audi
tors would not be silenced when, IN
his suave, diplomatic manner, he at
tempted to slide around the subject Dy
remarking that no violations of church
law had come to his attention. The
audience insisted that he should declare
himself, and the meeting broke up in a
manner very like state of anarchy.
On Wednesday an influential delega-
ton called on Mr.. Balfour and ar
raigned him for advocating the estab-
lishment of a Catholic University IN
Ireland He replied that the scheme
did not represent the party, but only
personal views. and said: 1T is a
matter of Indifference to me whether
! remain in public life. 1t is not
matter of indifference if I am prevented
from expressing, even against my own
interests, the views / conscientiously
hold
The mass meeting of Wednesday,
which was not representative save n
the numbers attending, hooted the
names of Lord Salisbury, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of
London. and demanded that ritualistic
clergymen be driven from the church
A curiously leading part in the agi-
tation is borne by the non-conformlsts
ard II is also noted that party lines
do rot hold, though the majority of the
anti-ritualists are Liberals. The high
church Conservatives have issued a
blacklist of sixty parliamentarians, APP
pealing to the voters to oppose them IL
they support anti-ritualistic legislation
The Bishops bill. recently framed at
Lambeth Palace flor over 600 years
the London residence of the Arcn-
bishops of Canterbury, and the Irish
University proposal furnish the bones
of contention. The latter had the mis-
fortune to be brought forward when
the religious strife was most heated,
and is likely to have a hard road 10
travel.
The recent speech of General Stewart
l.. Woodford, formerly United States
Minister to Spain, before the Army and
Navy Club at New York City, has been
applauded by all EngIishmen. and has
provoked diverse comments. The most
of them declare that it helps the friend
~ understanding between the two ma
ticns.
The saturday Review" which is al
ways sneering at America, says: 1T
shows President Mckinley in an ur-
favorable light, since he posed as the
friend OF peace While really playing a
Ca. and mouse policy to exhaust the
arts of peace until he could get ready
for war"
The ..Globe" says. "Our moral sup
port o. the United States has been of
incalcrlable value to them by their own
admission. In return we require some
thing more .han Admiral Dewey's pla-
tonic APPROX al of the civilizing mission
of England"
The paper then proceeds to demand
more assistance in China than hereto
fore, and that British commerce should
mot be excluded from territories whose
acquisition has been facilitated by Eng
lands action by tariffs"
Judge David j. Brewer, Associate
Justice Of the United States Supreme
Court. who is returning home on the
Cunard line steamer Etruria after his
first visit abroad to attend the prelim-
irary meeting of the Venezuelan Arbi-
tration Commission. said to-day 20 a
representative of the Associated Press:
From the public men / have met
here and from others / have heard
only the most cordial feeling expressed
toward the United States. So far as
have been able to judge from my brief
visit, the French are quite as friendly
toward the United States as the Eng
lish. / shall return with Chief Justice
Fuller in May, and anticipate passing
most pleasant summer in Paris. =
In replying to a question Justice
Brewer said: Il know it is being dis
cussed abroad whether the United
States in acquiring colonies does not
invalidate the Monroe doctrine. 1t has
the status of a lawsuit"
Great Britain's business boom keeps
pace with that of the United States.
Not in ten years has there been such
general prosperity in business and
stocks. Aside from the South African
boom, which maintains its strength un-
expectedly, gold shares, are higher than
at the hight Of the boom of 1895. This
feeling of confidence may be expected
to continue If the parliamentarians re-
frain from attempting to goad Lord
Salisbury to belligerent action. as dur