The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
Harcourt's Speech Is the Sensa-
ton of the Week.
A DUEL FOR LEADERSHIP
His Attack on Roseberry Grossly Unjust
and Slanderous-Hatred Amounted
to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Inva-
sion of England.
COPYRIGHT 1899 by Associated Press.

expressed a wish for the revival OF the
old liberal spirit, has proved an ora
torical apple of discord of the first or
der. It has elected a virulent reply
from Sir William Vernon Harcourt in
a speech before the Devonshire club, i
which has been the political sensation
of the week. Sir Williams speech bore
witness to the bitterness of the duel
for the leadership of the liberal party
between himself and Lord Roseberry.
In the course of Sir William Vernon
Harcourt's speech he declared that Lord
Roseberry's words were tantamount to
the advice, Take a sponge and wipe
out the glorious Inheritance which Mr..
Gladstone left the party. before his
ashes are cold"
The liberal organs have taken up the
cudgel in behalf of Lord Roseberry
and talk to Harcourt very straight.
The Speaker calls his Interpretation of
Lord Roseberry's words: "A most alb
surd and malicious classification of his
meaning and the worst example in re-
cent years of downright misrepresen-
tation." -.
The British Weekly says Iarcourt's
attack was grossly unjust and SANDER
Gus and only to be accounted for BY
rancor of hatred amounting almost to
madness
The mouthpieces of the liberal party
insist that Lord Roseberry, in urging
a return to the liberalism of 1886, did
not mean a change of programme. but
a return to the party discipline and CO.
hesion that existed in the halcyon days
of liberalism. Sir William Vernon Har-
court to-day announced thai he will
speak to his constituents on May "a.
keenest interest and another speech in
his best fighting style is expected.
Meanwhile the conservative press inter-
prets Roseberry as Harcourt does, and
in some quarters the opinion is ex-
pressed that Roseherry's utterances
are nothing less than a direct bid for
Joseph Chamberlain and a prelude to
Roseberry's identifying himself with
the liberal unionists.
The Sun says that Lord Roseberry's
abandonment and his acceptance of the
liberal unionist programme might. in
the event of a conservative victory at
the next election, possibly be marked
by the Offer and his acceptance of
| cabinet rank.
The English press publicly abstains
| from comments on the latest phase of
affairs in the Philippines. Filipinos in
London insist that there is no proba
bility of success of the peace negoti-
|
other hand, from well informed En-
| gllsh sources, it is stated that the re-
| bellon must end shortly.
The Americans in their latest opera
! tons have occupied the whole of the
Tagal country and Aguina1do and his
colleagues have now been driven to the
| Rampambang country, the people of
which are quite distinct from the
Tagals and certainly cannot be relied
upon to support Aguna lido
The Well-knoWn leader George N.
| Barnes, secretary of the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers has taken up the
question of the American locomotive
invasion of Great Britain, and this week
has Issued a statement denying that the
recent engineering strike had anything
to do with the purchase of American
engines. Mr.. Barnes says the fact is
that British labor has been and still is
kept so fully employed supplying all
the world from China to Peru, that no
time is spent to supply English rail-
roads. He then descants upon the lati-
tude allowed American as compared
with English contractors.
Mr.. Barnes quotes official figures
showing a steady increase in the value
of English exports of locomotives from
S42, $50 pounds in 1898 to 1,4S2, 759 pounds
in 1898, and concludes: 1.-The great ad-
vantage enjoyed by America arises
from the Capitalization of American in
dustry. Capitalization and specializa-
ton are giving an enormous advantage
to American firms and, inasmuch as
they are entirely on the line of progress
we would welcome them here
One of the features of the annua
meeting of the Congregational unior
here this week was an AngIb-Americar
demonstration on Thursday, when ar
American delegate, Rev. DR.. Judsor
, Smith, aroused intense enthusiasm BY
an eloquent address, in the course O.
which he touched upon Americas graft
tude for England's support at critica
moment. DR.. Smith said:
Whatever friction or irritation there
may have been in the past, that is al
over now. We hope to prove at ever.
| time and in every emergency a frient
' to England, as England proved oul
friend
, DR., Fairbairn warmly welcomed DR.
v Smiths utterance and expressed conf
, dence that Americas new departur,
= meant the growth of a new religious
h | impetus, a new divine passion in tn,
. | policies of the world.
), Archbishop Ireland of ST. Paul mad
0 most favorable impression by his ora
= ton at the Joan of Arc ceremony at Or
leans Monday and has been asked t,
deliver a panegyric on st. Clotilde to
;, The Paris Debats highly compli
II ments Archbishop Ireland on his elo
!, quence and marvellous acquaintanc
/; with the French tongue, adding:
: Archbishop Ireland has wealth O
|, language and a variety of CORRECTNESS
e in the use of expressions which eve
a many Frenchmen do not possess an
=. he is capable, with his bold evangeli
l. cal ideas, of stirring great multi
|; tudes.'
is The Daily Chronicle characterizes a
l. remarkable utterance, this sentenc
= in Archbishop Ireland's panegyric:
= Let us, by all means, be careful nc
to take away an iota from the faitf
but let us also take care not to add t
it ideas and interpretations which ar
lie binding upon nobody"
= This" says the Chronicle "is eS
y actiy what so many Roman Cathoii
|; churchmen are always prone to do. TIL
- struggle of Archbishop Ireland and hi
r American friends against these force
e, of reaction is an interesting episod