The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-05
NO .POPERY IS THE CRY
It Has Usurped the First Place
in England.
BALFoUR HOWLED DOWN
Mass Meetings Are Being Organised All
Over the Countrywide Question Is
Overriding Party Platforms
Cat and Mouse Policy.
Copyright 1899 by Associated press.

London, Feb. 4.-British politics, on
the evening Of the reassemblfng of par
lament. show that the old war cry of
No popery," so long silent, has sudden
~ usurped first place. It is overriding
party programmes and forcing leaders,
who prefer to divorce the church from
parliamentary strife, to declare them
selves. The movement was started
last summer by then unknown book
seller named John Kensit, who Eng
lishmen rated as Americans did Coxey.
1t gathered momentum through the low
church agitation until it now dominates
public attention. The newspapers are
swamped with communications, mass
meetings are being organized every
where, and the voters are insisting that
their representatives announce their
views. How fiercely the people are
wrought up was hardly realized until
a. j. Balfour, the government leader
In the house of commons and first lord
of the treasury, perhaps personally the
most popular publicist, addressing his
constituents at Manchester on Monday
last. endeavored to ignore ritualism and
re-thresh the stock themes of politics.
ors would not be silenced, when, in his
suave, diplomatic manner, he attempted
slide around the subject by 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 arraign-
fnr I'D Hnor No
ment of Catholic university in Ire
land. He replied that the scheme did
not represent the party, but only per-
sonal views, and said:
ut is a. matter Of indifference to me
whether ! remain in public life. 1t is
not matter of indifference IL I am
prevented from expressing. even against
my own interests, the views l con-
scientiously hold.
The mass-meeting of Wednesday,
which was not representative save in
the numbers attending, hootad the
names of Lord Salisbury, the archbish-
op OF Canterbury and the bishop of
London, and demanded that ritualistic
clergymen be driven from the church.
A curiously leading partin the agita-
ton Is borne by the non-conformists
that 1T is also noted that party lines
do not hold, though the majority of
a
church conservatives have issued
blacklist of 60 parliamentarians, APP
pealing to the voters to oppose them If
they support anti-ritualistic legislation.
The bishops bill, recently framed at
Lambeth palace (for over 900 years the
London residence of the archbishop of
Canterbury, and the Irish university
proposal furnish the bones Of conten-
ton. The latter had the misfortune
to be brought forward when the re-
ligious strife was most heated and is
likely to have hard road to travel.
The recent speech of General Stew
art l.. Woodford, former minister to
Spain, before the Army and Navy club
at New York has been applauded by all
Englishmen and has provoked diverse
comments. The most of them declare
that it helps the friendly understand
ing between the two nations.
The Saturday Review, which is always
sneerng at America, says: TT shows
President Mckinley in an unfavora BILE
light, since he posed as the friend of
peace, while really playing a cat-and-
mouse policy to exhaust the arts of
peace until he could get ready for war"
1t adds: "Englishmen cannot take
pride in the knowledge that the cat on
the pounce was successful because of
the loyal friendship of England. Such
loyalty comes near to disloyalty. There
is something more precious than Amer
lean friendship"
The Globe says: 'Our moral sup
port of the United States has been of
incalculable value, by their own adj
mission. In return we require some
thing more than Admiral Dewey's pla-
tonic approval of the civilizing mis-
sion 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 friendliness'
The papers are daily reiterating their
warnings of the past two months that
American stocks are destined to a
speedy fall.
Society anticipates brilliant, though
late, season. The milliners and mod
istes are preparing for great business,
particularly with Americans, of whom
more are expected than for years, on
account of the era of prosperity in the
United States. There is an unusual
pressure for presentations at the first
drawing room on Feb. "a. Queen Vic
toria, who Is appearing yearly with
less frequency, hopes to personally re-
ceive the diplomatic corps.
The phenomenal number of transfers
of West End houses, resulting from
deaths and the prices offered by South
African and Australian colonists, are
inducing notabilities to sell outright
Among the noteworthy leases is that of
Mrs Ogden Goelet, who has secured
Lord Wilborn's mansion on Arlington
street, and Charles Keyer's lease of the
dowager Duchess of Marlboros house
on Grosvenor square.