The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
OLD WAR CRY RAISED
ANTI-RITUALIsTS IN ENGLAND WOR-
RYING PARTY LEADERS.
"NO POppery'' Their Slogan, and They
Are Making Themselves Heard
at Every Opportunity.
BRITAIN'S BUSINESS BOOM
JOHN BULL PROSPERING AS WELL AS
BROTHER JONATHAN.
DisraeIi's Dishonesty Exposed by
Publication of the Late Sir Rob-
ert PeeI's correspondence.

Copyright 1892 by the Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 4-Brtish politics, on the
eve of this reassembling of Parliament, show
that the old war cry of mo Popery' so
long silent, has suddenly usurped first place.
1t is overriding party programmes and fore
ing leaders who prefer to divorce the church
from parliamentary strife to declare them
selves The movement was started last
summer by a then unknown book seller
ramed John Kensit, whom Englishmen
rated as Americans did Coxey. 1t gathered
momentum through the low churchists' agi-
tation until it now dominates public atten-
ton. The newspapers are swamped with
communications mass meetings are being
organized everywhere and the voters are
insisting that their representatives announce
their views.
How fiercely the people are wrought up
was hardly realized until Mr.. A. ]. Balfour,
the government leader in the House of Com
mons and first lord Of the treasury, perhaps
personally the most popular publicist, adj
dressing his constituents at Manchester, on
Monday last. endeavored to ignore ritualism
and rethresh the stock themes of politics.
lie was fairly howled down. His auditors
would not be silenced when, in his suave
diplomatic manner, he attempted to 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 manner very like state Of
anarchy.
On Wednesday an Influential delegation
called on Mr. Balfour and arraigned him
for advocating the establishment of a Cath
Ole university in Ireland. He replied that
the scheme did not represent the party, but
only personal views, and Said 1T is mat
ter of indifference to me whether 1 remain
In public life. 1t is not a matter of indiffer-
ence if ! am prevented from expressing.
even against my own interests, the views l
conscientiOusly hold"
The mass meeting of Wednesday, which
was not representative save in numbers at
tending hOOted the names OF Lord Sails
bury. the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Bishop of London, and demanded that rltu-
allstlc ciergymen pc driven from the cnuTch.
A curiously leading part In the agitation
IS borne by the nonconformists, and ii is
also noted that party lines do not hold,
though the majority OF the antl-ritualiStS
are Liberals The High Church Conserva-
tives have issued blacklist of sixty par
iamentarians, appealing to the voters TO
oppose them If they support anu-ritualistic
legislation. The bishops bill, recently
framed at Lambeth Palace (for over six
hundred years the London residence of the
Archbishops of Canterbury, and the Irish
university proposal. furnish the bones of
contention. The latter had the misfortune
TO be brought forward when the religious
strife was most heated, and is likely to have
hard road to travel;
The recent speech of General Stewart L.
Woodford, former United States minister to
Spain before the Army and Navy Club at
New York city. has been applauded by all
Englishmen and has provoked divers COM
ments. The moral most of them draw is that
IT helps the friendly understanding between.
the two countries.
The Saturday Review, which is always
sneering at America, says: 1T shows Presi-
dent Mckinley in an unfavorable 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 knowledge that the cat on the
pounCe was successful because of the loyal
friendship OF England Such loyalty comes
near to dslOyalty. There is something more
precious than American friendship"
The Globe says: Our moral support of the
United States has been Of incalculable value
to them, by their own admission. In re-
turn we require something more than Ad-
miral Dewey's platonic approval of the civil
izing mission of England" The paper then
China than heretofore and that British COM
merce should mot be excluded from terri
tories whose acquisition has been facilitated
by Engiands action. by tariffs
Judge David j. Brewer, associate justice
Of the United States Supreme Court, who is
returning home on the Cunard line steamer
Etiuria after his first visit abroad to at
tend the preliminary meeting of the Vene-
zuelan arbitration commission, said to-day
10 a representative Of the Associated Press