The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-05

agitation, until 1t commands public
attention. The newspapers are swamp
ed with communications, mass meet
ings 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 A. J. Bal
four, the government leader in the
mouse OF commons and first lord of the
treasury, perhaps personally the most
popular publicist, addressing his con-
stituents at Manchester on Monday
last, endeavored to ignore ritualism
and rethresh the stock themes of poll
tics. He was fairly hooted down His
auditors would not be silenced when,
by his suave, diplomatic manner, he
attempted to get around the subject
by remarking that no violations Of
church law had come to his attention
The audience Insisted that he declare
himself and the meeting broke up in a
manner very like a state of anarchy.
Later, an influential delegation called
on Mr.. Balfour and arraigned him for
advocating the establishment Of a
Catholic university in Ireland. He
responded that the scheme did not
represent the party, but only personal
views, and said:
1T is matter of indifference to me
whether remain in public life. It is
not a matter of Indifference If I am
prevented from expressing, even
against my own interests, the opinions
that I conscientiously hold"
The mass meeting of Wednesday,
which was not representative except
in the numbers attending, howled at
the names Of Lord Salisbury the arch
bishop Of Canterbury and the bishop
Of London, and demanded that ritual
istic clergymen be driven from the
church.
A curiously leading part in the agi-
tation is borne by the non-conformists,
and 1t is also noted that party lines
do not, though the majority Of the an
ti-ritualists are Liberals The high
church Conservatives have issued a
black list of sixty parliamentarians,
appealing to the voters to oppose them
if they support anti-ritualistic legisla-
ton.
The bishops bill, recently framed at
Lambeth palace (for over 600 years
the London residence of the archbish-
ops of Canterbury, and the Irish uni
versity proposals 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 to
travel
I The recent speech Of Gen. Stewart L.
Woodford, former United States min
lister to Spain, before the Army and
Navy club, at New Yory city, has been
applauded by all Englishmen and has
provoked divers comments. The moral.
most say, is that it helps the friendly
understanding between the two coun-
tries. The Saturday Review, which is
always sneering at Americans, says:
''It shows President Mckinley In a
friendly light, since he posed as a
friend Of peace while really playing a
cat and mouse policy to exhaust the
arts of peace until he could get ready
for war. Englishmen cannot take
pride in the acknowledgement that the
cat on the pounce was successful be-
cause of the loyal friendship of Eng
land Such loyalty comes near to dis
loyalty. There is something more pre-
cious than American friendship"
Justice David J. Brewer, associate
justice of the United States supreme
court, who is returning home on the
Cunard steamer Etruria, from his first
visit abroad, to attend the preliminary
meeting of the Venezuelan arbitration
commission at Paris said today:
From the public men I have met
here and from others I have heard only
the most cordial feeling expressed to-
ward the United States. So far as I
have been able to judge from my brief
visit the French are quite as friendly
towards the United States as the Eng
lish I shall return with Chief Justice
Fuller in May, and anticipate passing
a most pleasant summer in Paris.''
In reply to question, Justice Brewer
said:
81 know it is being discussed abroad
whether the United States, in acquir-
ing colonies, does not invalidate the
Monroe doctrine; but Venezuela now
has nothing to do with the doctrine 1t
has the status of a lawsuit"