Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-05-15
= al NEWS OF EUROPE.
Fight For the Liberal Leadership
Promises to BE Bitter.
ROSEBERY TO BE IN CABINET?

The American Locomotive Invasion
OF observation-disclosures TrOu-
bles In Russia-Other News
of Interest.
London, May 15.-Lord Rosebery's
speech before the London Liberal club
on May s, in the course of which he eX-
pressed wish for the revival Of the
old Liberal spirit, has proved an ora
torical apple of discord of the first or
der. 1t has elected a virulent reply
from Sir William Vernon Harcourt in a
speech before the Devjnshire club,
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 be-
tween himself and Lord Rosebery and
to the pent up personal feeling of the
speaker against Lord Rosebery, who
was responsible for his temporary eff
Placement. In the course of his speech
Sir William Vernon Harcourt declared
that Lord Rosebery's words were tanta-
mount to the advice, Take a sponge
and wipe out the glorious inheritance
which Mr.. Gladstone left the party be-
fore his ashes are cold"
The Liberal organs have taken up
the cudgels in behalf of Lord Rosebery
and talk to Harcourt very straight.
The Speaker calls his Interpretation of
Lord Rosebery's words "a most absurd
and malicious Justification of his mean
ing and the worst example in recent
years of downright ton"
The British Weekly says Harcourt's at
tack was grossly unjust and slanderous
and only to be accounted for by a ran
cor of hatred amount ng almost to mad
ness. Other mouthp;eccs of the Liberal
party insist that Lord Rosebery in urg-
ing a return to the Liberalism of 1888
did not mean a change of programme,
but return to the party discipline and
cohesion that existed in the halcyon
days of the party. Sir William Vernon
Harcourt announces that he will speak
to his constituents on May a. His ut
terances are awaited with the keenest
interest, and another speech in his best
fighting style is expected. Meanwhile
the Conservative press interprets Rose
berry as HarcOurt does, and in some
quarters the opinion is expressed that
Rosebery's utterances are nothing less
than direct bid for Mr. Joseph Cham
berlain and prelude to Rosebery iden-
tifying himself with the Liberal Union
lists.
Perhaps q Bid For Cabinet Honors.
The Sun says that Lord Rosebery's
abandonment and his explicit accept
ance of the Liberal Unionist programme
might, in the event of Conserva tive
victory at the next elections, possibly be
marked by the offer and his acceptance
of cabinet rank.
The English press practically abstains
from comment upon the latest phase of
affairs in the Philippine Islands. Fill
pinos in London insist that there is no
probability of success of the peace ne
gotiations at Manila, and yet, on the
other hand, from well informed Eng
fish sources it is stated that the re-
bellion must end shortly. The Ameri-
cans by their latest operations have oc-
cupied the whole of the Tagal country
and Agunaldo and his colleagues have
now been driven to the Pampambang
country, the people of which are quite
distinct from the faEals and certainly
cannot be relied upon to support Agui-
naldO.
N. Barnes, secretary of the Amalga-
mated Society of Engineers. has taken
up the question of the American loco
motive invasion of Great Britain and
has issued a statement denying that
the recent engineering strike had any
thing to do with the purchase of Amer
lean engines. Mr.. Barnes says the fact
is that British labor has been and still
to t,,11 =,
the world from China to Peru that no
time is left to supply English railroads.
He then descants upon the latitude all
lowed American as compared with
English contractors. Mr.. Barnes quotes
official figures showing a steady in
crease in the value of English exports
OF locomotives from GS42,C60 in 1893 to
Ell 1852, 159 in 1898 and concludes: "The
great advantage enjoyed by American
producers arises from the Capitalization
Of industry. American combines, what
ever their temporary result on the
status of workmen. have certainly re-
suited In the more economical use of
labor. Capitalization and specialization
are giving an enormous advantage to
American firms, and inasmuch as they
are entirely on the line of progress we
would welcome them here"
AnEIO-Americnn Good Feeling.
One of the features of the annual
meeting of the Congregational union
last week was an o-American
| demonstration on Thursday, when an
American delegate the Rev. Dr. Jud-
son Smith, aroused intense enthusiasm
by an eloquent address, in the course of
which he touched upon Americas graf
| itude for England's support at a critical