The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

create in the mind of the British public and
to guage the task confronting the Govern
ment at the forthcoming session of Parlia-
ment 1t is first necessary to realize the
stupendous change that in the last few
weeks has taken place I'm the national char
acter. To put 1t briefly, since the British
army In the field has found the Boer army
was its match or more, the British nation
has become one huge stock exchange, not
In material sense. but In sencf
nation, a whole, governs its opinions
by the happenings Of the hour, vacillating
according to the news ticker in it's tradi-
tions OF centuries, as easily as the most
nervous market that ever operated in times
of uncertainty. Nothing so adequately lends
itself 10 ready and forceful simile of the
prevailing temper of the British nation as
the popular conception of the stock market.
As on the floor there is a cerlain small
per cent. with such huge interests at stake
that they are never budged by rumors that
make or break the smaller fry But these
compose the very inmost ring and their
exciusiveness may be judged from the fact
that one never knows when opening from
day to day. such solid and conservative
journals as the Times, the Morning Post or
the Standard, whether they will uphold or
bitterly abuse the Government. In like
manner does the majority of the public
opinion sway as famed by the news from
the front. Thus it is well-nigh impossible
TO determine the real feeling toward the
Administration and the war. and it is still
harder to forecast the result of the debates
In Parliament.
Yet, In spite of this tremendous vacilla-
ton, the information which reports of the
Associated Press have gathered from all
sorts of sources, tends toward the impress
sion that Lord Salisbury will continue not
only in power, but in the matter of votes,
with but slightly diminished control,
which is tantamount to saying that the
war against the Beers will be pursued TO
the bitter end, regardless of foreign inter-
ference and whimperings at home.
The selection by the War Office of Mai
Gen. Sir Frederick Darlington for service
at the front calls out the comment that the
government has recognized this officials
claims at a very late day, considering the
fact that his name is most favorably
known in South Africa, where he spent al
most his whole military career as a leader
of expeditions. While Sir Frederick Car
rington's billet is at present mystery to
the English press, the correspondent of the
Associated Press is able to say that ii was
not, after all, at the initiative of the War
Office that he was called, and further that
he will be intrusted with what will be prac-
tically an Independent command of large
proportions and will attempt to achieve by
means of one of the most Heterogeneous
forces ever gathered on the face of the
earth the gallant objective hitherto held
by the commanders in the field to be an i'm
possibility.
/ Unless Ladysmith Is quickly relieved the
international situation promises to be of
more interest than the actual operations.
The seizure of another German vessel, fol-
lowing so closely Count Won Buelow's busi-
ness-like speech in the Reichstag yesterday,
will produce at least keen international
press war and rumors damaging to steamer
values II nothing more. though the dis
crepancy between Count Won Buelow's
speech in Germany and the representations
OF the German ambassador in London, the
latter being extremely conciliatory, form a
reassuring circumstance.