Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-19
ENGLAND is AMAZED.
Lord Salisbury's Belligerent Speech
the Sole Topic of Con-
VerSat.on.

! London. May IL Lord Salisbury adj
dressed the members of the Primrose
/ league on Wednesday, but the drift of his
meaning has not yet filtered into British
! minds The remarkable utterancCs of
! the premier on that occa sion continue TO
/ form almost the sole topic of couVprSa-
/ ton, though editorial writer's quickly
/ gave up the attempt to aualyze for the
/ benefit of the pubic the numerous fca-
! lures OF the speech and were well-nigh
staggered into silence by its battling un-
cXpectedncss and the multiplicity OF the
issues IT contained. II was delivered
/ when the nation expected just the oppo-
site kind of remarks. TO implorc his
/ countrymen To awake to the dangers
greatly menacing their great empire and
! ITS interests at a time when they had
/ got over their iuhilation at Lord Rob
trtS success was violating the first prin-
clpleS Of politics, especially considering
/ The approach Of the elections Some Of
! Lord Salisbury own supporters believe
/ he was almost off his head when he
/ spoke
Bury the Political Ratchet,
Not content with this he pulled down
every pretty fabric that had been built
around the Queens visit to Ireland, calm
I ~ comparing the present efforts to obtain
home rule to Boer conspiracy and hos.
I tilIty. And this after the Queen and
every leading member of Lord Sails
hurys own cabinet and party had been
at particular pains to bury the political
Ratchet. Moreover, the whole tone Of
( the speech lacked all of the f0rmalitics
/ rcticencies and yelled illusions to which,
the English people have been accustomed
since the days of Palmerston. Lord
Salisbury heretofore had followed such
precedenjs, but on Tuesday he spoke to
/ the country as he might to an intimate
friend AFTER dinner. SO amusing and So
amazing has Lord Salisbury been him
SELF this week that the most important,
most sensational part of the speech has
passed unuotlced. Were the premier Of
any other European state to get IN in
/ these times Of wars and rumurs Of wars
and urge the people of an cmpre
TO accustom themselves to the use Of
/ firearms and establish rife clubs in every
village and hamlCr. there would run
. through Europe such a shiyer Of fright
and such vivid anticipation Of hostile in
tontlonS Of devastating conflict the mar
kets would drop by decades and mobiliza-
ton plans would be at the finger tips of
every war minister
Talking Through His Hat.
That this has not occurred seems to bc
due To the generally accepted fact that
Salisbury is more of II uhiIosouhpr than
Statesman and tina: when he graphically
painted the hostility TO England the
world over he was speaking purely in the
abstract without harboring in his mind
one concrete instance whereby that hos
tlhty might become menace. 4 curious
incident connected with the parade of
the Ladysmith naval brigade Of the
British cruiser Powerful was that the
decorating authorities almost smothercd
the officers of Lord Sitathcopa and
Mount Royal the Canadian high com
missioner, with the stars and stripes.
while on the outs de of the Unite States
re4atr
gn OF an American flag. Lord Strath
coma pointed out the uuSuitahiity Of the
prominence Of the stars and stripes and
n" number Of these emb!ems was re-
duced
The latest display Of British ingenuity
Is a new Bible j. *. Starley who do
ScrlbeS himself as a bicycle director Of
Coventry" has issued. under the auspices
Of the Sunday School Supply company.
a bible in which the New Testament pre-
cedcs the old. In the preface M. Star
ley jnStifies his action by saying the Old
Testament WAS meant TO be q candle
stick on which the new should stand"
adding Yet We have largely made the
old an eXtinguisher which puts out its
light"
ruece-s IF American jockeys.
Great Britain continues to be Devil
dered by the continual success az the
American jockeys aud vainly seeks an
explanation One Of the leading authori.
tIeS on English racing matters, however.
puts this in nutshell in an article IN
the Man If the World saying: our
English jockeys appear to have rclin-
pushed all efforts at competing with the
lndefailgIbie team Of transatlantic
horsemcn now with MS. Had some IL
Cur young aSpirants the energy and de
termination 10 yet 10 the front possessed
ny sloan. Martin Ref and company.
their chances Of success would be- con
siderahly Improved. At present they.
with some half a dozen exceptions. APP
pear absolutely paraiyzcd ~ the turn
things have taken. il was notable
fact that the brothers Rtif were first or
second in every race and only first and
s*rond respectively ar Hurst park last
~. 49, ~.