The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-14
British in No HumOr For Light
hearted Remarks.
IS TINE FOR MOURNING
ENGLAND Is NOW FACING A
SERIOUS CRISIS.
Changes in the British Cabinet
Ave Urged-All Hopes Pinned on
Lords Roberts and Kitchener
Greatest Honors Promised Them
If They Are Victorious.

Ca-rreht. 1900 by the Associated Press.)
London. Jan. 12-The trivolity dis
,rarsI In his recent speeches by Mr..
p.four. the government leader in the
b,rz- Of commons, has landed what has
taar known as the Strongest govern
,r-rf of modern times in the slough
nom which extrr-qtion is difficult if
MT doubtful. His Isgat- he-rted remarks
which were pleasantly accepted by the
nation when times were good and all
mas We'll. are offensive to people
Mourning for lost sons and deeply an
r.-aT hv the unprecedented reVerseS-
Mr. EaIfdur. if he had tried. could
rar have more successfully put his
-.ur-rvmen on edge, and when Lord
salisbury speaks ne win have much
,5.tau- for. The memory Of Mr. Cham
ba--8fU-s alliance speech was dying
away before Mr.. BalfOur put his loot
s-H deeper i'm the mire. The cOnserva-
+sye- hope that Mr.. BalfOur VII follow
FIR Chamberlain example AID keep
a discreet silence. As the Saturday Re
view. one OF the government g stauncn-
r- supporters, puts it, the admin.stra-
-f.7 Is now face 10 face not with the
opposition but with the nation. 1T IS
"a crisis out of which several must come
with regulations smirched, and may
nae-.bIv result in the wreck of the
government. In any case recon
gruction of the cabinet seems newt
able.
Urges Cabinet Changes.
The Spectator protests against max
ire Mr. BalfOur the sCapegOat a. de-
cares that though Lord Salisbury is
Still! the Wisest mind in the empire. 1t Is
IMPOSSIBLE for him TO continue much
LONGER both as prime minister and for
eisn secretary. 1t advocates his re-
taHtion at the head of the foreign Of
flee and the appointment of Mr.. Bal
four as premier, the Marquis Of Lans-
d0vue being succeeded at the war Of
flee by II. Arnold Forester.
The same paper. graVeiy reviewing
the serious military condition or the
country advocates an elaborate plan
frr home defenss including a volunteer
army. recruited from civilians and zor-
mer soldiers, which would not actually
De- called ont except in case O5 ipTasion.
but which would form a nucleus 10 en-
able the standing army to be sent
abroad without gUalms.
III we are TO escape consumption.
says the Outlook, ''the public must be
educated TO take a more serious, dis
eliminating and self-sdcrihCing inter-
e-t In the army"
In the meanwhile. the Associated
Press learns. Lord Salisbury does not
mean to be inactive He believes the
salvation of Great Britain's military
system depends on General Lord Kit
Cheuer. in whom he has long had i'm
pig.y faith.
Honors Are Promised.
Tt has already been planned that if
Lords Roberts and Kitchener bring the ]
camDaieu 10 a successful termination.
the latter viii be brought home to I
h1l0rs almost equal to those of the I
Duke Of Wellington. He viii be put /
into the war Office and viii be given a 4
free hand to brush away the cObwebs /
which clog the British army.
Lord Roberts, Of course, VIII not be /
neglected., but then he would be too old |
l-r such work as is outlined for Lord /
Kitchener Perhaps before this can be ]
accomplished Lord Salisbury win be I
ou Of power and Lord Kitchener viii /
De lls.-ediIed. but upon such Tehabil- /
ltatiun by means of a young and bril- 1
Ian. agent has the heart of the British 1
Premier been set u remains to be seen
N7e.her fate VIII enable him TO carry /
IL out
The extremist view is well voiced in /
q publ. letter written by Henry 4
h.O-alrrH- Oiberal labor member of 4
la."Hueut for leicester, formerly sec {
i.--IE u, the parliamentary committee (
OF .la trades union congress. in which .
De says.