The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT.
TALK UNABATED, BUT NOTHING sE-
RIOUs EXPECTED.

Forthcoming When Parliament
Meets-ROsebery still Maintains
His POwer-Measures of Censure
Expected From Irish Members
British Realize That They Under
estimated the Enemy.
Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 27.-Though criticism of
the government and its methods Of hand |
ling the war is unabated, it is safe to say
that when Parliament meets Tuesday
next, nothing serious will result.
There will be the usual motions of GEN.
sure, with perhaps more than usually i'm
passioned denunciations of the various de-
partments of the administration, especial
ly the war and colonial offices. But
such is the patriotism of the average Eng
lishman and the strength of the conserva-
tive organization that it will be surprising
if Lord Salisbury's majority is even ap~
preciably weakened.
This mere tally of votes. however. must
not be construed as a real index of ma
tional feeling, for many a man will go
to the government lobby, who, outside
has privately declared some one ought to
be hanged for administration, and that
if Lord Salisbury did not disasaociate him
self from the system or culprits response
BILE for the national humiliation, he must
eventually take the consequences.
The inner circles of the government are
perfectly wen aware of such an eventual
ity, but they have no fears for the imme-
date future, implicitly believing in a sue
cessful climax of the war, and trusting it
viii offset the initial blunders
Another cogent reason for prophesylng
| that the session will be barren of changes
affecting the balance of power is that
the opposition, apparently is hopelessly
divided. Nothing showed this better than
Mr. John Morley's speech at Forfar, Jan.
a. when, for the first time, he publicly
sneered at Lord Rosebery, who numbers
among his devoted adherents such brii-
| liant Liberals as Mr. II. II. Asquth and
| Sir Edward Grey.
Rosebery Equal to Occasion.
! Lord Rosebery's magnificent speech this
| week and the speeches which he has re-
! Gently delivered have been convincing men
| of all parties of his eXecutional breadth
| Of mind, patriotism and ability to face
| a rational crisis sanely; and, perhaps il
| is not stretching the bow TO say he to-
| day commands British confidence to
greater extent than Lord Salisbury. Yet
! it is impossible for the Liberals to unite
on him, and as the Saturday Review Gays
he is so admirable out OF office that no
one would risk putting him in"
| With Mr.. Morley SO bitterly opposed to
the Rosebery section of the Liberals and
! Sir Henry Campbell-Bahnerman such
| non -committal nonentty that his party
press scarcely ever refers to him. the
! Liberals have no leader upon whom TO
/ unite, even should they cohese sufficiently
| to make a determined attempt to Oust the
| government, so II is probable the oppo- |
! stion's tactics will be of the guerilla or
| der, contenting themselves with putting
up Sir Charles Dixie and others to criti- |
! else individual points, and, while not di-
rectly challenging a vote upon the moral |
| lty of the war and the governments wag- |
| ing of it for fear of incurring the accu- |
! sation of being unpatriotc, achieving the |
| same end by vigorous academic criticism |
of the ante-bellum diplomacy, bringing up
| the Jameson raid skeleton and demanding
| the production of the withheld correspond |
| ence which was referred to by Mr.. B. r |
| Hawksley, counsel for Mr. Cecil Rhodes |
in the letters recently published by the
| independence Beige
Measures of Censure.
This line of policy however. will not |
prevent the Irish members and most of
]
vote most sweeping measures of censure |
! But the Liberal leaders of all sections are |
! likely to abstain from supporting the |
war itself, which has now been in prog |
ress over three months, and the British |
| position is worse than when Parliament
was hastily assembled to grant supplies.
An eminent British general, reviewing |
| the campaign to representative of the AS |
| sociated Press, thus summed it up:
| 'First of all, we underestimated the en- |
emv; secondly we knew nothing of the |
! power of modern weapons when opposed |
! 10 each other in the hands of tolerably |
| equal forces; thirdly, we deserted strate- |
| cv to satisfy sentiment BY that | mean |
| Iadvsmith and kimberley appealed TO u.s. |
! and we answered as quickly and as un- |
| thinllingly as does an electric receiver to a |
! trausmitter.
I'VE have learned many things, but, 4
| chiefly we have learned that long range |
| qrns and rifles minimize tremendously |
/ the advantage which formerly accrued to |
! tho aqgressor Yet | thoroughly believe, |
! End am not speaking without experience, |
! that had any continental nation under |
! taken the same task with the same force |
! n would by this time have been wiped |
| ont There are a lot of things which |
| r,igh+ have been learned had we watched /
vour land fighting at Santiago. But we |
did not. As a result we did not have nip |
ners 10 cut wire, and we knew nothing |
about Mausers. But the appreciation OF |
our shortcomings only makes us the more |
determined 1t may be six months and it |
may be a year; but we shall achieve our |
object