New-York tribune., 1900-01-28
WAR TALK IN LONDON.
LITTLE PROBABILITY THAT THE GOV
EMINENT WILL BE OvERTHRowN.


Government and its methods of handling the
war is unabated. 1t is safe to say that when
Parliament meets. Tuesday next nothing serious
will result. There will be the usual motions OF
censure with, perhaps. more than usually i'm
passioned denunciations of the various depart
ments Of the administration especially the War
and Colonial Offices But such is the patriotism
of the average Englishman, and such is the
strength of the Conservative organization, that
it will be surprising if Lord Salisburys majority
is even apprecably weakened. This mere tally
of votes, however must not be construed as
real index OF national feeling for many a man
will go to the Government lobby who outside
has privately declared some one ought TO be
hanged for maladmnistration, and that IL Lord
Salisbury did not dissoclate himself from the
system or culprits responsible for the national
humiliation he must eventually take the conse-
quences. The inner circles of the Government
perfectly we'll aware OF such eventuality,
but they have fears for the immediate future,
implicitly believing in a successful climax Of
the war, and trusting it will Offset the initial
blunders.
LIBERAL PARTY RENT IN TWAIN.
Another cogent reason for prophesying that
the session will be barren Of changes affecting
the balance OF power is that the Opposition. ap-
parently. is hopelessly divided. Nothing showed
this better than John Morley's speech at For
far on January "a when for the first time, he
publicly sneered at Lord Rosebery. who num-
bers among his devoted adherents such brilliant
Liberals H. H. Asquith and Sir Edward
Grey. Lord Rosebery's magnificent speech this
week. and the speeches which he has recently
delivered have been convincing men or all par
ties of his exceptional breadth of mind, patriot
ism and ability to face q national crisis sanely'
and perhaps it is not stretching the bow 10
say he to-day commands British confidence TO
a greater extent than Lord Salisbury. Yet, 1t
is impossible for the Liberals to unite on him
and; as 1.-The Saturday Review says, He Is
admirable out of office that no one would
risk putting him in"
With Mr.. Morley bitterly opposed to the
Rosebery section of the Liberals and Sir Henry
Campbell Zimmerman such a non-committai
nonentity that his own party press scarcely ever
refers to him. the liberals have no leader on
whom to unite, even should they cohere sufh-
cientIy to make a determined attempt to oust
the Government so it is probable the Opposi-
tion's tactics will be of the guerilla order con-
tenting themselves with putting up Sir Charles
Dixie and others to criticse individual points,
and while not directly challenging vote upon
the morality of the and the Governments
waging of it, for fear of mourning the accusa-
tion of being unpatriotic, achieving the same
end by vigorous academic criticism Of the ante
beum diplomacy, bringing up the Jameson
raid skeleton and demanding the production of
the withheld correspondence which was referred
to by B. f. Hawksley, counsel for Cecil Rhodes,
in the letters recently published in the ''Inde-
pendance Beige" This line of policy, however.
will not prevent the Irish members and most of
the advanced Liberals from bringing to vote
most sweeping measures of censure.
BRITISH LEARNING COSTLY LESSONS.
An eminent British general. reviewing the
campaign, thus summed it up:
First of all, we underestimated the enemy.
Secondly, we knew nothing of the power Of
in the hands of tolerably equal forces. Third,
deserted strategy to satisfy sentiment. BY
that I mean Ladysmith and Kimberley ap-
pealed to us, and we answered as quickly and
as unthinkingly as does an electric receiver to
a TRANSMITTED
We have learned many things but chiefly we
have learned that long range guns and rifles
minimize tremendously the advantage which
formerly accrued to the aggressor Yet thor
oughly believe, and 1 am not speaking without
experience that had any Continental nation
undertaken the same task with the same force
it would by this time have been wiped out.
There a lot of things which might have been
learned had watched your land fighting at
santiago. BUT we olo not. as resuIt, we ulo
not have nippers to cut wire, and we knew moth
ing about Mausers But the appreciation of our
shortcomings only makes the more deter
mined 1t may be six months and it may be q
year; but shall achieve object
From the field of party strife and military
criticism. it is relief to turn to an extract
from letter of officer at the front, who
writes:
An orderly was bringing some water to a
wounded man lying on the ground near me- shot
through the abdomen. He could hardly speak,
owing to the dryness of his mouth but he said:
Take it to my pal first He's worse hit than
me-"
Professor Goodwin Smith writes to THE
Speaker of the most misleading letters
which could possibly be put before the British
public 1t begins by saying:
1 suppose the donors of the Maine thought
they paying a compliment to America in
calling it by that name; but, really they were
pricling the American conscience, as there are
few things more certain than that the Maine
blown up by the ignition of the coal in her
bunkers. The accident has happened 20
three American vessels since, one OF them COM
manded by the same captain of the Maine,
though In these cases the vessels were saved.
Nothing is more certain than that the Maine
was not blown up by the Spanards.
There is more in the same strain, including as
proof Of his contention the remark that mo
more now is heard of the monument which was
to be erected to the crew of the Maine"
THE Saturday Review" strikes a bold note of
defiance of the majority Of the English corre-
spondents in America by declaring "the gen.
eral feeling in America is by no means with us
in this matter (the war;, whatever its better in
formed units may think"
So deep has the military craze taken root that
swell dinner parties are now using khaki table
cloths, with bright red flowers placed in imita-
ton of cavalry boots.
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
From the English point OF view, there is not
a cloud the sky of international relations