Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-28
STILL HOLD OFF
ENGLAND'S PREMIER A MASTER
OF WAITING TACTICS.
WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT LAST?
May Side With Germany or May Not
Much Dissatisfaction Over
Salisbury.

New York. Sept. 2S.-A Tribune special
from london says: y number of fresh
canards rave arrived from china within
the past ~forty-eight hours. Lord Sails
bury's reply to the German government
is still awaited with anxiety in Berlin and
intense interest in other capitals and the
English press is cropping in the dark for
the real policy OF the British foreign Of
flee. The delay in sending the answer to
Berlin is not satisfactorily explained by
lack of information from Pekin when his
facilities for communication have been
as good as those of the other powers. He
is probably casting about for some effec-
tive method of dulling the edge of a re-
fusal and opening the way for an amend
ment of the German proposals. The
theory that the guilty must be punished,
can be accepted easily enough, even IT
the ways and means proposed by Ger
many are rejected. The opinlon when
has prevailed in Fleet street that the
British foreign office will strongly sup
port the proposal hat negotiations can
not be entered into until the leaders of
the anti-foreign movement are surrend-
cred for punishment, is not held in diplo-
matte circles here. Lord Salisbury is
not believed to favor so drastic a policy.
WHAT the best Informed men are expect
Ing IS MS REFUSAL 10 assent W lllS IHeti-
cd of procedure but they are also conf
dent that the emergency of views will be
minimized and concealed as far as pos
sible. If those forecasts are correct.
Lard Salisbur.I's reply viii surprise the.
English electors who are expecting evil
dence that England is shoulder to should
er in China with Germany and the triple
alliance. For this reason, Lord Salisbury
may be deliberate in drafting and dis
patching it. He has himself referred to
the China complications as one OF the
reasons for having as large a majority as
possible in the next parliament and he
may be reluctant to have the text of his
reply published on the eve of election.
His silence, however, does not exempt
him from criticism. The Westminster
Gazette is already condemning his mac
ton with fine irony and explaining that
the foreign office could not be expected to
make up it's mind about the German cir
cular within ten days, and the empress
and the ringleaders are likely to have
another three weeks in which to escape.
Foreign policy apparently is not wholly
separated from domestic policy even in
England. The people are not satisfied.
The liberals are doing better work than
was expected and there is much apathy
on the UNIONS side. Liberals largely
outnumbered the radicals in the list of
candidates and as to the result of the
South African annexation there is also
much criticism about the military blund-
ers and lack of political foresight on the
part of the government. The elections
will probably go heavy unionist. but the
demoralized liberal party has contrived
to pull itself together and make a Wig
orous fight.
For this reason is it doubtless conven-
tent for the prime minister to keep his
Clint policy in the back ground as long
as possible.