Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-03
Scenes Witnessed After Re-
lief Of LadySmith.
NEVER BEFORE wEQUALLED
Students Paraded the Streets and
Serenaded the Cabinet Officers
Attitude of the Pope in the B0er
War Is Explained.

London, March 3.-(Copyr.ghted, 1900.
by the Associated Press.)-A dukedom tor
Roberts, an earldom for Kitchener and a
peerage for Butler, thus say the proph-
cts already busy at this occupation. II
only the marvellous wave of enthusiastic
rejoicing that swept over the country
this week could find it's prototype IN ma
terlal rewards Lord Roberts and his fell
low heroes of the Jour would all be made
duke forthwith. The change that has
come over the spirit of Great Britain's
war dream can only be appreciated by
those who Went through those II four
months of unequaled gloominess and de-
preston ard what are now freely admit
ted to be defeats.
The scenes accompanying this change
equaled the widest delight that ever
gushed through impressionable France.
To a certain extent they We're quite un-
characteristic Of the British race and
quite put in the shade a demonstration
that occurred in the United States during
the Spanish-American war. Yet it must
be borne in mind that Great Britain had
been sentimentally bottled up so long that
there was bound to be an outlet. KIM
OCA1SS was II M @ =
was noticeable in this ensely populated
United Kingdom. Lord Roberts, by ex-
cellent strategy, caught General Cronje
in a wise and annihilated him, and the ma
ton said we'll don with several degrees
less fervor h it would have mad the
same remark had England beaten Aus
tralia at cricket. The barriers of British
self-restraint and reserve were not vet
broken down. Though hundreds went
about their daily business apparently
complacent, but in their hearts were dy-
ing for a chance to cheer and yell in sheer
delight, it was still Napoleor's race Of
shopkeepers, placid and eminently prop
err.
Ladysmith was relieved. Then came
the deluge of desire to publicly exhibit re-
jo.clng which would no longer be denied.
The many forms it tool have already
been described in these dispatches. The
long casualty lists passed almost unnotic-
ed. Who cared for the dead except to sing
their praises. The intoxication Of victory,
coming after months Of reverses, pervad-
ed the length and breadth of the land.
The cry of Great Britain's military weak
ness, the rottenness of her army organic
alton and the menacing acts Of other pow-
ers was stilled. and the tears of those who
had become widows or fatherless because
OF this great thing We're only so much
more intense to the triumphant war god.
Since the strife began almost everyone
has said: There is no doubt about the
result. We are bound to VIM
Blu It was not until this week that a
large percentage of tbs people could ac-
tually convince themselves of the GER
talnty of the phrase so slfb.y repeated.
Small wonder, then, that the wal was the
sole topic Of the week.
Some of the demonstrations quite outdid
those Of the people Of Paris. It takes an
effort of inlagination TO picture the ordi-
nary middle-class English girl marchine
bareheaded through the streets. singing
and shouting and waving flags, but this is
what occurred. About LOCO male and fe-
male students Of the Kensington art
schools, the girls hatless n wearing
their modelling gowns and the men in ov-
erals. marched, singing and cheering ia
the Albert memorial and thence to Mr.,
Joseph Chamberlain's house, where Mrs
Chamberlain smil.ngly Acknowledged the
ovation, and Mr.. J. Austin Chamberlain
the colonial secretary's eldest son, made a
speech. The sentrnes refused this strange
band admission to the knights Bridge
barrack. and to this they had to sing
~Rule, britannia outside. At Colone
Raden-FowelPs house they sang For He
IS a jolly Good Fellow" and. passing tn;
French embassy, to express their feelings
they maintained an ominous silence.
A number Of boys Of the Westminste1
schools demonstrated somewhat similarl,
in front of the offices of the Canadian higi
commissioner and the other colonia
agents.
The scenes after the battle of Water
loo, as described by the writers Of tha
day, We're as nothing compared with tn,
scenes witnessed this week.
The pope's attitude toward Great Brit
ain and the British Catholics attitude
towards the wal We're Interestingly ex
htbited at an influential meeting of tn,
British Catholic union this week, wher
the president, the Duke of Norfolk, reau
some correspondence exchanged between
himself and Cardinal Rampolla. tn
papal secretary of state. The union ha,
requested the Duke Of Norfolk to inter
rogate the holy see in relation to- tn
E tone taken by the Osserya
tore Romano in commenting on the Boo
war.
The paper is supposed to be the Off
cial organ, receiving the financial sub
sidy from the pope. The Duke of Nor
folk wrote:
ITO us it seems very grievous that an
opportunity should be given to anyon
TO persuade the British people that tn
noly see regards them with hostility G
dislike. I cannot deny thai an impres
sion of this sort is creeping into the pull
lie mind. When, it is remembered thu
Catholics are in the minority in Grea
Britain, it will, we think. be admitte
that, in the freedom of our religion, in til
e'Sdl uuSSulon OF euucatlon and in ma
ters of religious illustrations to so
diers and sailors. we need not Fear con
parison with other countries in whif
Catholics form the great majority"
To which Cardinal Rampolla cordial
replied that the Osservatore Roman
only printed ora column which was of
cial. and tails was devoted to religion
news. adding his refusal to accept r
0~pOnsibllity for any political views
nfghA express. and declaring that Il