The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-28
MERE ORATORICAL GAS.
British Anger Against the Govern
ment Will go no Further.

British Anger Against the Govern
ment Will go no Further.
Copyright, 1900, by Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 27.-Though criticism of
the Government and its methods of
handling the war is undated it is safe
to say that when Parliament meets
Tuesday next, nothing serious will re-
suit. There will be the usual motions
Of censure with, perhaps, more than
usually imprisoned denunciations of the
various departments of the Admins
tration, especially the war and colonial
offices. But. such is the patriotism of
ihe average Englishman and the strength
of the Conservative organization that
it will be surprising if Lord Salisbury's
majority is even appreclably weakened.
This mere tally of votes, however, must
not be construed as real index of ma
ti0nal feeling, for many a man Will 60
10 the Government lobby, who, outside,
| has privately declared some one ought
| to be hanged for mal-administration and
| that if Lord Salisbury did not disasso-
riate himself from the system or culprits
responsible for the national humiliation
| he must eventually take the conse
| i
ernment are perfectly well aware of
such an eventuality, but they have no
| fears for the immediate future. inn
plicitly believing in successful climax
Of the war and trusting it will offset the
initial blunders. Another cogent reason
| or prophesying that the session will be
| barren of changes affecting the balance
| Of power is that the opposition. appar-
Il Id
showed this better than Mr. John Nor
ley's speech at Forfar, January 9th,
when for the first time he publicly
| Sneered at Lord Rosebery. who numbers
| among his devoted adherents such bril-
| liant Liberals as Mr.. II. II. Asquith anu
| Sir Edward Grey Lord Rosebery's mag
nitcent speech this week and the
| speeches which he has recently deliv-
| cred have been convincing men of all
| parties of his exceptional breadth of
| mind, patriotism and ability to face a
| national crisis sanely, and perhaps. it Is
| not stretching the bow to say he today
| commands British confidence to a great
| ar extent than Lord Salisbury. Yet,
| it is impossible for the Liberals to unite
| IN him, and, as the Saturday Review
| says, ''hc is so admirable out of office
|
| With Mr.. Morley 50 bitterly opposed to
he Rosebery section Of the Liberals and
| Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman such a
| non-commital nonenity that his own par
| y press scarcely ever refers to him. the
Liberals have no leader upon whom to
Iunite even should they cohere sufficient
~ to make determined attempt 10
| Gust the Government, so it is probable
| hn no Of Tho
| guerilla order, contenting themselves
with putting up Sir Charles Dixie ami
| others to criticse individual points and
While not directly challenging vote
upon the morality of the war and the
Governments waging of it for fear OF
ncurring the accusation of being uaiTa-
| triotic, achieving the same end hy svig-
)rous academic criticism of the ante-bei-
nm Diplomacy. bringing up the Jameson
raid skeleton and demanding the produc.
ton of the withheld correspondence
which was referred to by Mr.. B. F.
| Hawksley, counsel for Mr.. Cecil Rhodes
in the letters recently published by the
| independence Beige.
1 This line of policy. however. will not
prevent the Irish members and most of
he advanced Liberals from bringing to
1
| sure. But the Liberal leaders of all
sections are likely to abstain from snip
| porting the war itself. which has now
been in progress 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 a representative of the
| A or 1 praces tbnc ,aI
| First of all. we underestimate the
| enemy secondly we knew nothing of the
| power of modern weapons when opposed
to each other in the hands of tolerably
| equal forces Thirdly, we deserted
| strategy to satisfy sentiment. BY that
| mean Ladysmith and Kimberley APP
pealed to us. and we answered as quickly
and as unthinkingly as does an electric
| receiver to a transmitter.
| 1--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 l thoroughly be-
| lieve, and l am not speaking without
experience, that had any continental ma
| ton undertaken the same task with the
same force it would by this time have
| been wiped out. There are lot OF
| things which might have been learned
had we watched your land fighting at
Santiago. But we did not AS a result
we did not have nippers to 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"