The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-20
RosEBERRY's SPEECHES NOT
WITHOUT MEANING.
so REGARDED BY ENGLAND
Premier More Powerful
Than When at the Head of
England's Cabinet.

utterances in no way decreases the
thrill of admiration and fascination
which follows OH each occasion. The
strange mingling of common sense,
sentiment, surprising rhetoric and
homely phrases puzzles the people of
Great Britain to such an extent that
the former premier may we'll be said
to have gained more power since he
has beer out Of power than he ever
enjoyed before. His speech at Glas-
gov yesterday on the occasion of his
installation as lord rector of Glasgow
university causes other events of the
week to sink into insignificance. Yet
underlying the note Of that wonderful
monograph on the British empire was
one of warning and the Daily Tele-
graph appropriately locates it as fol-
lows:
CHOW that two nations at least,
the United States and Germany, are
so close at our back that their shadow
falls in front of us and that show that
they are in more athletic condition
than ourselves, yet we have no doubt
that England has a reserve pace which
our competitors scarcely suspect. But
we are very neal the time when we
will have to put forth the best Of our
speed and stretch every FIBRE"
1t is Lord Roseberry's constant re-
iteration of those features which
makes his words so deeply weighed by
politicians and business men in Great
Britain. With consummate skill he
presents both the weakness and
strength of imperialism.
A correspondent describing Lord
Roseberry's appearance at Glasgow
says. Ellis aloofness from the crowd
and his unfathomed loneliness were in
striking contrast to that passionate in
terest in public business Of the nation.
Yet, with all this adulation Of his
countrymen bestowed regardless of
party lines, it seems unlikely that the
former liberal premier will emerge
from his political retirement, at any
rate at present. His great antagonist,
the philosophic Lord Salisbury, has
decided quite unexpectedly to call an
early session Of parliament and has
consented to accept the salary Of 5000
pounds for fulfilling his duties as
premier, though nominally, he re-
ceives recompense for SO doing, for
the lord privy seal emoluments, which
were abolished in 1884, are his. Lord
Salisbury, personally was not anxious
to receive any pay, but it was thought
to be a bad precedent for a cabinet
minister to work for nothing, SO the
salary of 5000 pounds Of lord privy
seal was revived and is now his.
The first meeting of parliament
promises to be short and is likely to
be adjourned oven New Year as soon
as the necessary supplies are secured.
One of the most serious questions OF
the week has been church matters.
The arch bishops and bishops met in
| solemn c%onclave to consider privately
many controversial matters, chief OF
which was whether ritualist clergy
men refusing to obey the arch bishops
command should be prosecuted. AS a
result of the deliberations it is proba-
| BILE that the obstinate ritualists will be
| allowed to pursue the even tenor OF
their way, for the Keisit party is op,
posed to prosecutions on the ground
that they were likely to retard expect
ed legislation, while the high church
men were nearly all opposed to any
civil interference. The decision
averts, at least temporarily, what
threatened to be a crisis in the history
of the church of England.