The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28
! CHANGE ANTICIPATED.
.assspuRY GOVERNMENT WILL.
WEATHER THE sroRM.
,skereIs Too Hopelessly Divided to
unite ON Any Leader. ana Parlia-
nent VIII no No More Than Lis-
ia to some sharp Criticisms.


f..vrirhted, 1900. by the Associated Press.
f6NDON, Jan. 27.--Though criticism Of
1 ~ eovernment and Its methods OF handling
~ var Is undated 1t is safe to say that
rhen parliament meets Tuesday next moth
+. ~ serious will result. There will be the
ulnal motions of censure. with perhaps
rs6ra than usual impassioned denunciations
z ths various departments of the admin
grafton. especially the war and colonial
o1leta But such Is the patriotism of the
sveraxe Englishman, and such Is the
,trefEth OF the conservative organization.
"a II viii be surprising II Lord Sails
hrfyss majority Is even appreciably weak
MI. This mere tally Of votes, however,
INST not be construed as a real index OF
nailonal feeling. for many q man will give
d . the government lobby who outside has
rrfvateay declared some one ought to be
hsnked for misadministration and that II
Tpfd Salisbury did not disassociatc himself
froaa the systcm Of culprits responsible for
ihe national humiliation he must eventually
IKE the consequences. The inner circles
d the government are perfectly well aware
u such an eventuality. but they have no
ftars for the immediate future. implicitly
bsIieyine In a successful climax OF the war
IA trusting It win Offset the initial blund-
en-
Liberals HopelcssIy Divided.
Another cogent reason for propheaying
that the session will be barren OF changes
aRrting the balance Of power Is that the
oppcsition apparently IL hopelessly divid-
a. Nothing showed this better than Mfr.
John Morley.s speech at Forfar. January ~.
when, for the first time. he publicly sneered
at Lord Rosebery, who numbers among his
devoted adherents such brilliant Liberals
as H. III. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey.
lord Rosebery's magnificent speech this
week and tho speeches which he has re-
Gently delivered have been convincing men
Of All parties Of his exceptional breadth Of
mind. patriotism and ability to face 4 ma
ticnal crisis safely. and perhaps It is not
stretching the bow to say he today com
mands British confidence to a greater ex-
teht than Lord Salisbury. Yet 1t is I'm;
possible for the Liberals to unite on him.
and as the Saturday Review says, he is
. admirable out of ONCE that one would
risk putting him In.
xo Leader Upon whom to Unite.
with Mr.. Morley 80 bitterly opposed to
the Rosebery section Of the Liberals. and
efr Henry Campbell Bannerman such a
noncommital nonentity that his own party
press scarcely ever refers to him. the Lib
erals have no leader upon whom to unite,
even should they cohere sufficiently to
make determined attempt to GUST the
government, so 1t is probable the oppose
tion tactics will be of the guerrilla order.
contenting themselves with putting up Sir
Charles Dixie and others to criticise in
dividual points, and while not directly
challenging a vote upon the morality Of
the war and the governments waging of 1t
for fear Of mourning the accusation Of be-,
otve<x nvfr bn bx,
vigorous academic criticism Of the ante
bellum diplomacy, bringing up the Jameson
raid skeleton and demanding the produc-
ion Of the withheld correspondence, which
was referred to by Mr. u. f. Hawksley,
counsel for Mr.. Cecil Rhodes, in the let
tiers recently published by the independent.
This fine of policy. however. will not pre-
vent the Irish members and most of the
advanced Liberals from bringing to vote
most sweeping measures of censure. But
the Liberal leaders Of all sections are like
ly to abstain from supporting the war itself.
which has now been in progress over three
than when parliament was hastily assem-
bled to grant supplies.
Review of the War.
An eminent British general, reviewing
the situation. thus summed 1t up: 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
force. Thirdly, we deserted strategy to
satisfy sentiment. BY that mean Lady
smith and Kimberley appealed to us and
we answered as quickly and unthinkly AZ
does an electric receiver to a transmitter.
I'VE 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, thoroughly believe
and l am not speaking without experience,
that had any continental nation under
taken the same task with the same force
1t would by this time have been wiped
out. There are a lot of things which
might have been learned had we watched
your land fighting at Santiago. But we
did not. AS result we did not have nip
pers 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 1t
may be year: but we shall achieve our
object"
TOmmy's Patient Heroism.
From the field Of party strife and mill
tary criticism It is relief to turn to an
extract from letter of an officer at the
front who writes: IAN orderly was bring
%tfb Soiuc WdtST " III WOuI1Qeu man lying
on the ground near me, shot through the
abdomen He could hardly speak. owing
70 the dryness of his mouth, but he said:
Take 1t to my partner first He's worse
hit than me-.
After reading this one can understand
that Gen. Butler did not slop over when he
wired: The men are splendid
Goldwin smiths Misleading Letter.
Prof, Goodwin Smith writes to the
speaker one of the most misleading let
ters which could possibly be put before the
British public. 1t commences by saying:
Il suppose the donors of the Maine
thought they were paying a compliment
70 America in calling 1t by that name, but,
really. they were pricking the American
conscience, as there are few things more
certain than that the Maine was blown
up by igniting of the coal in her bunkers.
me same accident has happened to three
Aiherlcan vessels since, one of them COM
'nnanded by the same captain of the Maine,
mouEh In these cases the yessaIs were