The sun., 1900-01-29
PATRIOTISM WILL WIN OUT
British Parliament viii SUI
port Salishury's Govern
ment in the War.
WHY ENGLAND HAS LOST
Campaign in south Af.icn E"yiewed
by British Generals---Canard Of
Battlrship Maiue by Profess
sor GOldny---Other
English News.

the government and its methods OF han
ding the war is uAablted, it is safe 10
say that when parliament meets ON Tues |
lay nothing serious will 'r6siift. = There
vii be tile Usual motions Of censure
With perhaps more; than usually impas- |
stoned deniinciatioi.s Of the various de |
partihents or the admini nisttrqt.iion. .espe-.
cially the war aid colonial ,qtieess. .Bnt |
A1ch IS the. patriotism of the,.aTeragg
EnlgliSEInan, and such is. tlle strength. of
The, Cdfrsafyltiye. 9rgilnizqtiqn, that il !
WIN. he. surprising if ..Lafd. Snlishyry's
ntpjoritX..is even Nbpreciably weakened.
Z This. nleges ..till$ of votes, however.
''nltist a9t rs. fonstiled as aireal ,fndex. OF
inati9nm feeling" for manya man will go
TO the goyerninent lobbyswlI9 outside has
,pfivately, declared some one ought TO be
'hangeds for inaladinirristrItion lind 'thataif
Lord Salisbury did not dissociate him
self from the system or cnfpris RESPONSE
Bile for the national humiliation lie must
eventually take tile Consequences: The
inner circles of the government are per
fectly well aware of such an eventlialitg;
but they have no fears for the Immediate
future. implicitly believing III d success
full climax Of the war and trusting il
will Offset the initial blunders..
Another cogent reason for prophesy-
ing that the session will be barren of
changes affecting the balance of power is
that the opposition. apparently. is hope
lessly divided. Nothing showed this bet
ter than Mr.. JOHN AIorley's speech at
Forfar on Jan. 81. when for the first
time he publicly. sneered at Lord Rose.
berry, who numbers among his devoted
adherents such brilliant Liberals as Mr..
I 4 nd Git IL Al
ROsebery's Speech.
Lord RosebeIy's magnificent speech
last week and the speeches which he
has recently delivered have been con
vincing men of all parties of his excep-
tional breadth of mind, patriotism and
ability to face Il national crisis sanely.
and perhaps it is not stretching the bow
to say that he today commands British
confidence to il greater extent than Lord
| Salisbury. Yet it is impossible for the
Liberals to unite on him, and, as The
| Saturday Review says, 'he is so admira
Bile cut of Office that no one would risk
putting him in With MIR. Morley so
bitterly opposed to the Rosebery section
of the Liberals and Sir Henry Campbell,
| Bannerman such a noncommittal non
entity that his own party press scarcely
ever refers to him. the Liberals have no
| leader upon whom to unite even should
they cohere sufficiently to make a de
| termined attempt to oust the government.
So it is probable the oppositon's tac-
tics will be of the guerrilla order, CON
tentng 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
it for fear of incurring the accusation Of
being unpatriotic, yet achieving the same
ends by vigorous academic criticism of
the antebelum diplomacy, bringing up
the Jameson raid skeleton and demand
ing the production of the withheld cor
respondence which was referred to by
Mr.. B. F. Hawksley, counsel for Mr..
Cecil Rhodes, in the letters recently
published by The Independence Beige.
This line of policy. however. will not pre-
vent the Irish members and most of the
advanced Liberals from bringing to vote
most sweeping measures of cens,lre. But
the Liberal leaders of all sections are
likely to abstain from supporting the
war itself, which has now been in prog
ress over three months, and the British
position is worse than when parliament
was hastily assembled to grant supplies.
Review of the Campaign.
An eminent British general reviewing
the campaign, thus summed it up:
First of all. we underestimatcd the
enemy. Secondly, we knew nothing 81
the power of modern weapons when o,,-
posed to each other in the hands of toel.
ably equal forces. Thirdly, we desc tp,I
strategy to satisfy sentiment. Ey that
mean Ladysmith and Kimberley npupa,
cd to us, and we answered as quickly and
ms unthinl,ingly rs does an electric re
ceivor to trnnsmitter.
'Wc have learued mary thh'ss. hut
chiefly we have lenined TIN, Il, angt
guns and rifles minnie idoISly
thc advantage which fo'ano' {, ta..a.,pd te
the aggress0r. Vet th.o i Aplpve
| md | nm not speakil expert
nee, that had any cnnf'N 4ation M
tnkrn the same task viiA Ne su.Ac force
il would BY thi, time A,n heon wiped
art. Therc ac lut thaes whicl
might have letn lca'p"s " we watched
he land fwitn~ ~ i',ti a,a. hat we did
not. ASA rest We it have uipper,
= crt wire, nnd ~ .,tw netting about
Nanscrs. I'ia 'i" apeciaton Of ON
,hWtcoWin@ 7's a.,es Us tic more dc
trrminrA y ra IS siS mnn,l anil il
may lr yi., lt we shal II i1ye ou
Inject
F,nm tc = II prry stiec pl mil
: ta!y cf ,ciicf 4. 70 'o y
,xtr@a li 8 lattn ef ua oaier. It'll III,
front.
SEienGid HcroiSn.
an T.. .ata wa,c,
10 Il ascd Wu lyNs al air Z -nuuC
ncar mr shot through the ahipnen, II,
corli hi!dN speak owing to the d.ynes.
VI lis mouth. but he said:
"'iHka il 70 my pal first. Hos wors,
hit than me-
Agter reading this one can untlcrstan.
that General Butler did not slop owe
when he wired, Tho men are splendid"
Professor Goodwin Smith writes to Th,
Speaker one Of the most misleading let
ters which could possibly he put before
he British public. 1t commences will
saying:
II suppose the donors of the Main,
thought they were paying a compliment
to America in calling it by that name
: 1ut really they were pricking the Ameri
! an conscience, as there are few thing
more certain than that the Maine wal
blsws Mp " the lxsitisa eli tie cssl i,