The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22
WHAT HEADS SHALL FALL
INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS I'm
LONDON DWARFED BY LORD
ROBERTS REPORT
ALL ARE AWAITING ACTION
Recall of Butler and Warren Daily
Expected Americas Quarrel
With Turkey Rather
PIeases the BritOn.

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 2.-The British gov
ernor of Ashanti, Sir Frederic M. Hodg-
son, stands in danger Of being murdered,
and his rule swept out of remembrance;
the United States is considered on the
brink of war with Turkey the Paris ex-
position has been opened, Queen Victoria
is returning from her remarkable visit
to Ireland. Yet. who cares? In Eng
land there is but one topic. and that Is
Lord Roberts Spion Kop dispatches and
their possible results.
Even the commencement of the adj
vance towards Pretoria fails to displace
the sensation of the hour. Weeklies TEEN
with comWent that defies cabled synop-
sis While thefe are multitudinous
expressions of opinions regard
ing the advisability of the publication at
the present moment of such terrible in
dictments of British generals and of
ficers, and while the authorities differ
widely as to the cause of their inef-
ficiencies and the remedies therefore, one
common verdict seems to have been
reached, which is, that Spion Kop was a
. terrible muddle and that some one must
be brought to book.
Though the cabinet itself appears
scarcely decided upon what course to
pursue, public opinion is pretty clearly
F.! defined and is unanimous in demanding
the recall of Gen. Butler and Gen. War
rem, Placing Col Crofton on half pay
has merely whetted the national appe-
tite and the ravenous demand for action
and for the prevention of the useless loss
of loved lives could be satisfied with
such meager game as Col. Crofton. High
er heads, it is said, must fall. 1t is
said the government hopes that Gen.
Butler will apply for his own recall, but
this seems unlikely to happen, and now
the country in general waits for the ac-
ton, what all sections Of the press de-
clare must follow the oddly timed pub
lication of Lord Roberts structures.
A curious feature is that Lord Roberts
apparently is not empowered to deal
with Gen. Butler or even with Gen. War
ren, both having been directly appoint
ed by the government and beyond re-
porting, Lord Roberts report, Lord
Lansdown, the secretary of state for war,
| left the question open, and now for some
mysterious reason has taken the public
/ into his confidence Hence Lord Rob-
| erts is naturally freed from all blame and
has increased his popularity by being
brave enough to expose weak spots.
HINT TO WOMEN.
| The polite warning of the British high
commissioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred
|
ed at Cape Town, forms the basis of a
scathing article in the Saturday Review,
| which says:
'It is barely a year that the English
press teemed with comments far from
| complimentary on the extravagant out,
bursts of New York society over the
| apotheosis of Dewey ard his sailors. But
| the harm effected by that ridiculous spec.
| tacle was limited to its personal results.
| There was no interference with military
| operations and the policy of the United
! States was by no ways hampered be
cause certain yogfng ladies made them
| selves and their victims laughing stocks.
| Though morally the fruit of this same
! Stckly sentimentalism and love of noto-
riety, this descent of English society on
| the shores of South Africa is far worse.
| This rush to the front is only partial
| ly5Fepulsive exhibition of a great outburst
| of unhealthy sentimentalism, for which
t the war has afforded the opportunity.
| This stckly exotic, matured by the Kip.
| lingism Of the music halls and cherished
/ by idle hands, bids fair to obscure its
vigorous, sturdy brother, spreading It's
| roots throughout the EMPIRE
The Saturday Review goes on to cay
! that if the women, 90 not take Sir Alfred
| Miners hint the world will know what
1 to think of them.
| The Rev. De Witt Talmage breaches
his first sermon this year in England to-
morrow at Manchester. lie is looking
! forward with keen interest to addressing
| crowds of similar enormous proportions
! to those which heard him when he last
visited England.