Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-15
ASSAIL CHAMBERLAIN.
Liberals Promise to Make it Very
Interesting for the Colonial
Secretary.

Interesting for the Colonial
Secretary.
London. Dec. S.-The assembling of
Parliament has supplied much-needed
lest to life in England. The handful of
members known as the opposition started
the attack ON the government with such
united front that the session. short as
it will be, promises TO rival those ia
nous debates which marked the days
when Mr.. Gladstone tried to force home
rule through the House. The spectacle
of the entire Liberal party concentrating
every possible and probable energy
against one man keeps the nation keyed
up to a high pitch, awaiting the next
move IN the dramatic encounter. If Mr.
Chamberlain comes through GnscaIhed if
VIII be nothing short of marvellous
NO less interesting to the foreign OBJ
server are signs of the dawn of unanimi-
ty among the Liberals. Sir Henry Camp
bell-Bannerman' 5 arrangement of the
government. which Is admitted to have
been the best effort of his life, was al
most identical with that of Lord Rose
berry. Each of these speakers adopted
the same tone and dwelt on the same ton
les. Mr.. BalfOur and the Duke of Dev-
onshIre tainted the opposition leaders
with their inability to speak for their
party rs "A whole; but, these utterances
passed unnoticed and from the benches
behind Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman.
the constant hearty applause DetOkened
the birth of better concord among his
followers. Only once during Campbell
Bannerman's speech was note of inter
nal diScord heard. 1t was whrI. he an
nounced that the Liberals unreservedly
accepted the necessity for the annexation
of the BOer republics. Then one solitary
Liberal loudly shouted. mo, no." Turn
ing around, CampbellBannerman dis
missed the ObjectOr as being of no i'm
portance, with one of the most scathing
retorts ever dealt out by Il leader to a
follower
Dewet's Tactics.
The war-office officials are greatly dis
turbed by the successful guerrilla tactics
of Gen. Dewet, but they cherish the
idea that he must soon cease to be dam
gerous, owing to his inability to secure
new horses. Efforts are being made to
keep Dewet away from the Cape Colony
frontier, for the war office believes he
is getting the bulk of his supplies from
Cape Colony, and to prevent him from
securing food. men and horses, orders
have been issued that the BOer farmers
be only allowed to buy small quantities
of provisions sufficient for their own inn
mediate needs.
Some very frank opinions concerning
Richard Harding Davis have been APP
pearing in the English papers this week.
They were called out by a letter in the
London Times signed by a representative
body of ladies of various Municipalities,
resident at Pretoria, throughout the war,
in which they emphatically repudiate Mr..
Davis charges referring to imprisoned
British officers behavior towards women.
The Daily News comments on the sub
ject as follows: Several months have
elapsed since Mr.. Davis amazingly-un-
truthful allegations were published, but
the requisite contradiction, though long
delayed, has come TO hand at last. Mr..
Davis presumably wrote for the anti
English section of the Americans, though
we should hardly have expected to find
1.-THE name of prominent American mag
azine is here mentioned)-used as a veh
Gle for this vulgar and cowardly abuse"
Suits Against Tube Road.
Trouble threatens London's new tube
road. Many residents under whose
houses the electric trains run have com
bined to she for damages. alleged to be
caused by the vibration. They have sub
scribed 10000 to fight in the courts.
They maintain that though the tube is
at an average of fifty feet below the sur
face, the windows of the houses are rat
tied the occupants awakened and Orna-
ments shaken every time train passes.
If any degree of success meets their ef-
forts it would seriously retard the at
tempt to give London decent rapid tran
sit.
An extraordinary reversal of the usual
conditions appear in the English meat
market and it is likely that English beef
will soon he palmed off as American.
Hitherto the opposite has always been
the case. But ny clever manipulation.
the American statesmen have obtained
control of the market until American
beef costs as much as English beef
Hence the likelihood of substitution.
Commenting on this situation an English
paper says; THE American statesmen
now make prices almost what they like
In the English trade there was no organ
iZation to oppose them. The farmers
have been in the hands of the butchers.
whose cupidity led them into the arms
of the Americans. The only active oppO-
sition the Americans had to meet lay in
the prejudice of the consumer. 1t has
taken twenty years to beat that preju-
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