The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-12
HATCHET DUG up
The One Buried by the Queens
Visit to Ireland
Is Unearthed by the Speech of
Lord Salisbury.
SANITY is DOUBTED.
English Public Disposed to Re-
gard the Premier
As Having Departed From His
Mental Balance.
SANITY is DOUBTED.

copyright, 1900, by Associated Press.]
London, May 12.-Lord Salisbury ad-
dressed the members of the Primrose
League on Wednesday, but the drift of
his meaning has not yet filtered into
British minds The remarkable utter
ances of the premier on that occasion
continue to form almost the sole topic
of conversation, though editorial writers
quickly gave up the attempt to analyze
for the benefit of the public the numer-
Gus features of the speech and were well
nigh staggered into silence by it's baf-
fling unexpectedness and the multiplied
ty of the issues it contained. 1t was de-
livered when the nation expected ex-
actly the opposite kind of remarks To
implore his countrymen to awake
to the perilS constantly menac-
ing their great empire and it's exist
ence at the very moment when long
period of patient waiting had been re-
placed by jubilation over Roberts sue
ceSsful advance was an expedient so ut
terly bereft of the first principles of
politics considering the approach of the
| elections that some of Lord Salisbury S
| head when he spoke.
Not content with this, he pulled down
! every pretty fabric that had been built
around the queens visit to Ireland
| calmly comparing the present efforts to
| attain home rule to Boer conspiracies
/ and hostilities. And this after the
| queen and every leading member of
| Lord SaliSbury'S own cabinet and party
/ had been at particular pains to bury the
| Irish hatchet Moreover the whole tone
| Of the speech lacked all those formali-
| ties, reticencies and yelled allusions to
| which the English people have been ac-
! customed since the days of Pitt and
Palmerston. Lord Salisbury hitherto
| had religiOusly followed such precedents
but on Wednesday he spoke to the pub
| lie as he might to an intimate friend af-
ter dinner. So amazing and so interest
/ ing has been Lord Salisbury himself as
revealed this week, that the broad and
from the standpoint of other nations the
| lar most OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES feature
of the speech has passed almost unno-
ticed- Were the premier of any other
/ European state to get up in these times
of wars and rumors of war and urge the
people OF an emlnenIly commerclNl race
| to accuStom themselves to the use of
firearms and to establish rifle clubs in
every city, village and hamlet there
would run through Europe such a shiver
OF fright and such vivid anticipation of
hostile intention and devastating con-
fiict that market prices would drop by
decades and mobilization plans would
be at the finger tip of every war minis
ter. That this has not occurred appears
to be due to the generally recognized
fact that Salisbury is more a philoso-
pher than a statesman and that when
ties toward England the world over, he
was sepaking purely in the abstract
without harbOring in his mind one con-
crete instance whereby that hostility
might become an immediate menace
A curious incident connected with the
parade of the Ladysmith naval brigade
of the British cruiser Powerful was that
the decorating authorities almost smoth-
cred the officers of Lord Strathcona
and Mount Royal, the Canadian high
| commissioner, with the stars and stripes
while on the outside of the United States
| embassy in the same street was no sign
of an American flag. Lord Strathcona
pointed out the unsuitability of the pre-
dominance of the stars and stripes and
the number of these enblems was re-
duced-
A NEW BIBLE.
The latest display of British ingenuity
is a new Bible. Mr.. J. K. Starley who
describes himself as a bicycle director
of Coventry has issued under the aus
pices of the Sunday School Supply COM
pany Bible in which the New Testa-
ment precedeS the old. In the preface
Mr.. Starley justifies his action by say
ing the Old Testament was meant to be
a ''candleStick on which the new should
stand" adding: Yet we have largely
made the old an extinguisher, which
; puts out it's light"
Great Britain continues to be beWil-
dered by the continual success of the
American jockeys and Vainly seeks az
explanation. One of the leading author.
I
! ever, puts this in a nutshell in an ar
ticle in The Man of the World, saying
Our English jockeys appear to have
relinquished all efforts at competing
: with the indefatigable team of Trans
atlantic horsemen now with us Had
some of our young aspirants the energ!
and determination to get to the from
, possessed by Sloan, Martin, Reiff anC
: company the chances of success WoulC
be considerably improved. At presen
! ! they with some half dozen exceptions
appear absolutely paralyzed at the turl
| things have taken. It was a NOTABLE
| fact that the brothers Reiff were frs
| or second in every race and only frs
and second respectively at Hurst Parl
last Saturday. Each won two races an,
the younger was thrice and the eide
once second. This was a really remark
able afternoons performance. It viii
r surely be some time before eithe
t lengthen his stirrup feathers. TIL
n Youngest of these, gifted, industrious
r vet quiet and unassuming jockeys, is a.
/ example to some of our own school. VIII
no sooner get to the front than. like tn
g frog, the swell to bursting. These tw
: young American horsemen are reall
a fine examples for a great majority 0
r our Jockeys who are gradually allowin
n themselves to be snuffed out.
Recruits For Philippines.