The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-16
ENGLAND LOSES HEART
Nation Feels DiSgraced Over
the Recent Defeat.
M INTEREST IN CANAL
,,prTAMENT ADJoURNS-THE
QUEENS SPEECH SHORT.


--s.1, was broken to the nation exact
-, wear after General Buffers de-
80 at Colenso. efectually disposes of
80. homes that the war in South Africa
- rsarIv ended and completely abates
- rvih that the operations there
M merely of a guerrilla nature As
Ar LIoyd-GeOrge, LIBERAL salC IN thS
5,rTea of commons today:
o..--1,fs is one of the most severe re
.s suffered by the British and Il
g. r,rita evident the war VIII drag on
60 many months to come. DeWeJ IS
---5ting England the laughing stock OF
a. world We have 2lUUOO Zen IN me
- vet we are unable to protect our
- from disaster at the hands Of
e-raU commanders drawn from pas
--Ea extent of the reverse and the dis
80 of such a large body Of men sur
sandering to a small contingent OF
- has created a feeling of shame
ard establishment which finds free
,snr With somewhat cruel coincl-
Isnre. the NorthumSorlands are known
he Fighting Fifth" The Second
i,a+raTion. to which the captured COM
,,auies belong, was one or the heaviest
sufferers at SUOTmbeTg a year ago. The
regiment has often been pronounced
~ home and foreign critics to be one
If the finest in the British army.
All the fOrebOdings and criticisms
which COlensO gave rise to a year ago
have been resuTTected by the disaster
af the MagalieSberg- The war Office
has nothing to do but grin and bear
81" and trust to time. General Kitch-
enar-s forces are transformed into
,raunred infantry, and until the mount
rd uOIiCe gets to work, Mr.. Broderlck
sees little hope of improvement IN the
military situation.
officers VIII Be Made to Suffer.
Rut whoever was responsible for the
surrender at the AIagaliesberg is likely
70 suffer for the new war office officials
are determined to make examples OF
generals or any other officers guilty of
such gross miSmana cement, or worse,
which il would seem, must have Oc-
CURED at this last defeat. This stern
attitude on the part of the government,
however, by no means decreases the
scOrn and ignOminy with which certain
of the liberal members Of parliament,
who are avOwedly pleased by the BceF
successes, are regarded by the major
mart OF the community. At a prO-Boer
meeting Friday. at which Leonard
Courtney presided. General Kitchen
erS name was greeted with cries OF
villain" butcher" beast, while
mention OF Steyn and DeWet ELECTED
loud cheers.
The Pail Mall Gazette today editori-
ally declares that such men as Court
rey. Bryn Roberts and Lloy i-George
ought TO be put in CCyentrS and BE-
not spoken to by any self-respeCting
Englishman- The eXpedient, severe as
IL is is likely TO meet with approval
in all quarters, not excluding the mod
crate liberal journals. Sir Henry
pbell-Bannerman. the liberal lead
er in the house Of commons, does not
his alleged followers to take up such
an avowedly anti-British attitude.
No Interest In Canal.
In view OF the events in South Afri-
ca, it is scarcely surprising that the
public refuses to be CajOled into taking
d burning interest in the Nicaraguan
canal. il spite of the special American
cable dispatches, which broke the rec
OUdS for length and seriousness. The
London Times correspondent today
makes a passionate comparison be
tween the present stage Of affairs and
that which existed at the time of the
Venezuela dispute, and bitterly ar
Taigns President Mckinley and the
senate, yet Lord PauncefOte has not
Cabled d word to the foreign office
which heard of the vote on the Davis
amendment only through the AssOci-
Eted Press.
-
messages as most of the London dailies
are receiving from their American cor
respondents find no responsive echo In
Downing street, where depreciation Is
freely expressed of these cables efforts
10 appTise the British public of how
badly the senate is alleged to be treat
ing their government The foreign Of
fee officials. while expecting the treaty
L. be amended, were frankly surprised
al the size of the majority which served
more than anything else TO make them
believe that there was no truth in the
Cabled statements that the railroad in
terests were solely responsible for the
opposition, CT that irrational jingOism
had Suddenly become epidemic IN the
United States. There exists IN the for
eign Office a sane appreciation OF the
American objections to building JhC
canal and not being allowed TO fOrtify
#.
Await Senate's Final Action.
Yet, at the same time" says an o.
friaI we do not see why the treaty
which we made with the people who
We believed TO be the responsible rep
Tesentatives of America should be
treated so cavalierly by the senate.
We do not regard the present issues
Is OF any great Importance, for we
doubt If the Nicaragua canal Will ever
DE- paying Investment, and, whoever
builds 1t. it viii be of little use TO Eng
land, either in peace or war. What we
DO regret is the apparent hOpelesSness
o. making treaties with d country
whose senate takes such opposite views
= those il empowers TO act in its be-
haIf.
There seems to be an impression in
America that the Clayton Bulwer
treaty was secured by the cuteness %
tae English representative. and gave
England an unfair advantage. That
View has never existed here. However.
We shall not bother our heads about
the matter until the senate finishes its
lahHrs and we receive the results
through diplomatic channels. We are
anxious 10 know what 3 merica really
does want and until we -,nOW il is alb
slrd 10 Surmise what 10 do. However.
ne clayton Bulwer treaty worked sat
l--actorlly for years, and as new trea-
Ties seem TO cause dissensions in Amer
lea. maybe IL is just as we'll if we are
c'lged 10 revert 10 the former agree
m@nr the bindingness and equity Of
which We have never for a moment
doubted, in spite of our concessions in
Inc Hay-Pauncefote treaty"
Queens Speech Breaks Record.
Parliament was dismissed until the
middle Of February with the reading IF
[Le shortest of the queens speeches.
-J was as follows:
sly lords and gentlemen. I thank
you Ior the liberal provision you have
made Tor the expenses incurred by the
operations Of my armies in South Afri-
ca and China"
The proceedings today in the house
OF commons were Q repetition in NINA
Llre of the debates of the brief session.
Inc ministers we're lectnred, the war
was EiruleUrlV denounced and Mr.