The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-28


ing of the Cabinet Tuesday, Al
though There Will Be Impassion
ate Denunciations of Government. I
Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press.) /
London, Jan. 27-Though criticism Of /
the government and its methods of I
handling the war is undated, it is safe F
TO say that when parliament meets /
Tuesday next nothing serious will re-
suit. There viii be the usual motions /
of eensure. with perhaps more than j
usual irnpassioned denunciatiOns Of the 4
various departments of the administra- /
ton, especially the war and colonial Of /
fees. But such is the patriotism of the !
average EngliShman and such Is the |
strength of the conservative organiZa- /
ton. that it will be surprising if Lord /
Salisbury's majority is even apprecl- /
ably weakened
This mere tally Of votes, however, /
must not be construed as a real index t
of national feeling. for many man /
will go to the government lobby VINO /
outside has privately declared some /
one ought TO be hanged for maladmln1s- /
tratiOn, and fiat if Lord Salisbury did /
not disasssociate himself from the sys- j
tenn of culprits responsible for the ma /
tional humiliation, he must eventually |
take the consequences,
The inner circles OF the government /
are perfectly well aware of such an
eventuality, but they have no fears for |
the immediate future, implicitly De- /
lieving in a successful climax of the /
war and trusting it will offset the im- |
tial blunders.
Opposition Is Divided.
Another cogent reason for prOphesy- !
ing that the session will be barren or /
changes affecting the balance Of power, /
is that the opposition apparently IS
hopelessly divided. Nothing showed /
this better than Mr.. John Morley |
speech at Forfar, Jan. "a, when, for /
the first time, he publicly sneered at |
Lord RoSeberry, who numbers among /
his devoted adherents such brilliant |
liberals as II, r. Asquith and Sir Ed /
ward Grey.
Lord Roseberry's magnificent speech /
this 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 4
ability to face a national crisis safely !
and perhaps it is not stretching the
bow to say he today commands British /
confidence to a 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 admirable out Of
Office that one would risk putting !
him in With Mr. Morley so bitterly /
opposed to the ROseberry section of the /
liberals, and Sir Henry Campbell-Ban- !
herman such a nOn-committal nOnen- |
tity that his own party press scarcely /
ever refers to him, the liberals have /
no leader upon whom to unite, even 1
should they cohese sufficiently TO make /
a determined attempt to GUST the gov /
eminent
Tactics Of Opposition.
So it is probable the OppositiOns tao |
tics viii be Of the guerilla order, con- /
tenting themselves with putting up Sir |
Charles Dixie and others to criticiSe in [
dividual points, ard while not directly
challenging a vote upon the morality
of the war and the governments wag-
ing of il for fear of mourning the ac-
cusation Of being unpatriotic, achieving
the same and by vigorous academic
criticism of the ante-bellum diplomacy,
bringing uD TIE Jameson raid skele-
ton and demanding the production of
the withheld correspondence, which
was referred to by Mr.. B r Hawksley,
counsel for Mr., Cecil Rhodes, in the
I
pendent Beige.
This line Of policy, however, viii not
prevent the Irish members and most
of the advanced liberals from bringing
to vote most sweeping measures Of cen
sure But the liberal leaders Of all
sections are likely to abstain from
supporting the war itself which has
now Oeen in progress over three
months, and the British position is
Vii To-
lily assembled TO grant supplies.
Underestimated the Enemy.
An eminent British general, review
ing the situation to a representative of
the Associated Press. thus summed it
up: First of all we underestimate
the enemy. Secondly, we knew moth
ing of the power of modern weapons
when opposed TO each other in the
hands Of tOlerably equal forces. Third
ly. we deserted strategy to satisfy SEN !
timent. BY that I mean Ladysgnitd
and Kimberley appealed to US, and we
answered as quickly and unthinkingly
as does an electric receiver to a trans
mitter.
we have learned many things. but
chiefly we have learned that long
range guns and rifles minimize tremen-
dOusiy the advantage which formerly
accrued TO the aggressOr. Yet 1 thor
eughly believe, and I am not speaking
without experience. that had any con-
tinental nation undertaken the same
, task with the same force it would by
this time have been wiped out. There :
are a lot of things which we might
have learned haG we watched your
lard fighting at Santiago. But we did
not. As a result, we did not have nip
pers to cut wire and we knew nothing
about MaUsers- But the appreciation
of our shortcomings only makes US the
more determined. 1t may be six months
and Il may be a year, but We shall
achieve our object"
Bravery Of the Men.
From the field of party strife and
military criticism il is a relief to turn
TO an extract from a letter OF an officer
at the front, who writes:
IAN orderly wac bringing some water
to a wounded man lying on the ground
near me, shot through the abdomen. I
He could hardly speak, owing to the
dryness Of his mouth, but he said
Take it to my pal first. He's worse
hit than me-
After reading this one can under !
stand that General Butler did not slop
over when he wired: The men are
splendid.
Professor Goodwin Smith writes to
the Speaker one of the most mislesd- /
4 ing letters which could possibly be put
before the British public. 1t Commences
by saying:
I suppose the donors of the Maine
thought they were paying compliment
TO America in calling it by that name.
but really they were pricking the
American conscience. as there are few
things more certain than that the
Maine was blown uD bv the fe-nitfnc- [