The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-28


takes of Judgment and Action Are
Pointed .Out-An Ugly SIur Upon
Americans.
Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 27.-Though criticism
of the government and its methods of
handling the war is unabated, 1t is safe
te-say that when parliament meets, Tues
day next, nothing serious will result.
There will be the usual motions Of CEN
sure, with, perhaps, more than usually
impassioned denunciations of the vari-
Gus departments of the administration,
especially the war and colonial offices.
But such is the patriotism Of the aver
age Englishman, and such is the strength
of the Conservative organization, that it
will be surprising if Lord Salisbury Is
even appreciably weakened.
This mere tally of votes, however must
tional feeling, for many man will go
to the government lobby who, outside, has
privately declared some one ought to be
charged with maladministration, and that
If Lord Salisbury did not disassociate
himself from the system or culprits re-
sponsible for the national humiliation he
must eventually take the chances. The
Inner circles of the government are per-
fectly well aware of such an eventuality,
but they have no fears for the immediate
future, implicitly believing in success
ful climax of the war, and trusting it
will offset the initial blunders.
Az L.
that the session will be barren OF changes
affecting the balance Of power is that the
opposition, apparently. is hopelessly di-
vided. Nothing showed this better than
Mr.. John Morley's speech at Forfar, Jan.
"a, when, for the first time, he publicly
sneered' at Lord Rosebery, who numbers
among his devoted adherents such bril-
liant Liberals as Mr. H. H. Asquith and
Sir Edward Grey. Lord Rosebery's mag
nificent speech this week, and the speech
es which he has recently delivered, have
been convincing men of all parties of. his
exceptional breadth of mind, patriotism
and ability to face a national crisis sane
ly. and perhaps it is not stretching the
bow to say that today he commands the
British confidence to a greater extent
than Lord Salisbury. Yet it is Impossible
for the Liberals to unite on him, and, a
the Saturday Review says "he is SO ad-
n1irable out of office that no one would
risk putting him In"
HOPELESSLY DIVIDED.
With Mr.. Morley SO bitterly opposed to
the Rosebery section of the Liberals and
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman such
non-committal nonentity that his own
party press scarcely ever refers TO him.
the Liberals have no leader upon whom
to unite, even should they coalesce suffi-
ciently to make determined attack
against the government, SO 1t is probable
the oppositions tactics will be of the
guerrilla order, contenting themselves with
putting up Sir Charles Dixie and others
to criticise individual points and while
not directly challenging a vote up5n the
advisability of the war and the govern
ment's mode of waging 1t, for fear of in
curing the accusation OF being unpatri-
otic, achieving the same end by vigorous
academic criticisms of the ante bellum
accusations, such as the Jameson raid,
and referring to Mr.. B. F. Hawkesley' S
Counsel for Cecil Rhodes) letters recently
published in the independence Beige.
This line of policy, however, will not
prevent the Irish party and advanced LIB
erals from bringing to vote most sweep
Ing measures of censure. But the Liberal
leaders of all sections are likely to alb
stain from supporting the war itself
which has not been in progress over three
months, and the British position is verse
than when parliament was hastily assem-
bled to grant supplies
SITUATION REVIEWED.
An eminent British general, reviewing
the situation to representative of the
Associated Press, thus summed It un
First, we underestimated the enemy
secondly. we knew nothing of the power OF
modern weapons when opposed to each
other In the hands of tolerably equal
forces; thirdly, we deserted strategy tc
satisfy sentiment. BY that / mean Lady.
smith and Kimberley appealed to u.s. an6
We answered as quickly and unthinkingly
as does an electric receiver to a trans.
mitter
I'VE have learned many things but
chiefly we have learned that long range
guns and rifles minimize tremendously
the advantage which formerly accrued te
the aggressor. Yet l thoroughly believe
and / am not talking without experience
that had any continental nation under.
taken the same task with the same force
ii would by this time have peen wiped
out. There arc a lot of things which
might nave DSeH learned ndO we WdtcneC
your land fighting at Santiago. But VIZ
did not. AS a result we did not have
nippers 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 more
or 1t may be a year, but We shall achieve
our object"
From the field of party strife and mill
tary criticism it is relief to return tC
an extract from a letter of an officer a.
the front, who writes:
IAN orderly was bringing some water
to a wounded man lying on the ground
near us, shot through the abdomen. Ht
could hardly speak, owing to the dryness
of his mouth, but he said: Take 1t to my
pal first. He's worse hit than me- -
After reading this one can understand
how Gen. Butler did not slop over wher
he wired ''The men are splendid
AN UGLY SLUR.
Prof. Goldwin Smith writes to tn,
Speaker. one of the most misleading let
ters which could possibly be put befor,
the British public. 1t commences by say
ing:
II suppose the donors of the Maine
thought they were paying compliment
to America in calling 1t by that name
but really they were pricking the Ameri
can conscience, as there are few thing.
more certain than that the Maine wa.
blown up by the ignition of the coal il
her bunkers The same accident ha.
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