Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-18
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LONDON, March 17.-Between the
lines of the politely worded editorial
comments on President McKinley's ex-
preston of willingness to aid in the
restoration of peace between Great
Britain and the Boer republics can be
discerned many evidences of an inward
irritation, which the less responsible
public does not hesitate to outwardly
express, while even members of the
government privately display pique
that of all the powers America should
have consented to assume what one
official designated as the "ungracious
role of suggesting some form of inter
ference" to which he added this ex-
preston: "Englishmen cannot help
contrasting the perfect correctness of
the attitude of openly unfriendly
France with the offer of the United
States, which, if it had come from a
less disinterested source, could only
have been regarded as an unfriendly
act"
There is no doubt that the overtures
of the United States, even though so
carefully worded, have sensibly irri-
tated Great Britain as whole, while
circles especially friendly to the United
States express open regret at the op-
portunity offered to critics to compare
the refusal of M. Delcasse the French
| minister of foreign affairs, to crafty
the hostile sentiment in France by
making proposals to Lord Salisbury,
which were sure of rejection with what
they testify call the interference" of
Washington, and which. though only
tentative and clothed in words
OF Perfect FriendIiness
| and courtesy, come at an imopportune
| moment when the supreme self-suffi-
| cheney of the British empire is the pre-
dominating feeling of the day.
Everywhere one hears expressions of
satisfaction that, while the answer to
| the proposal was clothed in words of
perfect courtesy, the language of Lord
| Salisbury in brushing aside" Presi-
dent McKinley's offer was so extreme
| ly definite as to kill all possibility OF
repetition of the offers from any
| source, unless those proposing them
are DESTROYS of being recognized as
| openly antagonistic to this country
| Emphasis is laid on the fact that Great
Britain declared at the outset her I'M
Willingness to consent to any outside
interference, and, therefore, as ac-
cording to the we'll established prin-
ciple of international law that the
right of intervention is conditional on
the Willingness of both parties to the
quarrel to accept the good offices of a
medlating power, such interference
was, in this case, outside the bounds
OF diplomatic possibilities and gave
Lord Salisbury full justification for his
"retort courteous"
Out side the high international pol
ltlcs, Ireland and the shamrock largely
monopolize the attention of London.
The internecine strife in the Nation
alistic ranks engendered by the Dublin
corporations address to the queen
and the bitterness felt in loyalist cir
cles in Ireland at her majesty, keep
the officials guessing as to what is
likely to occur at the Irish capital
next month. An official in the office
of the chief secretary for Ireland, Mr..
Gerald Balfour said he was not sur
prised at the Nationalist opposing the
address of welcome, which, necessar-
lily, was
Either Hypocrisy or a Lie,
in addition to which it would go far
to stop the flow of American contri-
buttons" Speaking of the queens visit
the same official said he had little
doubt that Wigs would litter Dublin
green" before the visit was con-
Guided
OF the 100000 which the govern
ment purposes to spend in developing
the volunteers, s250000 will be spent,
at the rate of SO per man, to encour-
age each regiment to form a company
of bicyclists, Lord Lansdowne. the
secretary of war. and Mr.. George
Wyndham, the parliamentary secre-
ldT1 tOT IUe Wal Oulc6, DpLn IlQ6 the
wheel, and they know from personal
experience what can be done with the
machine on the fine English roads.
OF course they do not expect the sol
diers to use the wheels on the South
African plains or in the Indian hill
country, but they aver that in assem-
bling for home defense and in concen-
trating at any point on the coast bat
talions of bicyclists could transport
themselves and their arms and am
munition and emergency rations with
less fatigue and with as much speed
as though on horseback. A volunteer
trained to the use of the bicycle
would have at hand for instant use
the means of reaching. by direct
road, point of mobilization, possibly
twenty or fifty miles distant With
a bicle ii would be as though a charg-
er stood ready saddled at the volun-
teer's door.
A Quaint, Venerable Lady
who might, to all appearances, have
just stepped out of Goldsmith COM
edy or a Gainsborough picture died
this week in the person Of Lady John