The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
British Imperialists Pleased mt Mr..
Mckinley's denomination.

British Imperialists Pleased mt Mr..
Mckinley's denomination.
LONDON. June 23.-President McKin-
ley's nomination has. of course, pleased all
Engiishmen who are for Imperialism,
though in the presence OF Chinese and
South African problems it is scantily dis
cussed. The Spectator tucks 1t away
into note with such comment as this:
Altogether. the Republican programme is
moderate and the choice for President is
as good as circumstances permitted. Nc
Kinley is possibly little too much OF a
politician, but he has won and receives
international respect"
Even the anti American Saturday Re-
view" finds the Republican platform rep
utable. On the other hard, the anti-impe-
rialist Speaker" calls is vague and COM
monplace, thoroughly ptotectionist. dis
honest. leo. and manifestly concocted in
the interests of the great millionaires.
From Lincoln and Seward to Mckinley
and Hanna. what a facilis descensus! We
will not conclude the quotation. for We
have faith in the power of the American
Republic to right ITSELF
The shade Of Cromwell still troubles
the Parliament which he once turned into
the street. On Thursday. the enterprising
Tory peer who owns the Saturday Re-
view" made a iinal tilt at the Cromwell
statue, which the munificence OF Lord Rose
berry has placed in the precincts OF st.
Stephens Hall. He wished the statue TO
be removed, on the ground that England
should not honor the greatest enemy Il
her crown and church. He put an awful
case to the House OF Lords: III. he said.
the Radicals can honor such man, with a
Tory Government in power. why should
they not, when themselves in power, erect
statues to President Kruger and Guy
Fawkes?"
Lord Salisbury was in his best gliding
form. and treated Lord Hardwick to re-
vival of his old Saturday Review" NM
ner. The statue, he said solemnly, as If
dealing with some international prob EN-.
is placed in hole, a sufficient proof Of the
punishment just monarchical government
inflicted on a rebel and regicide.
IN an endeavor to cap this cynicism, Lord
Morris suggested that Lord Rosebery erect
ed this statue to spite the nonconformists,
Who found offence in his racing associa-
tions, and to remind them that their po-
litical saint was, himself, patron Of the
turf.
Another bit Of Salisburyian cynicism has
this week provoked no little stir. Speaking
ct the bicentenary meeting Of the Society
for the Propagation Of the Gospel. the
Premier urged prudence and moderation
in missionary enterprise in a way that has
proved most unpalatable to his clerical
allies. He took as his text the Eastern
proverb, First missionary, then consul.
then general" and warned missionaries
against so acting as to foster the idea cur
rent, at least in China, that missionary
work was a mere instrument of the sec
ular government. He dwelt fondly on the
days when the murder of round dozen Of
missionaries caused no single pang. They
earned. their martyrs crown, while Eng
lands Foreign Office looked another way.
Of course, the Church papers and the mis-
sionaries at once retort that II Is not 50
much the missionaries who have changed
as the foreign ministers of christendom.
who. in their craving for lands. leases. and
usufructs, exploit even the preacher Of
the gospel.
Dr. Donaldson Smith has brought an In
teresting account TO London Of his adven-
furious African journey across the unex-
ploredd tract of country between Lake Ru-
dolph and the White Nile He was the first
white man to reach the river. approaching
it from the Somali Coast. and travelling al
most due west He began his journey Gu
August l, 1899, and reached Fort Berkeley,
near Lado on March II OF this year Dr.
Smith says that he came through almost
entirely unmolested by natives; had no oe-
casion to fire shot in self-defence AMI
lost only two men out OF the small force of
eighteen Goorkhas who formed his escort,
this being the first time ex-soldiers of the
Indian army have accompanied an expeii-
ton of this character. On reaching the
Nile Smith sent his men with Mr. Fraser,
the naturalist. home by way Of Uganda ard
Mombasa, while he himself stayed at the
fort for six weeks. and returned with Major
Peake and his sudd-cutting expedition, by
way of Khartoum to Cairo
In addition to important geographical OBJ
servations. Dr. Smith obtained large and
valuable collection of specimens of the
fauna Of Central Africa. which elucidate
questions Of geographical distribution.
General Bafen-P Powell has decided to re-
fuse the many publishers offers made to
him to write an account OF the Mafeking
siege. The reception now being 5iven to
reprints OF his accounts of the Matabele
and Ashantee wars indicates the eagerness
with which the public would take up
new book by him. but the general. in
view of his military promotion and forth
coming honor of X. c. B., feels that he
should not identify himself with the shill-
crowd of war correspondents
and amateur specialists. His book should
follow in leisurely historian fashion.
Halfpenny journalism In London is not
the good thing 1t looks. Arthur Pearson.
whose Daily Express" is London's latest
journal. has informed the public
this week that he Is losing $3.50 day on
his paper. that the cost of the plant and
preliminary work made the first issue
worth $500, GEO. that to establish the .Ex-
press will cost s1,200.0O0 and two years.
very hard work. and that the next person |
who wants to establish daily paper in |
London must spend two and half million |
dollars.