The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Lord Rosebury's Answer

Lord Rosebury's Answer
 The generalisms with which Lord Sails bury answered and has answered since the war began, thereby keenly irritating such influential organs of his own party as the London Times, Standard, Morning Post and Telegraph, are the studied utterances of experienced statesman, who is just as much aware of their political inadvisa- bility as any of his critics, for through lais subordinates, he keeps in close touch witch popular feeling. Hence, an underlying mo- tive must be looked for and there is a growing impression that Lord Salisbury is sacrificing politics to what he rightly or wrongly believes to be the statesmanship of the last quarter of a century His strength, patriotism and diplomacy have often been severely tested and not found wanting, hence the idea of his continued refusal to take the nation into his conf- dence at this crisis is prompted by motives of the highest importance. The conduct of the foreign office, where there is not the slightest inclination to underestimat te the difficulties or overestimate the national pabilities, certainly bears out this solution of the enigma that puzzles the conserva- tives much as 1t provides capital for the liberals. A reasonable supposition was suggested by well-known peer, who said "It is more than likely that Lord Sails bury, though seeing immediate likeli- hood of foreign complications, wishes to prepare for the contingency and be able to meet it with a free hand, unfaltered by any recent utterances confessing weakness or exposing strength
 Demanded Naval Mobilization
 In support of this, it is interesting to ob- serve that at the moment Lord Roseberry was demanding naval mobilzat tion. the ad- miralty was engaged in instituting the pre- liminaries of that very move, by ascertain ing at all the naval ports the number of ships that could be immediately commits stoned, and issuing orders for three battle ships and three cruisers, all of the reserve, to coal at once in order to be ready for commissioning in they were required. Yet, from Lord Salisbuhys dilettante re- ply to Lord Roseberry no one would have thought this last step was contemplated The possibility of having the Zulus as allies has come rather as shock to the British But on the whole, the logic of their right of self-defence and the duty of Great Brit
 
 savage race are taken as justification for MT. Joseph Chamberlain's views.
 It is more than probable that native In- dian troops will be eventually used in South Africa. There is a strong element in fa- vor of this step and it is likely it would have been taken long ago, but fear of the non-cenformist conscience and other re- ligio-political infants for the announce ment of the intention to employ Indian troops in the war coming on top of the Zulu announcement would have been a bit ter pill for many people to swallow.
 A Strange Situation
 It is a strange anomaly to find Great Britain, the home of the emigrant, threaten- ed by the immigrant, yet such is the case. Industrial activity and the increase in wages in the United Kingdom have attract ed hordes of continental labor. Last month alone about four thousand immigrants ar rived, large increase in the average. The Globe plaintively remarks: "When the present wave of prosperity is succeeded by wave of diversity, we shall have on our hands a multitude of foreigners eagerly competing for the bread which ought by right to nourish the native born. We have no government machinery for sitting out paupers and returning them to their own countries as they should be treated.
 Lord Dunraven seems to be losing all in- terest in yachting. By reason of his failure to attend the requisite number of meetings last year of the Yacht Racing association, he. so the announcement politely puts it, 'ceases to be ce-presfdent"
 Lady Hesketh is the latest American to take an active part in the affairs of the hos pitalship Maine, having opened a subscrlp- tion here with e10O. Lady Hesketh Is a daughter of Senator Sharon.
 De Wolf Hopper closed his London en- gagement tonight. MT. and Mrs. Hopper and other members of the company were recalled repeatedly. After the performance