The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-13


pers Complain.
Copyright 1900, by the Associated Press)
London, May 12.-The Beers seem TO be
on the eve Of playing their last card, and
according to many keen observers in Eng
land it is being played, not in South
Africa, but in the United States through
the medium of the Boer delegates who
sailed for New York from Rotterdam last
week. As the bU.k Of British opinion does
not contemplate for moment that Mr.
Fischer and his companions will achieve
success, it is only natural that serious
thought is confidently devoted to prognos-
ucating the date when the war in the
Transvaal will be ended.
Most estimates concur in agreeing that
hOSulitieS VIII have ceased by June, when
President Kruger learns that the last
country appealed to, namely the United
States, will afford no help and that he has
no alternative in the face of the over
Whelmtng force now VIGOROUSLY sweep
ing into his territory but to sue for peace.
What Great Britain's answer TO that re-
quest viii be was Enthusiastically defined
by Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary
of state for the colonies, at Birmingham
yesterday when he declared that the Boer
republics must become a crown colony
whose initial stage of organization will be
controlled by a military administration.
BY agreeing 10 these terms President
Kruger must. of course, give up all for
which he has been fighting.
Have Faith in Roberts.
But on the other hand, now that terms
nave been so emphaucally enunciated,
they must either be granted or England
will stand defeated. The latter alterna-
tive, however, does not enter England
category OF possibilities. Her people are
firmly convinced that Lord Roberts will
steadily advance, perhaps with delays and
losses of daredevil units and maybe
without infiicting crushing defeat until
he occupies the Transvaal. His forward
progress they believe viii be stopped only
when President Kruger. learning Of the
failure Of FischeT's mission, asks Tor
peace.
That this Will come sooner than previ-
ously expected is the trend of popular
opinion 4 long seige of Pretoria has
become a remote contingency. Sharp
fights at Kroonstad and on the Vsal
river, series Of rear guard actions with
constantly retreating forces. an organized
development Of a hostile country and then
BY June OF perhaps earlier. peace ard
occupation. such is the average fore
cast OF the struggle in South Africa. May
De il is altogether too optimistic, but the
present successes of the British arms
and the evidence Of their well defined
plans and excellent organization forms
Australian Federation.
In comparison with what 100000 British
troops have been doing in South Africa
during the week the events in England
itseI are perhaps unimportant Yet they
TEEN with human interest and interna-
uonal Importance. First ard foremost
is the question of Australian federation.
ceaselessly speaking pleasant words TO
London audiences through the luxurious
medium of public dinners and luncheons,
TO say nothing of. copioJs press interviews,
but meanwhile are lighting Colonial Sec
rotary Chamberlain tooth and nail in an
endeavOr to maintain Australia'S Objec-
ton to having the English privy council
as a final court Of appeal for local cases.
No compromise has yet been reached
and Mr.. Chamberlain will shortly intro
duce the subject of federal ton in the house
Of commons advocating that the bill be
passed as forwarded TO Australia with
the exception of an amendment granting
the prtvy council the power mentioned
above
Presumably the commons will follow
the governments lead. What Australia
will do remains to be seen. The ohli-
cation subordinating the highest colonial
courts 10 the prtvy council, under which
Canada now labOrs, may wreck the whole
scheme Of federation.
While imperial politics are interesting,
home matters are equally so. The Outlook
semi humOrOuSly sums ID these matters
by reporting Lord Salisbury as saying:
Let US have rife clubs everywhere and
let the young maidens fetch their faith
ers dinner and beer
Salisbury's Opposition to Temperance
This reference TO beer is not half so
facetiCus as might appear. Lord Sails
bury's outspoken opposition to radical
temperance measures in the house of
lords on Tuesday will probably afford the
basis for one of the strongest Dlanks of
he r1Na for a 0a ola
ton. Confronted by the united archbish-
ops and bishops, the premier spoke more
frankly upon the temperance question
than almost any leading man in English
The Saturday Review, interpreting Lord
SalisbuTy's recent generahsm regarding
hatred toward England and the necessity
or arming the country as especially aD-
plicable TO the United States, declares:
During the Cuban war there We're a
large number of people in this country
who sympathiZed with Spain, but they
kept their feelings strictly to themselves
Not a discorde1t note was heard in our
press and the British government pre-
vented a combination of European powers
that would have thrown the American
government on its back. How do the
United States repay us? We We're treated
to all kinds of intrigues over the Alaskan
boundary and the Nicaraguan canal; and
now at least half the American press and
nation loudly proclaim their sympathy
with the Beers and are organizing recep-
lions for their delegates. We shall have
TO defend our empire and must do it, as
Lord Salisbury says With our right
arm"
Call it Political Agitation.
This is interesting comment but It
neither represents the best informed nor
the popular opinion. Lord Salisbury had
no idea of referring to American pro-Boer
when speaking at the
meeting of the Primrose league More
over, these manifestations are popularity
regarded in England, thanks TO the cable
DISPATCHES of English correspondents, as
nothing but a temporary effervescence of
political agitation in a country on the
verge of an election. and as such of no
serious import
The Speaker, commenting upon Russian
railroad and territorial aggression in
China. declares that Lord Salisbury and
Mr. Chamberlain cannot protect British
interests, real or imaginary, in any part
OF the world, and that the United States
have been the only guardians of our in
terests in China, while Lord Salisbury
has been a helpless looker-on.
The dispute in the Dotteries trade now
involves 20 600 men, many of whom be-
long to no union and are therefore de-
pendent upon charity. The manuf r.
ers insist upon closing down their Ks
rather than give in to the DENT pr