The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
picked argument TO maintain through
Lord Pauncefote.
Little Hope From Republicans.

picked argument 10 MAINTAIN through
Lord Pauncefote.
Little Hope From Republicans.
ssAnd. too. we shall not be very siren
uously defended by the Republicans.
President Mckinley will persist on his
policy and carry his party with him,
but still ne is the American candidate
for the presidency and cannot bear,
with the second term at stake, to lose a
vote
MIR Mckinley, therefore, and the
Republican leaders viii do nothing to
show themselves friends of Great Brit
ain. They will utter no plain protest
against the chorus of ignorant proba-
ton. and will view with dismay any ap-
pearance on this side of any hearty
wish for Republican success.
I'VE must, however, possess our souls
in patience and receive American CEN
sure with that logged stolidity with
which we receive censure from the re-
mainder of the world. The electoral
campaign will come to an end and
with it most of the attacks upon Great
Britain The better opinion in the
United States, including, we believe, a
majority of the population, is upon the
whole friendly to us. and fully con-
WINGED that all the world over British
and American interests are the same.
to trade in peace.
Will Respect the Queen.
"Of one thing we may be sure, the
Americans will not caricature the
queen. In the fiercest of their electoral
battles they will respect the aged lady
who, forty years ago, was on their
side in the civil war, and who is now
the only monarch in Europe who
watches their prosperity with ungrudg-
ing pleasure and without the idea that
their growth, wealth and influence is a
menace to the world.
This article voices better than any
thing that has recently appeared the
tone of the continent towards America
held by British government officials,
and by those who are seriously inter
ested in the relations Of the two cOun-
tries
The statement that the senate will
not ratify the ay-PauncefOte conven-
ton this year has created little COM
ment. Those who maintain that Eng
land had given something for nothing
in the Nicaragua agreement express
pleasure and hope that it will never
be ratified. while those who supported
the convention accept the postponement
of action as the most advisable step in
view of political conditions in the Unit
ed States.
The Saturday Review SAYS: ''Wheth-
or MeKinley's attitude regarding South
Africa will remain equally correct de-
Dends entirely. not on his sentiments
toward US, but upon the success of Lord
Roberts"
Dependent Over War.
The unsatisfactory turn that has re-
Gently marked the campaign against
the Beers is resulting in astonishing
and sweeping criticisms by the Eng
lish papers of their own army methods.
When Butler struck snags in Natal,
when General Methuen and General
Gatacre made terrible mistakes, and
before the British arms had secured
any progress. a somewhat similar wave
swept over the press But then il was
directed at individuals, and chiefly con-
fined to papers which were willing TO
cOndescend TO slang one or several
generals.
Now names are not mentioned, but
there is widespread, deeply rooted con-
VictiOn that the method of selection of
British army officers is altogether
wrong. About this conviction there is
no bitterness, nor is it based upon con-
illusions rapidly arrived at.
Our officers" says the conservative
common sense Outlook. "are as brave
as lions, but as rule they are stupid"
The warmest champions of our regi-
mental officers" says the Saturday Re
view, "are beginning sOrroWfully to adj
NIT that their courage often makes
them careless, and wher not negligent
they sometimes show themselves ig-
nOrant Of their business"
Vanity Fair, which formerly de-
nOunced vigorously any such forms of
criticism, admits sorrowfully that "our
officers seem to play at war. rather
than to carry on war. 1t is all wrong"
Want Better Officers.
But beneath this outcry against in
dividual incompetence and lack of
brains on the part of the army officers,
which, since the war began. has been
instantly causing the loss of detach-
ments and positions, and especially
during the last fortnight. there is an
underlying and sometimes expressed
determination that Englands army
must not longer be differed by men
whose claims to commissions rest al
most solely on birth and money. In
other words, the army must be 80
changed that an officer can live on his
pay. and thus attract to it's rank the
hardest elements of the race--the
young man who relies on his brains
alone to make his way in the world.
This is not the result of agitation by
n de1nagogic press, or the less influence
section of the public. 1t is an almost
unanimous deduction drawn from the
lessons of the present war by papers
controlled in many cases by aristecrats,
by organs that are VIGOROUSLY reluc-
tant to lend their influence to popular
movements, and by the keenest and
most unbiased students Of national in
situations, including members Of the
cabinet itself
The premature self congratulation
over the occupation of Bloemfontein
has had a reaction somewhat similar
TO that which followed the first vic
tories in Natal As the Saturday Re-
view says: TOO soon did we cOngrat-
ulate ourselves on the possession Of
BiOemfontein, and too little did we re-
alize that the possession Of such a cap
ital does not imply much"
1t then proceeds to instance the cap
tuTe of Philadelphia by the British in
the war for independence, showing its
uselessness and eventual evacuation.
GAY PARIS N HOLIDAY ATTIRE