The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-28
With lmpassioned Denunciations are
All That is Expected.
THE OPPOSITION is DIVIDED.
This Was Plainly Shown When Mr..
John Morley Publicly snecrcd at
Lord I;oscbery's Specch-Thcy
will Content Themselves
With Critic;sinS Indi-
yidua. Points.

copyrighted 1900, by Associated Press)
! LONDON. jan 2I-Though the criti-
cisms Of the government and it's methods
of handling the war is iunabated, il is
safe to say, that when Parliament meets
Tuesday next, nothing serious Will re
suit There will be the usual motions OF
censure, with, perhaps, more tnan usuialiy
denunciations of the various
departments OF the administration, es-
lpecially the War and Colonial Oflces'
but such is the patriotism OF the aver
age Englishman and the sertngth of the
Conservative organization that 1t Will DE
surprising if Lord Salisbury's majority
is even appreciaby weakened. This mere
tally of votes, however, must not pc con-
strued as a real index or national 1cei-
ms for many man Will go to the gov
ernment lobby who outside has privately
declared some one ought TO pe nlnSea
for mal-administration, and that If Lord
Salisbury did not disassociate himself
from the system CT culprits RESPONSIBLE
for the national humiliation, he must
eventually take the consequences
The inner circles are perfectly Well
aware OF such an eventually. out Trey
have no fears for the immediate rGture,
implicitly believing in successful cll1naN
Of the war and trusting it will offset tie
initial bIunders.
Another cosent reason for prophesying
that the session will be barren of changes
affecting the balance Of power. Is that the
opposition, apparently, is hopeessiy di-
yided Nothing showed this better than
AIr. John AIorley's speech at Forfar. Jan
uary Z4th, when for the first time he
publicly sneered at Lord Rosebery, VINO
numbers among his devoted adherents
such brilliant Liberals as Mr.. Fl. Il. AS
quith and Sir Edward Grey.
.IMPOSSIRIEE TO UNITE.
Lord Eoseoeryis magnificent speech that
week, and the speeches which he mas
recently delivered have been convincing
men Of all parties of his exceptional
breadth Of mind, patriotism ana aolilt!
to face national crisis sanely, and, per-
haps. it is not stretching the bow to
say he to-day commands British con-
tidence to a greater extent than Lord
Salisbury, yet it is impossible for the
Liberals to unite on him, and, as the
Saturday Review says: He is so ad-
mirable out of office that no one would
risk putting him in.
With Morley so bitterly opposed 10 the
Rosebery section of the Liberals, ana SIr
Henry Campbell-Bannerman such d nom
committal nonentity that his own parry
press scarcely ever refers to him, the
Liberals have no leader upon whom to
unite, even should they cohese sufficiently
to make a determined attempt TO Gust
the government, SO it is probable that
the oppoSitions tactics Will be OF tte
guerilla order, contentng themselves with
putting up. Sir Charles Dixie and others
TO critcse individual points, and Whlie
not directly challenging vote Ulon the
morality of the war and the govern.
-nent's wagng of it for fear OF mourning
Of l,ai,,r
ing the end by vigorous academic c:iti-
cism OF the ante-bellum diplomacy, bring
ing up the Jameson raid skeleton and de-
uauiing the production of the With
held correspondence which was referred
to nv Mr.. 8. f. Hawklsey. counsel for
Cecil Rhodes in the letters recently pub
lished by the Independence Beige.
MEASURES OF CENSURE.
This line of policy, however, vii! not
prevent the Irish members and rnoS- CT
the advanced Liberals from bringing 20
vote most sweeping measures Of censure.
Eut the Liberal leaders of all secttons are
likely to abstain from supporting the war
itself. which has now been in pr9S' ess
over three months and the British Io:''-
ton is worse than when Parliamen. was
hastily assembled to grant supplies
An eminent British general. reviewing
the campaign thus summed 1t up: 1arst
of AL. we uNueT-eStllVdteu Inc SiiS-AA!
s1cnnGly, we knew nothing of the power
Of modern weapons when opposed to each
other in the hands of to!erably equal
forces; thirdly, we deserted strategy to
satisfy sentiment. BY that | mem
I.od.smith and Kimberley appealed y US
ana we answered as quickly and as uu-
thing rgly as does an electric receiver TO
a treinSMitter.
We have learned many things, but,
chiefly, we have learned that long-cange
guns and rifles minimize tremendously
the advantage which formerly accrued
to the aggressor. Yet, l thoroughly be-
lieve, and I am not speaking without
experiences, that had any continental ma
ton undertaken the same task with the
same force it would by this time have
been wiped out. There are lot of
things which might have been learned
had we watched the land-fighting at San
tiaso. but we did not. AS a result, we
did not have nippers to cut wires and we
knew nothing about Mausers. But TIE
appreciation of our shortcomings only.
makes US the more determined It may
be six months and it may be year, but,
we shall achieve our object