The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
\ Fight to Finish Looked for in
south Africa

4 Fight to "a Finish Looked for in
| south Africa
| LONDON. March ga fight to the
bitter end at whatever cost. That is the
moral that the Ministry and their sup
porters draw frbm :he abortive peace ne
| gntiaions. tBest the Beers till they cry
enough is tod5y's demand. The Spec
! tator' cuforces this view by asking what
would now berthe condition of the United
States if the North had patched up peace
with the South on their terms and not
on the only conditions which allowed oil
permanent p+ace.
| Truth to tell. large body of Ministe-
| riaiists rejoice at General Botha's re
! fusal, for tney learned yesterday with
dismay that even Mr. Chamberlain was
| willing, firstly. to coucede the use OF
| Dutch talk in the courts and Legisia-
| ture. thus perpetuating upon the horth
| and south banks of the Vaal River the
racial intrisues which paralyze progress
| at Cape Colony. and, secondly, TO pay
one million sterling for goods requsitioned
| by Beers from Beers, thus encouraging
the enemy in their resistance; and, third
| ", to exempt the Beers from the war tax
| thus throwing the cost of the war on
the loyalists AID British taxpayers, ana
making them pay for loans to place the
enemy back on their farms. Ministerial
lists say that peace would be too dear
at such a price. They dread lest these
terms though withdrawn, should form
basis for ultimate settlement.
Spring began this week according to the
calendar, but the biting east winds, the
black trees, and the generally nipped con-
dition of things make it difficult to realize
the fact With the spring come doleful
tales from the English farming counties
The calling out of the reserves for the
South African war on the top of the gen.
eral drift into the towns of recent years
has left the farmer Iaborless. Local news
papers are full of advertisements Tor
farm laborers, and not even the excep-
tionally high wages for England OF - per
week. with free cottage and garden. bring
applicants Many farmers. consequently,
are compelled to do away with their dal-
ries. Here and there is talk OF mix
famine, though townsfolk know well
enough that imported Swiss condensed
milk will fill any gaps in the supply Not
few of the London dairy companies ad-
vertise in today's papers for milk in the
counties round London.
Meanwhile the imports of cheese, but
ners of the earth increase by leaps and
bounds, and the official Board of Agricul-
ture yawns itself to sleep in Whitehall.
In the farming districts there linger
hopes that the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer may yet. in his extremity for
money. be induced to tax imported wheat
in some way or other, but all such expec-
tation has died out in serious political cir
cles. Imported sugar may, however, have
to bear a substantial part of the new tax
ation and this week friends of the West
Indies here have been busy attempting
TO educate the public up to the notion
that the West Indies ought to be exempt
ed. so that the full weight of the duties
may fall upon the bounty-fed products of
France, Austria. and Germany.
To quicken the Chancellor, Sir Neville
Lubbock. Chairman of the West Indian
Committee uses the report Of the Chicago
Consul upon the beet sugar industry in
his district, as an evidence that the United
States. with Cuba. soon will supply all the
sugar the United States needs, and the
West Indies then will lose their foothold
in the only market where they compete
on equal terms with Germany and France.
He virtuously protests against British
colony being left thus dependent on the
good will of a foreign country, and urges
that one-eighth of a penny increase on
each pound of sugar is little enough for
the British consumer to pay for the in
dustrial welfare of those emeralds in the
crown, the West Indian colonies. For all
that. the Chancellor will encounter stiff
political breezes If he does alight on
sugar. for behind the free-traders in this
matter stand the huge industries depend
ent on cheap sugar.
English Liberalism is inclined to take
cue from the United States in educational
policy The Government has a new edu-
cational bill awaiting Parliament. in which
the general authority for all schools will
be created on a nominated basis, each
county council nominating its school COM
mittee. The Liberal party is expected to
oppose this with proposal for directly
elected educational body In each county |
with authority over all grades of schools |
primary. technical. and secondary. a body |
elected solely for educational purposes in |
other words, universal school boards In /
arge areas. Anglicanism would strenu- !
Ously resist, of course. but Anglicanism /
Is showing itself to be a dying force in |
popular education.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has been much in /
The public mind here this week. One /
lumorist today presents him with a new /
md glorious outlet for his alleged forty /
lne superfiuous millions You believe"
says the humorist, that Anglo-American-
SIN is built to run the world Instead of (
your money away In odd mil
ions plunge right off and build forty-nne
to be at the joint disposal of
England and America for phllanthropic
md police purposes So give Anglo Sax
,nry control of the world. and get for
Yourself a glory and fame which would
out very much in the shade Caesar
shakespeare. and the present Mr.. Andrew
1t is" he adds. quite simple
You have the money. Waltz right in and
scoop the pool" The suggestion. ridIcu-
Gus as it is, opens up unpleasant sug-
Of t,a