New-York tribune., 1901-07-21
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
LONDON.
r LAST PHASE OF LORD RosEBERY.
.,,crr FURRow AGRICULTURE IN POLL
rrrs-MR. CHAMBERLAIN HELPING WITH
PLANS FOR THE CoRoNATIoN-THE
HEALTH OF THE POPE


PLANS FOR THE coRoNATIoN-THE
HEALTH OF THE POPE.
ooo,v-ieht; 1901: By The New-York Tribune.)
IBY CABLE To THE TRIBUNE.l
,.,son July 20-From hot weather politics
-, nageants there is a merciful deliverance
.-sr Sunday The peers fed to their country
souses after their Turkish bath in scarlet and
wine robes, during which they envied Earl
pueselps privilege Of wearing a cool gray suit
.sen the thermometer was close to ninety
.rsn with the dismal prospect OF spending three
onths IN prison as first class misdemeanant-
end the peeresses scuttled out of town after the
ar,lest ulatinees ever planned for smart society
The mercury has continued to rise. while the
liberals have been ioundering in hot water
The City Liberal Club. which is recruited main
" from the Liberal Unionist followers of Mr.
chamberlain heard Lord Rosebery in an at
rosphere like the breath Of fiery furnace and
the faithful friends of Mr.. Asquith in dining to-
ee,her repeated Sydney Smiths Joke about TAX
,ne off ones flesh and sitting in ones bones.
The weather remains sweltering. but the rail-
way stations have been thronged from an early
hour with refugees from the inclement heat.
The season has ended without further ado. and
the leading theatres are closing tonight, leaving
house half filed.
The trial OF Earl Russell has been generally
dismissed with the unanswerable comment that
40 picturesque ceremony was farcical when
the peer tried for a vulgar felony instead
Of high treason. Lord Rosebery's letter with
oratorcal commentaries is dropped, under the
existing conditions Of temperature, with equal
apathy. Mr. Harmsworth, who is devoted
friend, seeks to acclaim him the founder OF
new party, but a more correct Judgment is that
his career a statesman under the existing
systen Of representative institutions has ended.
His remarkable intellectual gifts will continue
to fascinate his sworn admirers. but England
does not need q statesman who is content to
remain IN splendid isolation. ploughing his own
furrow The task Of running the Liberal party
has been job too complex and thorough to be
worked out by man. The responsibility for
the deplorable Generalization of the opposition
must be shared by many. but to Lord Rosebery's
restlessness and lack Of political instinct may
be ascribed a considerable portion of Glad
stones wasted heritage. He might have Joined
Mr.. Asquith. Sir Henry Fowler and Sir Edward
Grey, and assumed the leadership of the Lib
eral imperialist group which gained a majority
OF the opposition seats last autumn This would
have been a practical method Of working out a
supreme political end within the lines OF the
party; and the Importance of leadership and
fusion is proved by the captured correspondence
OF Mr. Steyn, showing that the despairing Beers
with their ammunition exhausted and with the
hope OF foreign Intervention dispeled as q hol
low mockery, are counting upon Radical disaf-
fection and the growing uneasiness of public
opinion in England. Instead of joining natural
allies and making strong stand he has sepa-
rated himself from them, exposed them to ridi-
cfle
with the strange delusion that in country with
double party system Of government and rep
resentative institutions q new party can be
formed around sensitive and fastidious leader
VINO considers himself above all parties and
never leads. Single furrow agriculture In poll
nos Is sentimental vagary in comparison with
"hicn even ploughing the sands was scientific
process. The formation of a new imperialist
party with democratic tendencies is not a cry
ing public need when Mr.. Chamberlain repre-
senus lhese principles and has secured the con-
hdence Of the self-governing colonies.
MI. r. c. Gould has hit the situation In car
ICONS depicting Mr.. Chamberlain as a wary
lox looking over the fence of the Liberal chicken
garo, where all the game cocks are fighting I'm
perlaisn is his stock in trade and he is con-
stantly pushing his wares into the market.
me conference respecting permanent colonial
representation in an Imperial Court of Appesl is
q iaiIure' since Canada has not been convinced
laal the time has come for changing existing
arrangements, and the proposals of the Colonial
oihce VIII be referred TO each home government
iof deliberate judgment. Mr. Chamberlain is
HOl discouraged, but is planning new scheme
lot stimulating the affection of the loyal
coionist AS the King will be crowned with g.
ne" imperial title the presence Of representative
will ha ind;
The coronation. He is hoping to secure the at
tendance OF the premiers OF all the self-govern-
ing colonies, and 10 have on parade contingents
VI the auxiliary troops which have been fight
ING tne battles Of the Empire. The scheme has
not Deen worked out in detail. but Mr.. Chamber
IAN is alive TO the necessity of converting the
coronation into a splendid imperial fete
foreign affairs remarkably quiet The
nllch between England and Russia over the
NAhese indemnity leads some writer's for the
press to sigh for a modus vivendi Of some kind
between the two foreign Offices by which every
lhlng would be Strengthened out. These p.ous
aspirations are not in accord with the English
cohoemnation of the American policy one year
ago. when The State Department was charged
with having too close an understanding with
Russia. The Quarterly Review has belliger-
ent article on THE British Policy in the Far
East, pointing in the direction of the govern
inent OF China by England. and, if necessary, a
"sr with Russia, fought with Chinese sepoys
Dut the adoption Of such foolhardy policies is
incredible. The same review has an exception
any well Informed article evidently written by
sn expert. on Negro. Nileland and Uganda" in
hheh the enlarged scope of British response
nAitles is clearly outlined. These articles are
heayy reading for patient Britons who are lam
euoiy wondering whether the Beers will still be
henting when the King is crowned.