Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-17
Lord Rosebery's Speech Gave
Little Comfort to the
Party Leaders.
Advised the Liberals to Get To.
eether. But Didn't Tell
How.
The Salisbury Ministry Attacked
For the Conduct Of
the War.

| Chesterfield, England, Dec. 17.-Lor6
Rosebery's long expected and much her
aided speech delivered here last night
was received with marked enthusiasm
| by an immense crowd. 1t can hardly be
said to have thrown much light along
the pathway of the liberal party. Re-
solved into its elements the speech
merely said:
Get together
| The speaker himself confessed that
he did not pretend to say how this CO.
hesion should be accomplished. In urg-
| ing his fellow liberals to reorganize
Lord Rosebery quoted the following
words from the message Of President
Roosevelt:
I'VE hope to keep going by slow
steps, not by bounds. We must keep
our eyes on the stars, but we must also
remember that our feet are on the
ground"
The following was the tenor Of the
former premier's speech:
1.-The ministry was wrong, but the lib
erals should be very careful how they
tried to set 1t right"
Turning from the immediate out
break Of the war Lord Rosebery
touched upon education, in which he
said Great Britain was woefully behind
her sister nations. Her commercial de-
velopment was also sadly atrophied and
the time would soon come when Britain
would be forced to fight for trade SUI
premacy. She would then be as help
less as tho armed with bows and ar
rows.
Lord Rosebery maintained a discreet
vagueness on the question of his per-
sonal inclination concerning the leader
ship Of the liberal party. He said that
he could not imagine himself in the POI
sition of a minister But in the next
breath he told how he would reorganize
the war Office If 1t fell to his lot. He
said this reorganization, however
should be postponed until after the war.
The speakers recipe for the proposed
reorganization Of this office was char
acteristically American one, namely,
the appointing of commission.
Concerning the governments conduct
of the war, Lord Rosebery was severe
and scornfuf. The complaint Of the
government that the Beers had not
made war according to the recognized
rules reminded him that the same thing
had been said by the old Austrian gem
erals of the young Napoleon, when the
latter was beating them. .s
He was particularly sarcastic at the
expense of the explanation lof the earl
of Halsbury. the lord chancellora that
only sort Of warfare" was now going
on. and he strongly condemned what
he termed the scandalous misrepresen-
tations by which the government had
precipitated the last general election.
Lord Rosebery heavily blamed the
government for it's tactlessness, which
he declared had produced unparalleled
ill-will toward Great Britain in every
European population, and which he at
tributed largely to what he called the
provocative oratory Of Mr. Chamber
lain. the colonial secretary.
Whilst he was emphatic on the neces-
sity Of vigorously prosecuting the war,
and expressing the fullest confidence in
Lord Kitchener. Lord Rosebery said
that he thought the government should
be prepared to listen to peace overtures.
and he contended there was nothing de-
grading or abasing in recognizing the
exiled Boer government for the purpose
of making peace.