The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-01-19
THE foR1Es, ELECTION TACTICS.

The number of The Outlook for Jan
uary IL has an interesting contribution
on the new British parliament by
Henry Norman, NJ. p, the newspaper
man who was sent by the London
Times to Washington, after the issu-
ance of his famous Venezuelan mes
sage by Grover Cleveland, for the pur-
pose Of ascertaining whether or not
the American people sustained the
president in his aggressive attitude to-
ward England. The Times envoy I'M
hesitatingly reported that notwith-
standing the adverse criticism of the
Anglo-American Press, the people of
the United States, without regard to
politics, were behind Grover Cleveland
in the matter of enforcing the Monroe
doctrine by war against England.
Then it was that British statesmen
submitted the question ut issue be-
tween England and the South Ameri-
can republic to arbitration, and adopt
ed deferential and friendly tone to
the United States Of America.
Henry Norman gives many interest
ing facts relating to the composition
of the present parliament of Great
Britain and Ireland, but what has in
terested the Irish Standard most of all
is the tactics employed by Chamber
lain and his lingo followers in the cam
paign of 1900, while the South African
war was in progress. Touching the
methods of the Birmingham screw
maker, who is now colonial secretary,
the writer says:
II wonder If American readers have
realized to what lengths Mr.. Chamber
lain went, and how far his supporters
followed his example, during the cleo.
ton. On September % he said: Now
we have come practically to the end
Of the war; there is nothing going OH
now but guerrilla business, which is
encouraged by these men Of the Oppo-
sition-I was going to say these trait
ors, but 1 will say instead, these mis-
guided Individuals Naturally, after
this, the word traitor appeared in
scores of Conservative platforms and
in hundreds of Conservative handbills.
A telegram from Mr.. Chamberlain to
the electors of Haywood said: Every
seat lost to the government is seat
gained by the Beers A Conservative
poster read thus: Every vote given for
Mr.. Horsbin is Boer bullet fired at
your fellow-countrymen and an insult
to the memory Of every British soldier
who has fallen in the service of his
Queen and country Another read:
Vote for Balfour. Remember that a
vote for a Liberal Is vote to the
Boer.' I do not know whether these
posters will seem as outrageous to
American electors as they did to us.
Perhaps you are accustomed to esti-
mate election literature of this class Mt
its proper value. Certainly nothing
like them has ever been seen in modern
English political life, in which they
We're n new and startling degrade
ton"
Had Mr.. Norman perused the Tory or
imperialistic press Of the United States
during 1900, or since Mckinley has
been initiating Salisbury and Cham
berlain in his policy of conquest Of the
Filipinos, he would have known that
the jingoes of this country have sur
passed the jingoes of England in charg-
ing anti-imperialists with treason.
Every prominent American, whether
Democrat or Republican, who had the
temerlty of disagreelng with the party
in power on it's foreign policy, was
branded as "a traitor" and some indi-
duals in their partisanship went SO far
as to threaten the dissentients with
hanging from lamp posts. Some Re
publican demagogues in the city of
Minneapolis said the rope was too good
for men who would oppose the admin
istration in fastening the yoke Of slav-