The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-23
THE ENGLISH LIBERALS AND
TORY POLICY.

Lord Rosebery has fine gifts in liter
allure, but he is not a really successful
statesman. When Prime Minister ne
was something of a failure. Quite re-
Gently he issued a manifesto against
his old party, the Liberals, ana saiu
it was practically gone. II Is not III
good shane. and Rosebery has no tai
en+s mr. mower to put it in better shape.
He is a poor leader. and is more sue
cessfuI as a grumbler than as an In
spirer. The Tory government In Eng
land is seemingly in great force. lts
conduct of affairs is approved by the
british people, who seem we'll satisfied
with the war upon the Beers and the
course of the Tories in the East, ana
elsewhere. The Liberal party is now
and has been weak ever since the great
Gladstone retired from its leadership.
5Ianv of the ablest men among Liber-
as are handling Toryism freely and
b.avely. Morley. Bannerman, Har-
court, Bryce, George, Harrison and
others use the freest and ablest speech
in condemnation The New York EV-
ening Post, favorable to the Tories,
SAYS of the criticizing Lord:
'Rosebery's description of the Liberal
plight has the pungency OF phrase
which we expect from him. 1t is some
thing for the sick man TO be told SO
neatly what is the matter with him.
even il no hope of cure is held out. In
this detached attitude, however, this
inability to rally his party to a watch
~. q onh
unifying command. we see Lord Rose
bery's fatal disqualification for politl-
cal leadership. He is an admirable
critic. His literary sense IS nice ana
sure But he is not a lighting man -
According to Sir John Gordon Sprigg
in an address at Cape Town, South At
RIGA. before the Vigilance Committee,
on the 18th instant. the British policy
as to South Africa is well defined, and
it is aimed to wipe out all republican
ism henceforth and forever in that re-
gion Of King Edwards vast dominions
Sprigg fayors, and says it will be done,
the giving of the two conquered little
Dutch republics a good. strong taste
of military rule. which is now so pop
ular in the republican party in the
north now as. to outlying provinces, OF
Uncle Sam. Mr.. Sprigg thinks the war
will end, not long hence. and he and
the Cane Government fully approve Of
the Salisbury policy of conquest. He
likes the idea of wiping out. But he
says that when once conquered, the re-
publics will be converted into crown
colonies. and the Beers will be COM
pletely submerged by heavy immigra-
tion." He says that federation must
not be hurried" Such is the British
policy of aggression, OF conquest, OF
obliteration. of su~bmersing. But first
rank military rule. If the Beers mao
but 5O,O0O fighters this condition WOULD
be long deferred.
Olive Schreiner, a writer 10Y &c
all British readers. and a noble, true
woman of excellent gifts. is a strong
hearty sympathizer with the Beers
and with high devotion did much to in
form the world of their prosecutions
She is now a prisoner, having been pu,
in a wire netting reservation by the
British in South Africa and there KEEP
an isolated prisoner. Her married
name is Mrs. C~ronwright. She lis de
scended Gas we learn from a shor
sketch in the Chicago Record-Herald,
from Boer ancestors and she showed
her blood in the book she wrote an
published in the defense Of her PEG
pie just before President Kruger de
clared war on Great Britain. This booi
was entitled: AN English South AT
rican View of the Situation and con
tanned some very free expressions o
opinion on the injustice of British rul
or attempted rule insSouth Africa"
TOwNE ON THE POLITICAL