The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-17
CRISIS IN BRITAIN
GLOOMY MANIFESTO ISSUED BY
LORD ROSEBERY TO THE
LIBERAL PARTY
THE GOVERNMENT Is WEAK
But, Says His LOrdShip, the Oppo-
sitiOn Is Still Weaker, md the
Outlook Is Anything
but Bright.

LONDON, July Ill ord Rosebery has
issued q manifesto on the divisions in
the Lib9 al party. 3 1t is contained in a
letter to the City Liberal club, which had
invited him to deliver an address.
He diselsims any desire to re-enter pol
itics, but speaks out under the remark
able charter'' agreed upon by Liberal
members of the house of commons OF
hearty and rndisputed allegiance to the
leader and complete liberty of action to
dissent with regard to one vital question
before the country"
The Liberal party can become a power,
he says, when it shall have made up its
mind on the Imperial questions which
are at this moment embodied in the war. Z"
After asserting that 1.-The whole empire
has rallied to the war;" he discussed the
attitude of the Liberal party.
What is the attitude of the Liberal
party?" he asks. Neutrality and an
open mind? Now I contend that this is
an impossible attitude and spells impo-
tence. No party can exist on such condi-
ticns." He declares that the differences
would not cease to operate when the war
is over, because statesmen who disas-
sociate themselves from nation in a
great national question, such as the war
in whiAh we all strive to suffer together,
disassociate themselves for much longer
than they think
He considers that the severance Is a
sincere, fundamental and incurable an
tagonism of principle with regard to the
empire at large and our consequent pol
ICY" AS there is this honest and ire
concilable difference Of opinion on ques-
tions of the first Importance" he can see
no favorable issue.
Lord Rosebery concludes with a gloomy
touch "It is a matter of sorrow and
anxiety" he says, Ito see weak gov
ernment confronted by a weaker opposi-
ton at a juncturo of foreign hostility
and international competition which
needs all the vigilance lower and ability
at our command"
He believes that Great Britain is at a
crisis which may have unlimited effects
upon it's future.
GOVERNMENT DEFEATED.
The government sustained a defeat In
| the house of lords today, which, although
quite uniInportant in itself, was indica-
| tive of the growing discomfort. The III
cident arose from the question whether a
model of the new war office should be
made and exhibited. Lord Lansdowne,
| the foreign secretary, refused to enter
| tain this proposition, but -oh division the
motion was carried, Al to 20. The an
nouncement of these figures was greeted
| The last has not been heard of mill
tary censorship in England, notwith-
| standing Lord Kitcheners blunt tele-
| grams. While the Boer commanders may
! be so demoralized and scattered thai
| neither Gen. Bothas nor Gen. Dewet car
! put an end to atrocities, such as the
massacre of the wounded, If their atten-
ton be called to them, the public has g
right to know what is going on, especial.
| ly when the pro-Boers on the continent
| and in England are charging the British
army with conducting an inhumane cam
paigne. This is the opinion of the Eng
lish press, which has united in condemn
ing the military arrangements for keep
! ing the country in ignorance Of the rea-
nature OF the warfare now in progress
Details of Gen. French's combined at
tack upon Scheeper's stronghold are still
meager, but the results were evidently
not so complete as had been expectet
from the employment Of q series Of col
umns working toward a common goal
The main force escaped and Gen. French
will need to set enother trap.
Reports that a large body Of British
infantry will be sent home and that tn,
railway between Johannesburg and Dur
/ ban @will <bes the only one, onSupied ii
strength are not credited by military
men. This would involve the ipractica
abandonment of the line between Bloem
fontein and Johannesburg and would b.
regarded by the Beers as d British re-
treat and confession Of failure.