Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-19
BUSINESS AND POLITICS.
Salisbury, Gladstone and Rosebory Have All Com
bined Them.

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dream Of entirely sayer.re his .grr.,-
ZION With "a rrm which furnished fn
WIN DIS principal source of income.
lhInlln r9 DNtayag4uU. uf bis own
hlt through The financial mIefurfguus =
4I' father Doc found himself uD The
driiH .i The latter without Ia shilling d,
maintain OBJ. dignity ot Iha carbon no
"hIeh ha uH.eus Eu..H- succeeded. ANA
was therefore. compelled t0 look about
iuI a means of livelihood which. aftar
suhlIy unsuccessful ventures. be- uIu-
IudleIy FOUND 1s stock broker n Inc
city que
bug for business qualifications Lord
NVseDely himself could never have hold
eilHeI NE -'Dietaryship Uf state lur for
gym ata',s or 'an position of prime
munster. fuI although NOT au active
partner ID the er,a. banking house II
h,.IslaU4' yei through hH wife, OBJ.
.,,'g 'h,Ii ahI sol. h.uess of Baron
meyer de- EUth-UUll. ha pogaasa.e ur
greater interests lu tla R1fh.rbHF b,..r.
ness inan does Lord HaIWIuka Ir tIa
relatively small stock brak.ng frr, a.,
which De belongs Moreover WhT. DO h.
difficult to sae how Lord Harlwi.ks "a
under secretary nf state Tor India could
possibly avail himself uf his official u6.
sitiun tU promote the interests of brs
lrm IN the city, it Us easy ta perceive
now LORD EoseberE while IN control Of
the foreign relations of Great Britain.
must necessarily have come frequently
INTO possession ~ state secrets u an
international character and of priceless
Ntlle % the famous banking house IN
when an his wealth Dis Invested No
one mas ever dwamt Of ascrb.ug 10
Io,d hosno"fy any questionable use or
rather ABUSE NJ hiH position ass foreign
secretary ana COS premier tl benefit the
undertakings of The R0thschiIds and II
is precisely ON this account that he
should nave been the very last person I'm
the world 90 ins.uuat, I'm his sDergb In
Che house OF lords last week that tIa
brother peer the earl ~ HardwIcke.
would be inclined 90 show himself lass
scrupulous and less h'gh-princlpled on
the subject Of official honor.
The question has come up against tha
colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain
ana against his son Austen. now fnan-
clal secretary ~ the treasury. IN con-
necuou with their ownership of shares
IN Industrial undertakings which have.
during the past Two years been fortu-
nate In securing government contracts
for which public tenders were invited
ana obtained In defending himself
from Oh" attacks 0u This score 'n pariia-
ment Mr. Chamberlain with that
frankness and str5ightf0rwarjness u
language FOR which he is distinguished
declared that his fortune was ~ his own
making and that II Doe was Indebted 10
bis ancestors for anything DC was not
tor titles 90 fHr great landed p1ss IONS
but for a name that had remained uu-
bIemi>hed in the annals of trade and n
Industry for more than goo years This
IN Itself. be argued. should constitute I1
the eyes Of his fellow-c1unrymen an
assurance OF his scwpul0us rectltu5e no
all matters relating 90 his office More.
over be added that 10 the nation. rs
represented by the ministerial majority
in parliament possessed sufficient cone
tldence IN his political and personal iu-
tegrity 90 eutrust him with so IMPORT
ant department ~ the state as The
one which be directs and with the a1-
ministrati0n of Englard's vast colonial
empire. 90 might surely rely upon his
being possessed ~ a sufficient amount
Of honesty and care NJ hts reputation 10
abstain from any abuse 0f his official Co.,.
fluence for the mere sake of adding
few pounds 10 his dividends OF the en-
terprse in which ne held shares Nor
would be- FOR one moment admit that
the English people entertained so low
an opinion n its public men as 90 rec
quire that they should sever am C0nuec-
ton with the industrial aud commercial
undertakings from which they derived
their chief sources of revenue when ace
Cepting government office lest tf.y
should Doe tempted On make use OF the
latter for the furtherauce " the inter-
ests Of these enterprises 40 the expense
Of the nation.
Mr. Gladstone certainly did not cone
slider connection with any reputable
business as a bar 10 office. For when he
formed his last cabinet he entrusted the
under secretaryship OF state for india,
now held by Lord Hariwicke. 20 a
member Of the house Of commons, who
was an active partner in firm OF cot
ton brokers. while Bertram Currie the
well.kuown London banker, was ap.
pointed by him 90 the Office ~ financial
member Of the Indian council, az the
very time when the fall IN the price or
silver and Of cotton were the two prln-
cipal difficulties by which the India
office was confronted. Mr.. Goschen,
who has Just retired from the position
u first lord Of the admiralty In the
Cnionist cabinet and for many years
ministerial colleague ot Mr.. Gladstone
retains 20 this DAY his interests as a
sleeping partner ln the London iirm OF
Fruhllug a GOechon who make a spe-
cialty Of foreign loans, and who were
among the largest creditors OF the
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