Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
NOT FOR HONE GUARDS
Secretary Chamberlain Explains
Recent Speech in Reference
to the Troops.
The Standing Army Not Intended
As Protection for Great
Britain.
A Hint to Botha and His Fellow
A Hint TO Botha and His Fellow
Travelers-The Foreign
News.

London, Sept. 2.-In cases of nation
al emergency England must continue
to place great reliance upon voluntary
lpatriotism. This is in effect what Col
Eonial Secretary Chamberlain said in his
address to the Birmingham ambulance
brigade, but as his remarks were open
to misconstruction he has been asked
to explain them.
The passage in question was that in
which the colonial secretary declared
that the nation would not sanction the
Expenditure necessary to enable it to be
fully prepared to meet an exceptional
emergency like the south African war.
He now says his meaning was that the
nation would not consent to maintain
standing army of a quarter of mil
lion men in time of peace, and that
such force had been necessary in south
Africa In that sense he meant his
words to be understood. For that mat
ter, no cabinet minister would dare con-
done the many shortcomings in the
British military organization which the
Boer war revealed.
The Boer generals are warned that
the British government will not consent
for one moment to regard them as in
vested with any public or political
functions. Anything they may have ia
say to Secretary Chamberlain will be
listened to with courtesy, but all ide
of negotiations between them and the
government will be promptly and firm
ly repud;ated
The altered tone of the London news
papers with regard to Botha, De Wet
and Delarey is caused by reports en-
anatlEg from continental! sources as to I
the attitude which they intend to adop.
m their intercourse with the colonial
once. These reports suggest that the |
three generals have been led by the |,
influence OF the Brussels group into a
of the real position /
which they now hold in this country |
The weather is obviously out of SYM |
pathy with the labor movement as rep T
resented by the trade union congress |
The Hyde Park demonstration was in. I
terfered with by rain, and yesterda,
the delegations tramped thru a heavy +
doWnpour to the first session OF the
in Holborn town hall. Sir
John Mcdonald, on behalf of the Lon (
don county council, heartily welcomed /
the delegates to the metropolis. The 4
report OF the parlia mentary COMMITTEES I
was 1hen presented and will be dis
cussed at today's sitting after the pres
ldent delivers his address. The report 4
showed tnat the delegates to America !,
We're much impressed by the far reach E
ing independence of the American Fed
efatlon OF labor. The extremely salts
factory progress to the federation was
.n2rked down as evidence of GROWING
interest in trade unionism and concur I
rent increase in wages for America, 4
Workmen. The delegation was pleas Il
70 ilnG a close alliance between Cana. !.
ulan ana American unions. Labor in.
terests In the United States. it wa.
noted, mad a direct claim on the On, 4
OF the president of the republic. and 5
compared with this state OF thinps a
British trade unionists were at ser;o,,-t
4;
notwithstanding the large nuant;t,
y iron ana steel which recently has
.eeh shlpped from Great Britain and I
NE comment to the United States an6 Il
canada, the demand still continues
mere are now cargoes offered from {
to Pensacola, Phila-
leiphla, Tampico, and Montreal; Glas-
cow 70 New York and Baltimore.
Liverpool to Philadelphia, Barrow to
5altlmore, Antwerp to Jersey CITY. and
5arrow and Maryport to Quebec and
Montreal. The latest inquiry ia for
onnage to convey 10000 tons of rails {
rom rotterdam to ST. John.