New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-26
CROWDS CHEER ROSEBERY
TWO LONDON SPEECHES.
Former Prcmicr's attack on Dir.
Chamberlain s Policy.

London Nov 25-Lord Rosebery spoke to
three thousand persons on the fiscal question
at the Surrey Theatre tonight There were
twenty thousand applications for tickets the
issue of which had to be limited to the capacity
OF the theatre. Lord Rosebery afterward ad-
dressed a large overflow meeting At both
meetings he was enthusiastically received, and
many parts of his speeches were warmly
cheered. Among those present at the meetings
were a number of members of the House OF
Commons and others prominent in British pub
lie life.
His Icrdship's remarks were for the most part
devoted to ridiculing Joseph Chamberlain ana
his policy. After last nights meeting at
Queens Hail. which was attended by seven
members of Lord Salisburys government said
the speaker. little can be added THE fiscal
question must be solved and finally settled and
unless it be settled the dissolution OF Parha-
ment cannot be long delayed
Lord Rosebery referred to Mr.. Chamberlain as
"a modern jeremiah whose assertions that the
country had been desolated had been refuted
by the facts Mr. Chamberlain said the country
was ruined. while Mr. Balfour. the other
hand, said the country extremely pros
porous. but soon would be ruined. The Board
CT Trade Blue Book however. had decided
against both of these contentious. The speaker
said that the condition of the people generally
had been improved. while the workingmen were
enjoying greater prosperity. If distress existed
in the country it because of the unwise
expenditures of the government, which in the
last decade had increased g. per cent, while III
the previous ten years there had been an in
crease OF only per cent.
Instead of curbing this growing expenditure,
said Lord Rosebery MIR. Chamberlain dscov-
cred disease which had no existence. and pro-
posed a remedy which would make the disease
worse-namely. the increase in the cost of every
commodity"
The real outcome of Mr.. Chamberlains policy.
his lordshp believed, would be state of So
cialism. The cry Of dumping applied to the
large emporiums in this country which had
killed the small traders. In recent years Can
ada had dumped in Great Britain nearly as
much iron all the dumping countries put
together A committee of experts. said the
speaker. would have to distinguish between for
eign and imperially dumped" and "sweated'
goods.
THE first result Of Mr.. Chamberlains policy,
continued Lord Rosebery. would be to plunge
Great Britain into bitter fiscal warfare with our
cousins in the United States, the result of
which Great Britain would lose everything and
gain nothing. 1t would mean a practical sever
ance far more deplorable than fiscal severance
and would blight the fairest hopes of the two
nations"
In summing up, Lord Rosebery said that Mr..
Chamberlain had not proved his case and that
the evils of which he complained existed only in
his imagination. A real remedy for any existing
adverse conditions could be reached by stmulat-
ing practical, technical and commercial educa-
ton reducing the national expenditure and the
drink bill of the people, encouraging the growth
of cotton within the empire, teaching CONNER
cial travellers how to study the tastes of the
people they visited and through other simple
and practical steps, which would be better
training for race competition than mandates for
negotiation with foreign countries"