Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-08
DALFUUh ID UNEAOl
British Premier ASs Alnos' Hopeless Task
Bet Out for Him.
CHAMBERLAIN LIKELY TO Be PREMIER
his Plan Of 0ppOIi ion Gathers Strength
Among the Voters.
INDIAN SQUABBLE PROVES EMBARRASSING
Kitchener and 0urzOn Are Worrying the
Government Greatly.
PUBLIC HEARS MUCH OF TIE DISPUTE
INDIAN soUABBLt PROVES EMBARRASSING
PUBLIC HEARS MUCH OF TIE DISPUTE
Eminent Men DiametricRIIy Opposed
Hs 60 the Facts and Indian Service
Being DemOrnIized as the
Result.


~ L,Cidedly mixed" expresses the political
situation In the United Kinkdom TO-DAY.
Mr.. Chamberlain. usual, appears to be
the key to the situation and his return to
England and the effects of his Bristol
speech under the auspices OF the Liberal
Unionlst association are being closely
watched by all parties For whether one
likes IL or not Mr. Chamberlain, though
perhaps not the strong man in a popular
sense, Is nevertheless man whose move
ments are watched with the greatest in
terest-greater perhaps, than If he were
prime minister himself. during the declining
days OF his life
Meanwhile Mr.. Balfour is ordering his
arrangements as though he fully expected
70 be the prime minister next year. The
decision rests perhaps not with Mr.. Bal
-FOUR, but perhaps II does rest with Mr.
Chamberlain. The result of the EIgin
boroughs election, instead of weakening
strengthens phe position Mr.. Chamberlain
has taken up. He has told the conservative
leaders that they are destined to defeat
and every day that passes only increases
the magnitude OF the disaster that is to
overwhelm them, and no useful object can
be served by further provocation Of the
country. But IL there is anything that
Mr.. Balfour dearly loves to do it is to
watch him in the halls of Parliament to
understand the refinement Of cruelty TO
animals and to appreciate what bull bait
ing and bear batting must have meant to
Ihe poor unfortunates who were tantalized
before men were supposed to have turned
refined and civilized. Mr.. Balfour's meth
DDS are unique. Twirling a monocle with a
smile on his face he will say the most
cutting, the most sarcastic, and the most
wicked things. But when you come to
tnAhze mis- phrases you conclude that after
alI II Is not what the man has said but
the manner in which he has said it that
makes you want TO take a shotgun or a
meat ak to him-that is. il you belong to
the opposition.
Chamberlain scents Success.
Mr.. Chamberlain has only TO state on
the platform the views to be put before
the Tory party meeting however, and the
prime minister can no longer persist in
MS ciinsing to office. Mr. Chamberlain.
who believes that when In the opposition
he can wipe out Mr.. BaIfour is naturally
anxious for the arrival of the hour when
the process so interesting to watch can be
begun 1t by no means follows that II will
De successful, for in the bout OF, fnesse
ana trickery in which the leaders of all
OF the parties have INDUCED during the
lain with Mr.. Balfour
1t is clear that the Curzon-K kitchener
squabble is at the beginning of the begin
ming stage, not the beginning of the end
NOW that these two strong men have taken
20 attacking each other in public it may
also be taken for granted that the trouble
viii not be allowed to rest there. 1t is
well known. Of course, that the present
conflict is only the elimination OF a long
md bitter antagonism between the military
and civil ofacials in India, and now that
matters have been brought to a head IL is
% be expected that others will take a
iand In the hight Already the two services
are forming themselves into factions
around their chiefs, and with two such
distinguished examples before them they
are not likely to be over-nice in their re-
gard for the susceptibilities OF others.
When one considers the thousand and one
ways In which the military and civil ad-
mihstfatons must dovetail into each other
u 10 not dlhcult TO see the state of things
that this must lead to. Were Lord Kiteh
ener man OF real capacity and independ-
ence, he might perhaps succeed in soften
ing the asperities OF the situation but
being, as everybody knows wrapped un
In his own methods, anything that he may
say or do is calculated to make matters
worse rather than better. As for Lord
Mimic he is only a puppet in the hands
Of Kitchener. And In any event he is not
likely TO reach India for some time to
come. Meanwhile the rival factions will
have full sway TO indulge their love OF
each other
SouabbIe Worries BaIfour
There seems hardly any doubt that this
sduabble is worrying Mr.. Balfour more
than all OF the other evils that he has had
10 contend with during the past year. No
body believes that after the disclosures of
the Kitchener-Curzon row Mr. Balfour
could survive more than a month were Par
liament Ia session. II is impossible TO see
how he could hope TO meet successfully a
vote on the address dealing with Lord
CurKon's resignation and the events that
have preceded It and followed 1t.
BreeEes from India.
As Il r.. the British public is left In a
most uncomfortable position OF doubt as to
which Of the empire builders, curzon or
Kitchener. is telling the truth. For. put in
plain English. that is what the dispute
amounts TO. Here are two sets OF facts
perfectly within the cogniEance OF the two
men, yet In regard TO nine or eleven points
one Of them hatly eontradicts the other. OF
course they are both far too EentIemanly
10 accuse each other Of lying. but when one
reads that this statement il denied and that
that Is Incorrect" that another Is ''seri-
ously misrepresented." while others again
were never made" the plain man will
have no dificulty Of forming his own con-
elusions as TO the impression intended 20
be convey ed or the actual merits Of the
dispute Il will OF course, be impossible TO
judge. Not even will the production OF the
offoial documents clear up the points In
dispute regarding the Indian empire OF
Great Britain.
Government a. Impotent.
The enect which all the circumstances
sonnected with this Indian squabble has
,aused on the minds OF the unionist rank
and hle has been most remarkable. The
whole thing seems 20 have brought home
to them as nothing has ever brought home