Omaha daily bee., 1905-02-19
TRAPS FAIL TO CATCH THE STATESMAN
No Change in His Sentiment Toward the
Policy of Chamberlain,
ELECTION MUST PasCEOE NEW POLICY
Present Parliamen. Will Not Be Permitted
to Deal with Plan.
ALL LOOKING FOR POLITICAL ISSUES
Indications Are that Conservatives
Would Prefer 10 Discuss Home
Rule for Ireland Rather
Than Tariffs.

Than Tariffs.
LONDON. Feb. 1S.-(special CaLlegram TO
The Bee. )-Prime Minister Balfour's recent
address to his constituents in East Man
chester was disappoip tment to the radical
critics of the government. For very long
time past "the small fry of the oppos ton,
as the prime minister described all the lead
ers of the opposition save Sir Henry Camp
bell-Bannerman and Mr. John Morley. have
been laying traps for him so open and OBJ
vious that blind sparrow could hardly
walk in. Their game is to make mischief
between Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. Chamberlain
and to invite the former to utter state
ments calculated to ALLEVIATE the prime min
lister and late colonial secretary.
When MIR. Chamberlain resigned office to
undertake the task of educating the coun-
try to think imperially," he had the sym-
pathy and support of the prime minister
who declared himself in entire accord with
the objects of Mr.. Chamberlalns policy,
and In his doubt to the immediate prac-
hcability or the means he proposed, Mr.
Chamberlain thoroughly concurred. 1t was
with a view to remove the objections to the
means that Mr.. Chamberlain. at great
sacrifice to himself. resumed a position of
greater freedom and less responsibility
Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. Chamberlain are
agreed as to the desirability of -effecting a
closer political and commercial union be-
tween the mother country and the colonies,
and as to policy of lighting prohibitory.
foreign tariffs on the products of British
industry by retaliation IL necessary. To
both branches of this policy the straight
sect of the Cobdenlte is opposed. But Mr..
Balfour has pledged himself not to raise
the fiscal question in any shape or form in
the present Parliament, and until a disso-
luton takes place he is absolved from going
beyond the declarations he has made ut
Sheftield and Edinburgh which he reiter-
ated In the tersest form on half sheet Of
notepaper at Manchester.
Follows GIadstone's Plan.
Commenting on the situation. the London
Daily Telegraph says
We do not know whether Mr.. Gladstonat
Is still the idol of the radical party. hut
If,fa wIh,etner ne is or not, he has supplied Mr.
margin-for declining to debate otiestions ne Hons
not actually before Parliament. We pass
3y his declaration that the question of the
or practical politics, made a year CT two
t, PEI ore ne carried resolutions in favCr Of
With the 06,ant of the irish church
bbtSiiirPPoted baiir rPo party, and as Sir Henry Camp
theo1eSnHfrman thoue5 MI ason,fh may have forgotten
he fought and won the Election IefnSaoer of tsfs G
staI stae issue Snt and that issue alone. Mr. Glad
u sSinue ieit no bGonstituti9na scruple in abol
one one or MS legal advisers declared was a
tHeP the sppnoat e1Ht' SIMPLY because he had won
iiand IAN by the pleasant prospect Of DESTROY
ing ing the established church. Nor did ne
Tor Tor his great victory bound him ''h9isurS in any
way TO defer to their scrupIes with regard
sfriErg s4 Mr F2rSters sf, s educational Bill More
qqestion of university tests. ''""'u 'ne
IN IN 1852, while a member of the govern
ston he cordially detested and den6nncad
va III anonymous articles in the Quarterly Re-
the motio1Psp 1PpOseqi of IN passionate speech.
rended nnfio6aT with vgGr the principle Of denom
without without previous notice and with no 20 nos. es.
sinle motive save that of regainine The
hsary supported IOti the 6i Mf he GsdStoas SdS ns
| strenuously opposed. 81
MoreIy Firebrand.
The epithets Of immoral, discreditabIe. dis1
nOh nOhhoraDse, which Mr.. Morley-the philos-
platform-has applied to Mr.. Balfour migbt
maeed Miie haye been justified in connection
ersations, But they cannot"we do NOT siT1 s,,v
,1Iaa Wis6 justice, but with simple decencySbe
ministnr us9d In reaerenee to- the present prime
try absolutely free and uncommitted on a
| grand imperial question, which Is one of
He has not attempted to t rush dscai dHCa1iirS. rS.
t9rm SiI r. on the House Of Commons as did
sr forca ge6art tSe Psal half century ago to
dom without an hours notice upon t6e
SGSSSn9stit9enGies. SSS9 as did Mr. Gladstone in in
nothing that Mr.. Chamberlain has sai5" Idid
on on this momentous problem commits a
| port of Cobdenism or Of hsc9l Nre ret SUP
BUT what OF the case of these Opponents nf
the government who prate about honesty t
Tartifre and Pecksniff? They decarn aineT ,t1, 2I
reiteration that demands the Shakesperian
epithet' that within few months at the
| outside they will turn. the government ont
ana VIII Themselves obtain the emoIuments
and a. d res &sespS,nsibilities S, Of offce, Therefore It
| is lnnniteiy less ma teral to the country to
and shameless" Mr.. Balfour would do aDie IL
with majority at his back in the next
raFb1sment Iabisdls thar than It is to learn what the
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman and ne
friends propose Mr.. Balfour put some
questions 9Se o, to them In a recent speech which
| lhey VIII not OF course, answer.
Other Questions Important.
The question OF home rule for Ireland IA
| let US say, at least important as thai
of fiscal reform. What line is the impend.
ing gSoveTnmeat Mr disposed TO take on that
TO say nothing OF Lord Rcsebery, are
kni2Wn Eiit'1tI, to be opposed 70 any further con-
| SNAANNeeAphS nAttOn-
| allsts, and the gentleman who is the radical
| candidate IN the fight for North Dorset-
| the result Of which, though decided is SIN
| unknown-has repudiated home rule Sir
| Henry Campbell Bannerman however bas
| nailed the colors OF separa tion TO the mast
! though, or course, he can always cut awav
| the mast to save the ship. But then fhers
! Is the education question. Rev. DR. ClifTord
and his friends have declared that hniess
the education act OF 1902 Is Repealed root
ana branch they will go 10 Wormwood
! Scrubs, or continue what they are pleased
70 call passive resistance against a rad
| ical government. VIII the new Royernment
| repeal the act? Chinese labor and the eIor
| ious chorus OF "chin-chin Gilman mani have
won good many hy-elections. is the next
colonial secretary prepared TO cancel the
ORDINANCE and TO pack the Chinese iaborers
| home? Well, II So he will not only have
to fight the milionaires OF Park Lane
which would please him-hut also to
stauneh a radical labor representative as
Mr Quinn Of Johannesburg--wh having
4 originally opposed the Introduction of the
I Orientals, has now declared that the -exDeri-
ment has been success. and that opposi-
tion to IL Is at an end. Is Sir Henry Camp-
bell Bannerman, or what Is more important
are his good-natured friends going 10 ask
/ for a mandate 10 rob churches In Wales
and Scotland2 Above all, is the embryonic
! radical administration ready 10 reduce the
navy to the condition OF phaatom.