The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-07-17
HIS TASK
THANKLESS
Whites Chance of Success
Termed Slight.
ENGLISH PAUPERISM
Tremendous Increase Noted During Past
Year-"Eo Government Can Sit
on Bayonets Long and
Exist"

New York, July IA copyright cable
from London in the Evening Post says:
The Car is so uncertain a factor that
the utmost well informed Englishmen
will say Of the peace negotiations is
that NJ. Witte is more likely to give his
country an honorable peace. Little SER
ious support is given to the suggestion
that he is being sent 20 the conference,
not because he is an advocate of peace,
but because he IS an advocate Of re-
FORM a collaboration in the manifesto Of
Dec. rs, and responsible for many of the
proposals which have been based on
that document, and that lie is therefore
ITO be deprived of the power OF doing
further mischief and Is sent to debate
peace terms, with instructions in his
pocket forbidding him to grant what
Japan is expected to ask. 81 Witte
would be unlikely 70 accept a task in
which his hands were tied. Yet his
chances Of success are admittedly slen-
der.
The Spectators view Of the situation
is as follows:
We question if throughout the French
revolution there was a single case of
six or seven thousand insurgents being
blasted away by cannon shot, as is be-
ieved to have happened at ODESSA No
government can ia the long run sit
upon bayonets, but, in the circumstances
existing in Russia the great revolution
which we oil expect, and which most
men familiar with history would say is
inevitable, may be very slow 1T was
slow even III France, where nearly four
years elapsed between the meeting OF
the states-general and the execution oil
the King. 1t is all very well to talk Of
1 the finance power which is still accepted
throughout Russia. 1t Is plain that the
wealth Of the church has not yet been
seized, and the properties which the
state can sell are worth more than any
| probable indemnity. Unless a regiment
as a unit declares against the throne
the hope of immediate peace is still
faint, for even if M. Witte should be
invested with plenipotentiary powers,
the Car must still ratify the treaty"
This week the ministry came near
defeat in the House of Commons over
the volunteer proposals. It's majority
sank TO 20. Many ministerialists are
opposing this scheme, both BY speech
and by abstention from voting. Minis.
tiers may say what they please, but the
public win sec but one explanation for
the new proposals, namely an absolute
confusion among ministers as to the
real purposes and interrelation Of the
army and navy, and persistence OF a
certain section of the cabinet along lines
which they and the military party hope
will drive England into some form Of
Transcription.
l Mr.. Arnold Forster's Immediate aim
il to turn a large voluntary, home de-
! fence body into smaller. iirst.class
/ fighting auxiliary force for foreign scr
vice. The normal Englishman wants
nothing Of the kind. He wholly mis-
trusts militarism, and desires nothing
| inore than to encourage the volunteers
to become efficient for home defence.
When that has been done, he does not
leoubt that, if tie country need them,
they in an emergency would yield their
lcuotum to foraigfI service as they md
| in the South african war. ANY such
first steps to CONSUMPTION, as some Of
the ministers seem to be attempting,
must end in failure.
This weeks official lf-yearly state
ment Of che padperism in England and
Males forms aisquieting commentary
Upon the fact that Parliament has been
too busy with heated party wranelings
To pass d bill for the better organization
Icf the unemployed The return shows
/ that the burden Of the poor il getting
heavier at an alarming rate, The in-
crease IN outdoor pauperism Is Q, am
of indoor pauperism 5 per cent. this year
over last, The number Of able-bodied
paupers has increased Is per cent as
against an increase of 3 per cent. in
those who We're not able-bodied. Lon
don now boasts one pauper in every 81