Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-21
FALL OF kerr AARD|E
Trouble He Made in India Acts
as a Boomerang.
GREAT ENGLISH SALARIES
Duke of Connaught Snubs Alice q.
Rothschild.
KING LEOPOLD'S ERRATIC LIFE
King Alphonso of Spain Protests
Against the Assumptions of Eng
land in the Mediterranean.
GREAT ENGLISH SALARIES
KING LEOP0LD's ERRATIC LIFE
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

party in the house of commons is to be
deposed from his position next session
For twenty years he has been a deter
mined and successful propaganda. but
his present escapade in India is doing him
immense damage at home and is irritating
his colleagues quite is much as it Is other
people. They are thinking primarily. not
OF the interests of InuIa or the perplexi-
ties of Mr. John Morley, secretary for In
ma but of the injury which they know
h'!T itdlule eTratic political pilPrfmapo
TO De doing to the socialist party and the
so'4dllst cause at home. | am told that
very hard things are being said about him
rs rs "Trip IN canada has done his reputa-
tioh no good either Judging from the let
leFs sent home about him. He ioyrneved
across the continent in Canadian pa
enc train. hardly stopping anywhere. and
W., mnem ne reached Vancouver he had the
nerve 10 zen the people there that he had
SIZed up the labor situation of the whole
dominion and knew all about It,
truth compets one to admit that al
,Io.en heir Hardie began well. accord
ing 10 ms own lights. he has not improved
WIN political age. The new labor Marty
III me mouse OF commons has found him
out, ne deals in claptrap; he is an adj
eit.seI OF the most familiar demagogic
variety: and he has lost his head of late
III contemplating his own greatness
but the labor party is comnosed of men
VI very strong type of character They
pcopit' elther, to create strife
HoHs themselves or to publish their in
most leeilnss TO the world So Mr. Hardie
Is gong to be dropped quietly NEXT ses
SION after fashion peculiarly gratifying
ro.t iias own estimate of himself-he will
IeGIe voluntarily from the chairmanship
ana give place to Mr.. Shackleton. one Of
'He prominent leaders of the party
Hardie and Burns.
The idea of Keir Hardie's vorld-wida
Journey from he nI,
view has been eminently successful.
Every citizen of the empire from London
10 wellington. has been exacratine kefr
Hardle and his mischievous campaign IN
lno1a Even those who hold the most ad-
Nahced pro-nativa views have denlore5
the incalculable harm done during his
span OF unrestricted sedition-monRsrtne
no" much or this blatant meddling with
me careful work of generations Of en-
lghtened administrators NAV he ascr,had
10 Inegalomania. and how much TO blum
oerinS but well-intentioned philanthropy
1t rs rs hot Tor human critics to pronounce.
ne strongest rivalry existed for wears
pet"een keir Hardie and John Rurns
ne FORMER was left very far behind IN
me tae race and 1t has VIGOROUSLY left great
I'LL pis,erness OF feeling and personal rancor
ms was apparent in the first session of
the new parliament when Mr.. Rurne
mace his debut as president OF the
-tocsi government board Hardie was
DauIy beaten by Burns, who handled him
WIN great giee and silenced the labor
reader for nearly the whole session
After this severe discontinue il might
nave oeen anticipated that Hardie would
ue more careful next time. When he got
up 10 attack Burns on the subject of the
labor colonies the house of commons ex
pected 10 see some fun. This time no
Goupt: the canny member for Merthyr
dya'li would have got UP a good case
ana although the president of the local
government board could look after him
sell better than most men. he was prob
ably IN for bad quarter of an hour.
Hardie did his worst. filing his utter
-ahces with hatred and contempt Rut
never, a'as! was anybody more hopelessIy
and ludicrously beaten out OF the field
Mr. Burns has not been taking one of
those sweet administrative maps that so
often sooth the clang and hustle of gov
eminent Unfortunately for Hardje and
his supporters. he had been getting nm
cary every morning and paying sur
reptiuous visits to the labor colonies I'M
DER criticism. And very soon he had m.
whole house laughing at his opponent
Tor while he had been there to see
thlngs for himself Messrs. Hardie &, Co
had not -
Since then Hardie has sadly lost pres
tge, not only among politicians in gen
eral, but in his own party. Other and
cleverer men have rapidly been cominf
Forward not 10 dispute his position in the
ordinary sense OF the term. but to replace
the influence which he was obviously
losing in public life and which he mus
now have !rretrievab,y lost by his Grim
lnally foolish campaign in India
Cutting War Estimates.
A memorial to the prime minister is now
being signed by liberal and labor members
OF parliament. II appeals for further re-
ductlons in expenditures on the army and
the navy. II acknowledges that consider
able reductions in suoh expenditure have
already taken place. but expresses the
View that they have been insufficient 1t
points to the international situation as an
argument that reduction of expenditur
can go on without risk to this country
and il urges that the money thus saved
should be used in promoting the weII-be-
ing Of the people.
Nearly a hundred signatures of members
or parliament have already been obtained
and there is to be concerted action when
the estimates for 19OS-1g are laid before
parliament, and when supplementary es-
Inmates FOR the current year. If any come
before the house of commons 1t is not
generally known. perhaps. that the saving
on army and navy expenditures this wear
amounts to as much G3, 10000
Another saving has been effected in the
public accounts by the Irish judicature
bill. which not only suppressed two Irish
tudgeships of the kings bench division.
but Topped OF G2,e00 year from the sal
AIRY Of the lord chancellor of ireland The
Into operation the moment it received the
royal assent. the present chancellor u.ord
Justice Walker) now draws only E6,OOO q
year, though the old pension of f3G.y2 a
Year is still secured to him. The lord
chief justice of England is now the recip-
lent OF the highest salary paid IN any
judge in the empire Lord Alverstone's
salary being 8s.OD a year. The lord
chancellor OF England receives 10000
but only E6O0 is drawn for judicial du-
ties. $4,000 OF Lord Loreburn's annual in.
come from the state being in considera.
ton OF purely ministerial duties As a
Judge he receives exactly the same salary
as the lords of appeal In ordinary and the
master of the rolls. Splendid as are tho
salaries of the lord chancellor and the
lord chief justice, II Is well known thai
the attorney general draws annually as Z
rule, almost as much as both put together
Warned Troops OF
The higher social circles in England are
strangely excited by the severe rebuk.
which the Duke of Connaught has admin
istered to Miss Alice de Rothschild The
duke did not actually mention this lady's
name in the letter which he addressed &c
Gen. French on the maneuyers in Buck
ingham. but he mentioned that the land.
owners of the country. with one excep
ton" had given every facility to IN
troops using their land. and the "excap
ton IS we'll known TO be Miss Rothschild