The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-06

| downright hatred OF compromise, anu
when he S in fight. likes TO fight 10
finish, without breaking off for any
sort of palavcr. Joe viii he heard
Of whenever and wherever the fight Is
hottest,
About Balfour's s Followers.
The conservative policy comedies the
necessity of some reform of the house
of lords, and finds planks for ITS po,
| iitical platform in Chamberlain 5 tauf
reform schemes, and pleas for q strong
navy. With common consent they erect
ed the bogey of Redmond. and asked
the country to repud,ate his claims be.
cause they were backed with American
| dollars This policy is called 'fplay-
| ing TO the gallery in Britain, and /
can hardly think that a great states
man like Arthur Balfour could have lent
| his sanction 10 such q frivolous objec.
| tion.
Intellectually Balfour is the greatest
man today concerned with politics in
! King George S realm. 4 personal friend
! of AsqUIth 5, he wears an air Of aloot-
ness compared with which the premier s
| detached manner Is panoplY of en-
| thusiasm. And so subtle is Balfour
that his own immediate followers are
still in the dark as To whether he is a
! whole hogger for protection or not.
For years past he has presented the
spectacle Of a leader who appears to
take the duties pertaining to his office
as a great bore Past master In mystify-
ing the members of his own party, he
! still retains a remarkable hold over the
J conservative opinion of the British
nation. for they sec in HIM one of the
few historic figures now remaining in
public affairs.
Balfour has always suffered. too, by
not having nickname. But neither
has King George, and this is real
King Edward. as the people S
Teddy did so much to consolidate
Though he is NIot yet affectionateIy
enshrined in a nickname, the British
sovereign got busy to good purpose in
! his country s affairs as soon as the
crisis happened along for he. too, is
ambitious of being known as a peace
maker
Austen Chamberlain is Balfour s
Imost redoubtablo henchmau Although
! his most ardent admirers cannot say
! that the mantle of his distinguished
father has fallen upon him, Austen is
nevertheless a man of parts. who has
already acquitted himself well as a
chancellor OF the eXchequer. Hs voice
is always heard respectfully by the
British electorate.
Smith an Able Man
More snowy and quite as able is F.
H. Smith, who is certain of scat in
the next Unionist cabinet. He and
Winston Churchill are great friends
outside the house Of commons. and they
are remarkably alike in temperament
and disposition. Both are inclined to
he impatient with their respective
leaders and both are first.class de
batcrs and platform speakers.
1 II was Smith. too who first appealed
TO the grosser preiudices of the nation
by handing out scorn to Redmond and
1T. p. O'Connor for replcnishiug the
Irish partv's war chest in America
and Canada. "The constitution oi
these islands had been put up 10 auc
tion in foreign country, saii
Smith, "and the honest broker mean
ing Redmond, chad returned to claim
the price of his brokerage - This cheaT
gibe has been repeated up and down thr
country, and has undoubtedly influ
enced some of the minimizing people
whose opinions veer according to pre-
iudIce or whlm.
Put there is solid body Of opinion
in Britain that feels sure that the best
way of ceuentiug Anglo American
friendship is to solve the Irish problem
on lines of home rule, and in many in
fluential quarters it is regretted thai
party recrimnatiens should have let
any politicians to speak slightlrglv ot
the aid always afforded by Trishmer