Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-03
CHAMBERLAIN DEAD,
LONG IN Retirement.
BRITISH STATESMAN sUccuM9s
AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF
s lNvALIDISM.
PIONEER ADVOCATE OF
HIGH TARIFF FOR NATION
ch.mberIain Long in Public Lite
Bitter Enemy Of Gladstone, With
Whom He Broke After Serving in
i cabinet-Present Wife Miss Endieott,
Former Massachusetts, Girl.

London, July 3.-The death Of Jo-
seph Chamberlain, which removes one
Of the most striking figures Of British
politics in the past generation. came as
a surprise as the condition of his
health was not publicly known to be
any worse than at any time during the
last two or three years.
Mrs. Chamberlain, who never left
her husbands side since he was strick-
en- with paralysis seven years ago, aud
his son, Austen Chamberlain. were
with Mr.. Chamberlain when death oc-
Cured 1t 10:30 o'clock last night at his
London residence. The event cast
gloom over the London season, which
was at its height.
Last Appearance May 8.
Mr.. Chamberlain's last public ap-
pearance was at garden party on the
grounds of his Birmingham home on
May last, when. with his wife and
son, he received several hundred con-
stituents. Mr.. Chamberlain was
wheeled out on the lawn in chair ana
appeared vecy emaciated and feeble
when he lifted his hat to friends and
neighbors in acknowledgment OF their
salutes.
Tariff reforms which. with imperial.
ism, were the chief policies for which
Joseph Chamberlain was spokesman
when enforced retirement thru paraly-
sis occurred, having suffered an al
most complete collapse. his son Austen
being almost the only British states
man who advocates them on all occa-
sions.
Pioneer Tariff Reforner.
The Right Honorable Joseph Cham
berIain was the pioneer in Great Bri'
tain or tariff reform, and the great
advocate Of imperialism. For thirty
Sisht years, with . brief interregnum.
he repreSented Birmingham in parlia-
mehts In 1905 his career OF stormy ac-
tiyities was ended by a stroke OF parai.
ysis. The blow fell when he was IN
the midst Of strenuous campaign Tor
the establishment Of a protective tarin
with preference for the British colon
les. and just after his constituents had
celebrated the thirteenth anniversary
of his first election.
Since that day the strong fighter had
been an invalid. pathetic on-looked
at the pOIlIlSdl, SdIAAS, PaSI1ASA a. '" ~ =
with his loyal wife, daughter OF w. Z.
Endicott, of Massachusetts,, who was
President Clevelands secretary Of war,
beside him. His chief consultations were
the growing political prominence of his
son. Austen Chamberlain, and the 10y
atty Of his constituents, Birmingham
would not depose her leader, altho he
was no longer able to represent her
upon the floor of the house of COM
mons. In each election he was returned
to his old seat and appeared afterward
in the house but once, where amid re-
spectful silence he made his way to the
sneakers desk on the arm of his son
and took the oath of office. Jan. 5,
1913. Mr.. Chamberlain wrote to his
constituents, resigning his seat, and
saying:
II can not hope again to dc my work
in parliament, and feel that our city
and the constituency need the services
Of younger man"
Opponent Of Gladstone.
while his greatest claim to fame
was his determined and brilliant ad-
yocacy for years of q protective policy
for Great Britain, the citadel Of free
trade, he will also be remembered as
the bitterest and most forceful oppon
ent Of Gladstone in that stateman's ef-
forts for home rule for Ireland: as one
of the founders Of the liberal-unionist
party: and as the minister whose poll
Icy in South Africa involved his coun-
try in the greatest war It had exper-
fenced since the Crimean conflict. put
blotted out the two Boar republics and
made South Africa "aI red.'
From the day he left University
College. London, to enter his fathers
screw factory at Birmingham, Joseph
Chamberlain devoted his best energies
to "the principle of constructive re-
FORM" It was in 1868, just thirty two
years after his birth in London, that
he received his baptism Of public life,
as town councillor of Birmingham.
later serving as mayor for successive
terms. He gave his whole time to the
cause Of municipal reform, and what
had been previously one Of the worst
governed cities in England, became a
model for municipal reformers.
In 1876 he entered parliament, being
elected without opposition as q liberal
from Birmingham. In his early years
in the commons he sat among the
home rule liberals with whose aspira-
tions he was supposed to sympathize,
but q few years. later he emphatically
disabused his associates in the house
OF any notion they may have had of
his belief in separate government for
ireland.
In less than four years he was cab
inet minister, entering Gladstone's gov
ernment in 1880 as president Of the
board OF trade, and in less than a
decade his hold on popular opinion was
almost as greal as Gladstone's.
After the general election Of 1885 he
became president Of the local govern
sssscn. hoard. but by the spring Of 1885
his and Gladstone's relations on the
latter's irish policy had become so
strained that he broke with the great
premier. resiSRed his place in the cabi-