Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-03
HEART failure
CAUSES DEATH
His Demise Came as a Great
Surprise-Wife with Him
to the End.
PIONEER OF TARIFF
REFORM IN BRITAIN
Entered Parliament in 1976-Was
Gladstone's Bitterest Opponent in
HIS Efforts to Obtain Home Rule
for Iriah-Had Remarkable Career.

HIS Efforts to Obtain Home Rule
for Iriah-Had Remarkable Career.
London, July s.-Joseph Chamber
lain died here last night. His death,
which removes one Of the most strik-
ing figures in the past generation from
British politics. came as an entire sur
prise, as the condition of his health
was not publicly known to be any
worse than at any time during the
past two or three years. Mrs. Cham
berlain, who never left her husbands
side since he was stricken with paraly-
ten Chamberlain, were with Chamber
lain when death occurred at 10:30
o'clock at the London residence. The
event cast a gloom over the London
season. which Is at Its height.
.Chamberlain's last public appear
ance was at garden party on the
grounds of his Birmingham home.
May s. last when. with his wife and
son. he received several hundred con-
stituents.
It was officially announced that
Chamberlain's death was caused from
heart failure.
Pioneer of Tariff Reform.
The Right Honorable Joseph Cham
berlain was the pioneer In Great Bri-
tain Of Tariff Reform, and the great
advocate Of Imperialism. For thirty
eight years, with q brief interregnum
he represented Birmingham in parlia-
ment. In 1906 his career OF stormy
activities was ended by a stroke of
in the midst Of strenuous campaign
for the establishment Of protective
tariff with: preference fof the British
colonies, and just after his constitu-
ents had celebrated the thirtieth an
niversary Of his nrst election.
Since that day the strong fighter
had been an invalid, pathetic on
locker at the political game, pictured
always with his loyal wife, a daugh-
ter of w. c. Endicott of Massachu.
setts, who was President Cleveland's
Secretary of War, beside him. His
chief consultations were the CROWN:
political prominence of his son Auster
Chamberlain. and the loyalty Of his
constituents. Birmingham would no
dispose her leader, although he was
no longer able to represent her upor
the floor Of the house Of commons H.
each election he was returned to hi.
old seat, and appeared afterward ir
the house but once, where amid re-
spectful silence, he made his way IT,
the speakers desk on the arm of hie
son and took the oath of office, Janu-
ary s, 1913, Mr.. Chamberlain wrote tc
his constituents, resigning his seat.
and saying:
IT cannot hope again to do my work
in parliament and 1 feel that our city
and the constituency need the serv-
ices Of a younger man."
Gladstone's Opponent.
While his greatest claim to fame
was his determined and brilliant ad
for Great Britain, the citadel Of free
trade. he will also be remembered as
the Interest and most forceful oppon-
ent of Gladstone in that statesman S
efforts for Home Rule for Ireland; as
one of the founders Of the Liberal
Unionist party; and as the Minister
whose policy in South Africa involved
his country in the greatest war it had
experienced since the Crimean con-
flict, but blotted out the two Boer re-
publics and made South Africa "all
red"
From the day he left University Col
lege, London. to enter his father S
screw factory at Birmingham. Joseph
Chamberlain devoted his best energies
to "the principle Of constructive re-
form" It was In 1868, just 80 years
ceived 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 Parliament in 1879.
In 1875 he entered parliament, be-
ing elected without opposition as a
Liberal from Birmingham. In his
early years in the Commons he sat
among the Home Rule Liberals with
eympathize, 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 gov
ernment for Ireland.
In less than four years he was q
cabinet minister, entering Gladstone g
government in 1880 as president Of
the board Of trade, and in less than
a decade his hold on popular opinion
was almost as great as Gladstone's.
After the general election of 1885
he became president Of the local gov
ernment board, but by the spring Of
1885 his and Gladstone's relations on
the latter's Irish policy had become go
strained that he broke with the great
cabinet and left the Liberal party
never to return to It.
He. Lord Harrington afterwards
the Duke of Devonsh!re), g. ]. Cos
chen, and others high in the Liberal
party who saw in their former leaders
home rule proposals and propaganda
a menace to the integrity of the en-
pire, formed new party to resist
them. They called themselves Liber-
al Unionists ana anti-home rule was.
in the beginning, their main tenet.
Lord Harrington was the first leader
but when he was elevated to the peer
age through the death Of his father,
Mr.. Chamberlain was chosen the par
ty's chief.
Visited United States.
Meanwhile Mr.. Chamberlain had
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