The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-04

thirticth anniversary Of his first cleo
ton.
Since that day the strong fighter
always with his loyal wife. daughter
had been an invalid a pathetic on
locker at the political game, pictured
OF w. {. Endicotte. of Massachusetts,
who was President Ceveland's sec
retary Of war. beside him. His chief
consultations were the growing politi-
cal prominence OF his son, Austen
Chamberlain. and the loyalty of his
constituents. Birmingham would not
dcposed her leader, although he was
no longer able to represent her un-
on the floor of the House of Com
mons In each election he was re-
turned to his old seat. and appeared
afterward in the house but once.
his way to the speakers desk on the
where amid respectful silence. he made
arm of his son and took the oath of
office. January 5, 1913. Mr. Chamber
lain wrote to his constituents. resign
Ing his seat. and saying:
IL cannot hope again to do my work
in Parliament. and feel that our city
and the constituency need the SER
vices OF Il younger man"
For High Tariff.
While his greatest claim to fame
wns his determined and brilliant adj
vocacy for years of protective pol
icy FOE Great Britain, the citadel Of
Free Trade. he will also be rcmem-
bered as the bitterest and most force
full opponent of Gladstone in that
statesman's efforts for Home Rule for
ireland. nf m
Eiberal-unionist. party: and as the
Minister whose policy in South Africa
involved his country in the greatest
war 1t had experienced since the
Crimean conflict, but blottcd out the
two Boer republics and made South
Africa "all red"
From the day he left University Col
iege. London. to enter his fathers
smreW factory at Birmingham.
Joseph Chamberlain devoted his best
cnergies to the principle of con-
.structive REFORM" 1t was in 1868.
just 32 years after tho birth In Lon
don. that he received hia baptism of
public life, az town councillor of
Birmingham. later serving as mayor
for successive terms He gave his
whole time to the cause of munich
pal reform. and what had been pre-
viously ore -. the worst governed
cities In England. became a model
for municipal REFORMS.
Against lvisli, Rule
In 1876 he entered Parliament, be-
lug elected. without opposition as.
Liberal from Birmingham. In his
early years in the Commons he SIT
among the Home Rule Liberals With
whose aspirations he was supposed to !
sympathize. but few years later he
emphatically disabused his associates
In the House Of any notion they may,
have had $of his belief in sepsrate
government for Ireland.
In; lesa than four years- he was q
cabinet minister. entering. GlaGstone's
government, in. 1890 as President of
the Board OF Trade, and. in less. than
a decade his hola on popular, opinion
was almost as great as Gladstone's.,
After the general election of 1885
ho became President Of tho Local
Government Board, hut by the spring
OF 1886 his and 0ladstone's relations
on the, latter'sl Irish, policy had be-
come so strained that he broke with
the great premier, resigned hts place
In the cabinet and left the Liberal
party never to- return to it. ,.....;34i,
He. Lord Harrington. (afterwards
the Duke Of Devonshire), g. J., Cos
chen and others high In the. Liberal
party. who saw In their former lead
er's home rule proposals and. pro-
paganda. menace to the integrity Of
.he empire, formed la new party toI
Ia nm
liberal Unfonista alnh santf-home. rule
was. In the beginning. their main
tenet. Lord Harrington was the first
leader. but when he was, elevated To
the peerase through !se death of his