The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-03
CHAMB AIN, BRITISH LEADER, DEATHS VICTIM Succumbs to Paralysis From Which He Has Suffered
 Since 1906 HIS AMERICAN WIFE
 WITH HIM TO END Statesman Was Pioneer of Tariff, Reform Idea Tn
 Great Britain

Tariff, Reform Idea Tn
 Great Britain
 London, July 8.-Joseph Chamber lain. prominent for many years as leader in British politics, died here hast night Death came as a. surprise, as the condition of his health was not publicly known to be any worse than at any time in the past two or three years.
 Mrs Chamberlain. who was the daughter of the late William C. Endi- cott Of Massachusetts, secretary of war in President C1eveland's cabinet, has never left her husbands side stnce he was stricken with paralysis seven years ago and she and her stepson, Austen Chamberlain, were with him when death occurred
 MT. Chamberlafn's last public ap- pearznce was at a garden party on the grounds of his Birmingham home on May last when, with l1ds wife and son he received several hundred con- stituents. Mr. Chemb erlain was wheeled out on the lawn and appeared very elnaciated and feeble when he lifted his hat to friends and neigh bors in acknowledg1nen of their sa- lutess
 The cause of Mr. Chanrberlasn's s
  to have been heart failure. Although he had been gradually sinking since Tuesday the members of the family had preferred that his desperate con fdition should not become publicly known.
 Joseph Chamberlain was the pioneer in Great Britain Of tartn reform, and the great advocate of inpertalisra- For thirty-eiEht years with a brief interregnurn, he repFeseuted B1rn1ing- ham in Parliament. In 1s06 his career stroke of paralysis. The blow fell when he WAS in the mfds1 Of a stren- nous campaign for the establashEnent Of a protective tariH with preference for the. British colonies, and just af- ter his constituents had ce;ebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his first cleo ton
 Since that day the strong fighter had been an invalid, a pathetic on locker at the political game, pictured always with hss loyal wife His chief consolatione were the growing politi- Chamberlain, and the loyalty of his constituents Birmingham would not dispose her leader, although he was no longer able to represent her upon the floor of the House of Commons In each election he was returned to his
  the house but once, where amid re- spectful silence, he made his way to the speakers desk on the arm of his son and took the oath Of office Jan nary 5. 1913, MT Chamberlain wrote to his constituents, resigning his seat, and saying:
 'I cannot hope again to do my work in Parliament. and feel that our city and the constituency need the services of a younger man
 While this greatest claim to fame was his determined and brilliant ad- vocacy for years of g protective policy for Great Britain. the citadel of free trade, he will also be remembered as the, bitterest and most forcefuI oppo- fnent Of Gladstone in that statesman's efforts for Home Rule for Irelands as one of the founders of the Liberal whose policy in South Africa involved his country in the greatest war it had experienced since the Crimean con htct, but plotted out the two Boer re- pubIics and made South Africa 'talI red.''
 From the day he left University College. Lohdon, to enter his fathers screw factory at Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain devoted his best enegies to 'sthe principle of constructive re- form" It was in 1888, just 32 years after his birth in London, that he re- cefved his baptfsm- 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 gov erned cities in England, became model for municipal reformers
 In 1S76 he entered Parliament, be- ing elected without opposition as a Liberal from Birmingham. In his early years in the Commons he sat among 4I1e Home Rule Liberals vzfft, whose aspirations he was supposed to sympathize, but a few years later he ernphaticaIIy disabused his associ- ates in the House of any notion they may have had of his belief in separate government for Ireland
 Tn less than four years he was a cabinet minister, entering GIadstone's 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 1883 he became President of the Local Government Board, but by the snTiue. of ISs6 his and GIadstone's relations I on the latter's Irish policy had be- come so strained that he broke with the great premier, resigned his place in the cabinet and left the gIiberai party never to return to it
 He. Lord Harrington (afterwards the Duke of Devonshire), G. J. Go schen and others high in the Liberal party who saw in their former lead CTS home rule proposals and propa- ganda a menace to the integrity of the empire, formed new party to resist them They called themselves Liberal Unfonists and anti-home rule was in the beginning, their main tenet Lord Harrington was the first leader but, when he was elevated to
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