Arizona republican., 1914-07-04
Famous English Tariff Re-
former Joseph Chamber
lain Dies Suddenly-The
News Creates Great Sur
prise All Over World
HAD BEEN SICK
FOR THREE YEARS
Became Noted Through a
Violent Split With Glad
stone Over Home. Rule
for Ireland Had Amer
lean Wife
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl

LONDON. July 3.-Joseph Cham
he.lain. one of the most striking fig
ures of British politics of the last
generation, died here last night
There was much surprise. as it was
not publicly known that he was any
worse than at any time in the last
three wears.
Chamberlain funeral. which ac-
cording to his own wishes will be
simple will be held in the Messiah
Unitarian church, in birmingham, Oh
Monday Interment will be in Hook
lev cemetery. In youth Chamberlain
was q Sunday school teache' in Mes
sIah church.
Mrs. Chamberlain received through
out the day numerous messages of
coincidence, including messages from
King George. Queen Mary. Queen
Mother Alexandria, and other mem
bers of the royal family, and from
prominent persons at home and
abroad.
The Right Honorable Joseph Cham
tain of tariff reform. and the great ad
vocate of Imperialism. For thirty -eight
years, with a brief interregnum, he
represented Birmingham in parliament.
In 1906 his career of stormy activities
was ended by a strokJof paralysis.
The blow fell when he was in the midst
of a strenuous campaign Tor the eSfob
lishment of a protective tariff With
preference for the British colonies, and
just after his constituents hac cele-
brated the thrtieth anniversary of his
first election.
Since that day the strong fighter had
been an invalid, a pathetic on-looker
at the political game. pictnred always
with his loyal wife, daughter of w. G.
EndicOtt of Massachusetts, who was
President Cleveland's secretary of war,
beside him His chief consultations
We're the growing political prominence
of his son Austen Chamberlain. and the
loyalty of his constituents Birming-
| ham would not dispose he. leader, al
though he was no longer aDla to rep
resent her upon the floor Of the house
| returned to his old seat, and appeared
afterWard IN the house but once, where
amid respectful silence, he made his
way to the speakers desk on the arm
| of his son "rd toon the oath of office
January 5. 1913. Mr. Chamberlain
| wrote to his constituents, resigning his
| seat, and saying:
| Il cannot hope again to do my work
in parliament. and feel that our city
and the constituency need the services
| &C younger man.
While his greatest claim to fame was
his determined and brilliant advocacy
| for years of q protective policy for
Great Britain. the citadel of free trade,
he will also be remembered as the bit
| terest and NOSE forceful opponent 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 pol
icy in South Africa involved his coun-
try in the greatest war it had expert
enced since the Crmean conflict, but
blotted out the two Boer republics and
| Ildue SOulI Africa all RED
From the day he left University Col
lege, London, to enter his fathers screw
factory at Birmingham. Joseph Cham
| berlain devoted his best energies to
the principle of constructive reform
1t was in 1868, just 32 years after his
| birth in London, that he received his
baptism of public life, as town coun-
cillor 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 previ-
ously one of the worst governed cities
in England became model for mum =
cipal reformers
In 1876 he entered parliament. being
elected without opposition as a liberal
from birmingham. In his early years
in the commons he sat among the home
rule liberals with whose aspirations he
was supposed to sympathize, but a few
wears later he emphatically disabused
his associates in the house of any no.
ton they may have had of his belief ir
| separate government for Ireland
In less than four years he was 4
sabinet minister, entering Gladstone's
government in 1880 as president of the
board of trade, and in less than de-
cade his hold on popular opinion was
almost as great as Gladstone's
After the general election of 1885 he
became president of the local govern.
ment board. but by the spring of 1885,
his and Gladstones relations on the
latter's Irish policy had become SC
strained that he broke with the grea
premier, resigned his place in the cab.
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