Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-04
DEATH CLAIMS
 GREAT ENGLISH
 STATESMAN Joseph Chamberlain, Strick- en With Paralysis in 1906,
 Dies in London.
STARTED LIFE AS
 FACTORY WORKER
Was Pioneer in Great Britain of Variii Reform and Leading Advocate of
 mperialism-TOOk as Third
 Wife Massachusetts Woman.

London, July 3.-Joseph Chamber lain died at his London home here at l0:30 o'clock last night. His death came as a surprise. He had been suf- fering with paralysis, yet the condi- tlOn of his health was not known to be any worse than for the past three ,; years.
 The cause of Mir Chamberain's s death was officially announced today as heart failure. Although he had been gradually sinking since Tuesday. members of the family had preferred that his condition should not become publicly known.
 Mrs. Chamberlain, who never left her husbands side since he was stricken with paralysis seven years ago, and his son, Austen Chamber lain, were with Mir. Chamberlain whe ndeath came. The event cast a gloom over the London season, which was at it's height.
 I MT. Chamberlain's last public ap- pearance was at garden party on the grounds of his Birmingham home on May 6 last, when, with his wife and son, he received several hundred con- stltuents. MT. Chamberlain was wheeled out on the lawn in chair, and appeared very feeble when he n1ted hls hat to friends and neighbors Ill acknowledgement of their salutes.
 Tariff reforms which, with imperial ism, were the chief policies for which Joseph Chamberlain was spokesman when enforced retirement through pa- ralysls occurred, have suffered an al- most complet eeclipse his son. Aus ten, being almost the only British statesman who advocates it on all oc- casions.
 Tariff Reform Pioneer.
 The Right Honorable Joseph Cham
 berlain was the pioneer in Great Brit ain of tariff reform, and the great advocate of imperialism. For 3S years, with a brief interregnum, he represented Birmingham in parlia- ment. In 1906 his career of stormy activities was ended by a stroke of pa ralysis. The blow fell when he was ln the midst of a strenuous campaign for the establishment of a protective tariff with preference for the British Colonles, and just after his constitu- ents had celebrated the thirtieth an nlversary of his first election. Since that day the strong fighter had been an invalid, pathetic on locker at the political game. pictured always with his loyal wife, daughter Of w. c. Endicott of Massachusetts who was President Cleveiand's secre- tary of war, beside him. His chief cancellations were the growing poli- tlcal prominence of his son, Austen Chamberlain, and the loyalty of his constituents. Birmingham would not dispose of her leader, although he was no longer able to represent her upon the floor of the house of com mons. In each election he was re- turned 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 and took the oath of office. January 5, 1913, MT. Chamberlain wrote to his constituents. resigning his seat, and saying:
 Il cannot hope again to do my work In parliament, and I feel that our city and the constituency need inc services of younger man."
 While his greatest claim to fame was his determined and brilliant ad- vocacy for years of protective policy TOT Great Britain, the citadel of free trade, ne will also be remembered as the Dltterest and most forceful oppo- nent of Gladstone in that statesman's enorts for home rule for Ireland; as one of the founders of the Liberal Unlon1st party; and as the minister whose policy in South Africa involved ms country in the greatest war it had experienced since the Crimean con- tllct, but plotted out the Boer re- public and made South Africa "all red"
 l Was a RefOrmer.
 From the day he left University College, London to enter his fathers l screw factory at Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain devoted his best ener- gies to "the principle of constructive | reform" It was in 1868, just 32 years after his birth in London, that ] he received his baptism of public | life, as town councillor at BirmIng- ham, later serving as mayor for suc- eesive terms. He gave his whole time to the cause of municipal re- form, and what had been prevlously one of the worst governed cities inI ngland became model for munici-l | lal refOrmers. In 1876 he entered parliament, be- ing elected without opposition as al Liberal from Birmingham. In his| early years in the Commons he sat among the Home Rule Liberals, with whose aspirations he was supposed tol sympathize, but few years later her emphatically disahused his associates ii, tho fbOuSn If any yIOfiOu thov ma VI have had of his belief in separate government fore Ireland
 In less than four years he was al cabinet minister, entering Glad stones government in 1880 as presi- dent of the board of trade, and in les than decade his hold on popular