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LONDON, JUNE 25, 1903.

MEN OF THE DAY:
No. DCCCLXXXIV.

FIELD MARSHAL SIR HENRY WYLIE NORMAN,
G.C.B.

HE became a Londoner seven-and-seventy years ago, and at eighteen entered the Bengal Army. Since then he has held many ranks, including those of Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, Military Secretary to the Government of India, and Member of the Viceroy's Council. He has, moreover, governed Jamaica and Queensland, so that he knows both men and cities. He served through the Punjaub Campaign, and took part in several affairs on the Peshawur frontier. He fought through the Mutiny, and he has many medals and clasps. He once even accepted the great Office of Viceroy of India; but withdrew and presently became Chairman of a Royal Commission to report on the condition and prospects of the British West Indian Colonies. A couple of years ago he was chosen to govern the Royal Hospital at Chelsea and improved into a Field Marshal.

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JEHU JUNIOR.

Topsyturvy Reaction.

WE have for some time past foreseen and advocated a clearing up of the political situation, with a view of imparting some vital actuality to Party divisions, and thereby conferring the strength of some sane conviction upon the fighting men of the responsible Opposition. A general confession of the Imperial unity—the hand-grip of brothers in a tight place—makes a very wholesome starting-point for new and up-to-date divisions on a wholesome basis. The times demand, first of all, a Party which shall embrace all parties, and that is a National Party. The great anti-English conspiracy opened the eyes of the whole Empire to its dangers, to its obligations, to its unity. The first great lesson of the new era was learned, as many lessons must needs be learned, under rather nerve-trying durese. But the lesson was learned, and a tenacious people may be trusted not to forget, during the lives, at least, of our children's children. Out of the smoke and smother of a very deadly, dangerous fray England emerged transiently and boyishly jubilant, and having asserted and vindicated its ideas of honour and fair dealing, was quite prepared to put its coat on again and straightway forget what manner of peril it had won through. Of all that barked at us in the long rough-and-tumble of the South African struggle there was not one that cared, or dared to, bite. But that was a piece of prudence, or forbearance, on which the uninformed citizen of the Empire had no warrant to presume. He did not presume upon it: he did his best to enforce it, and one great result, from the Party point of view, of the challenge from South Africa was that Greater England was first, and Little England nowhere. The embodiment of this just and strenuous and sentimentally practical assertion of the rights and the unity in peril of the Empire was the Colonial Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain was afraid of using neither sentiment nor the

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MEN OF THE DAY:

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JEHU JUNIOR.

Topsyturvry Reaction.

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bluntest, most uncompromising sense. Our people all over the
world knew that he was right; and he speaks in a language
understood of the people.

Mr. Chamberlain now essays a move which if it do nothing
else should at least for a time give politicians, of every rank,
an opportunity of using their wits for the public good as they
see it without necessarily ranging themselves for their country
or for its enemies. A Statesman, trusted by the Democratic
Colonists oversea as he is honoured by the practical patriotic
sentiments of the Navy-wielding nucleus of respectable and
self-respecting freedom, proposes to adopt the Imperial fiscal
policy to the changed condition of things within the Empire and
outside of it. Knowing the importance of the issue, and bearing
his responsibility like the sword and shield of a true knight and
no partisan shashbuckler, Mr. Chamberlain says plainly what
he conceives to be for the honour and advantage of the Empire.
He springs no Party surprise upon Parliament or the nation.
He publishes a thesis for all the world to discuss; and he pub-
lishes it in time to allow very full discussion, in all political
probability, before any effective electoral judgment shall be
pronounced, upon a very momentous question. And how is
this statesmenlike sportsmanship greeted by the Party of
Progress? Every Radical "publicist," however ephemerally
newsy, cries out at once, "Away with him! Let his be the
"fate of Uzzah!" because, forsooth, he has essayed to steady
the Ark of their Free-Trade covenant! They begin by calling
upon the Government to bring the matter to an issue at once.
They go on to darken all counsel by begging the question in a
manner which would have disgraced a religious devotee on one
side or the other in the theological disputations of the Reformation
era. Every reactionary and bigoted trick and fallacy is already
in full work on the side of these loop-looping topsyturvy
champions of progress. Mr. Chamberlain has spoken, and
there is very little room for misunderstanding when Mr.
Chamberlain speaks. He is no orator, as Gladstone was; only
a plain, blunt man who loves his country. But such plain
bluntness, decked with singular graces of voice and language,
has kindled a more general flame of worthy and proved
patriotism than any Statesman's words since his prototype
Pitt.

The man who knows, the man singularly representative of
the business-like warrior of our rough Island story, propounds
a scheme of fiscal policy for which, in no arbitrary tone, he
claims a hearing. The scheme is certainly fascinating, if
feasible. It is for the best intellects, and still more for the
general, robust common sense of the country, to consider its
probabilities and its possibilities. It is for the Liberal mind
apparently to cry out upon the suggestion, even as the Tories
of George III.'s days cried out upon the claims of the American
Colonies to constitutional consideration. Free Trade has no
more intrinsic beauty than any other arbitrary formula. By
their fruits are the merits of formulæ known. Mr. Chamber-
lain challenges inquiry; and he riles the Little Englanders at
the outset by anticipating their famished cry. The food of the
people will be taxed. Why not, if they get more money to
buy food withal? The incomes of the people have been
scandalously overtaxed long enough. These Radical political
economists ought all to be made to study the elements of
common sense in practical life. The conditions of fifty years
ago cannot constitute a chose jugée for progressive Imperialists
to-day. They may be good enough for Sir Henry Campbell-
Bannerman, the fossils of the National Liberal Club, and the
wild hill-top men of impassioned Wales. We all have, or
ought to have, a due respect for the traditions of the past.
But the once iconoclastic Radicals carry their conservatism
a little too far. They put Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden
on an embarrassing, even an Herodian, pinnacle. Let them
not seek to closure the voices of new and vigorous states of our
realm, and think that because they are Cobdenishly virtuous,
Germany and the United States shall have all our cakes and
ale. Let us rather hear Mr. Chamberlain anticipated by
Sir Robert Peel: "I trust that the new Government will
"not resume that policy which they and we have found so
"inconvenient—namely, haggling with foreign countries instead
"of taking that independent course which we believe to be con-
"dutive to our own interests." The mantle of Sir Robert Peel,
as of Pitt also, has fallen upon Mr. Chamberlain. He does not

aspire to dragoon the Empire into unity and greater and more
assured prosperity. He says what he thinks, and he invites
his fellow-countrymen to consider his proposals without
prejudice. The country will certainly weigh them with
scrupulous care, but with not one atom of unworthy suspicion
to quaver the balance. It will not lend itself to the burking of
free and fair inquiry in deference to the susceptibilities of
any reactionary and disingenuous Radicalism.

The Westminster Week.

TUESDAY.—Hon. gentlemen who abide in the cold shade
of Opposition and have their habitation below the gangway
on the near side are not easy to satisfy—rather resembling
children crying in the market-place, or the victim tied up to
the triangles: wherever you hit 'em you fail to please them.
And, conversely, hon. and gallant gentlemen who live below
the gangway on the off side (called Irish landlords) are not
effervescently grateful either. Agag certainly cannot be
expected to please everybody with his patchwork counterpane,
which he calls an Irish Land Bill, but he might please some-
body! However, the Parliamentary Party say "No"; and with
dismal iteration, T. W., Tay Pay, with other initialised indi-
viduals, in combination with Orator Blake and the Melancholy
One, all of them singing the same song, propound the good old
riddle of how to get something for nothing, or heads I win,
tails you lose.

Wednesday.—Land Bill in Committee again, also Ascot;
enough to bring the chestnut locks of the Patronage Secretary
down with sorrow to the grave—for forty-one is not a large
margin to veer and haul on, and we all remember that critical
Cup Day when the Government depended on half a dozen
votes, and Sir Charles Fraser with Sir John Maclure (both,
alas! gone to the majority) were racing up the Members' stair-
case, putting their best foot forward—(N.B.—Which was their
best foot?)—with the division-bell ringing just as the door
closed. The fact being that the Patriot band is, since the
Redmond amendment, "Raging like a line, Like gallant Smith
O'Brine," and bristling for blood. No more bowing in the
house of Rimon or voting in the Tory Lobby for them!
Still, matters might be worse, for we have over 125 to the
good somehow. But what is the use of a majority if they
refuse to jump through the hoop?

Thursday.—Hon. and gallant friend "Tinto" is unfortunate.
He does his best to obtain information on the latest War-cum-
Foreign Office masterpiece in Somaliland, but the Field Marshal
is reticent on the subject of the unknown horn of Africa, and
matters seem somewhat involved in that quarter. Afterwards
we attack Scotch Education. Strange to say, discussion of
events North of the Tweed does not draw a full house.
Representatives of the nation fly from the Legislative Chamber
to terrace, smoking-room, or even to the bar of the Lords
(where they can neither hear the division-bell nor the sweet voices
of the Whips)—anything to put the breadth of Westminster
Hall between themselves and a Scotch debate. Even the Lord-
Advocate, Caldwell, Munro-Ferguson, or Farquharson (who
owns a mountain) fail to get them beyond the Lobby, charm
they never so wisely.

Friday.—The Commons House of Parliament combines the
wisdom of the serpent with the playfulness of the dove, for
to-day a brace of Licensing Bills and a Church Discipline
arrangement being on the paper, extraordinary interest
is developed in Out Relief and County Courts; and, in
addition, at the beginning of the sitting the sudden retire-
ment or absence of hon. gentlemen occasions the adjournment
of the House and temporary retirement of Mr. Speaker.
Oddly enough, the attractions of County Courts, as narrated
by Rollit, Kt., and Griffith-Boscawen, keep us going, and
neither Mr. Parson nor even Mr. Bung gets a look in to-day.

Monday.—Finance Bill. "My wound is great because it
is so small, Then 'twould be greater were it not at all." So
said the Earl of Rochester 'A.D. 1667, and if he had been
present in his astral body in the Peers' Gallery to-night and
heard the Farmers' Glory repeat his oration on the one shilling
duty, he might have said much the same thing over again, for
the representative of Sleaford, having proved to demonstration
that the registration fee effected nothing, argued that, all the
same, its withdrawal would blow the Party to bits, and was doubt-
less gratified by a division of some 400 to 30. Later on we
are attracted by Birmingham Middlemore who—perhaps not
unreasonably—objects, "Mr. Chairman, to being emasculated."
Henceforth, we blunder on from Corn Duty to Tea, enlivened
by Banbury, Bart., Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr.
Toots,

JAWKINS, M.P.