Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — The English Liberals. [ARTICLE]

The English Liberals.

While Lord Roseberry has been free to criticise his own party and to allege that it could not exist under its present conditions he has been equally unreserved concerning the conservative party and government. Never, said he, in the remembrance of any impartial observer, has there been "any government which had crowded such a frightfu.l assemblage of error, weakness and wholesale blunders into Its administration.” The grave fault of the liberals is they can agree on no policy. They are split into fragments and yet so desirous are the leaders to keep together that at a dinner a short time since given at the Reform club, a vote of confidence was given to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as the leader of the party. This, said Loyd Roseberry, quoting the famous phrase of Disraeli, is "organized hypocrisy.” In fact the liberal party in Qreat Britain is very much in the plight of the democratic party in the civil war, “in favor of the war, but agin its prosecution.” It has been discovered that the Rothschilds are the holders of the missing ticket for the prize of 100,000 francs in M. Coquelin’s lottery in behalf of the Dramatic Artists' association at Paris. They have given the money to the society. General Fitzhugh Lee has decided that the business in which he has determined to engage upon retiring into private life near Richmond, Va., will be "of an Industrial character," but beyond this he has refused to make any statement for publication. According to the anthropologist, Alfredo Nlcefore, a north Italian differs less from a German than he does from a Sicilian. ,