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{HE DAinY KXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, FEBRUARY 10 1900

A STATESMANLIKE SPEECH

Lord Rosebery Hloquently Reviews the Situation

THE BOER WAR. PENIN REMARKS,

Speaking at (hatham, England, a

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short time ago, )we quote the London Times report,) lord Rosebery said:

Lord Rosebery who was again loud- *- cheered in rnsing to propose the} toast of “Prosper ty to the Borough of Chatham,” said.--I thank you very

much for the heartiness of your recep

tion I have been entrusted with a toast from which I have vainly en- deavored to diser gage myself in favor

of seme one more locally acquainted | with the topic, but I have failed, ard thercfore it is with pleasure that I pro- |

pose succinctly “Prosperity to the| Borcugh of Cheatham.” (Cheers.) I! need hardly say that your member

wou!d have done :t much better than I could, but he has declined on the: ground that you have enough of him already (laughter), and would rather héar afresh mind being applied to this loca! topic. Bu: I do not propose to rp'v my mind to topic to-day. You know allabcout Chatham. You all prosperity, and there is no

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wisn it necessity for a stranger, coming here at such atime as this, to drink pros- perity to the borough of Chatham. Ycu have a character of prosperity to- day which to my inind is worthy to be reuembered. At atime of war which streiches us on the rack of expectation —a war more formidable in some re-' spects than any in which we have ever’ been engaged—Chatham proceeds plac dly to open its town-hall. I like’ ; an indicat on of your spirit, and ng as that is vour spirit, you will nct want people to propose and to Ciick “strength and prosperity to your

rr.” (Cheers.) I said that in some

ts this is tie- most formidable | war in which we have ever been engag- ed ; ondas this, after all, is the topic which engages us to the exclusion of excry other at this moment, perhaps you will excuse me for diverging fora mcnent from the immediate topic of il ur tO Say a lew words which are ver) near to my heart.

BALANCI GAIN AND LOSS.

ve said, thes, this is one of the! n rmidable wrs, and in some re- spects the most formidable, in which we have ever been engaged. It is the most formidable in respect of the} nunber of British t oops whichare now ar lin the fiel!. No such British armiy has ever been sent from our shores before, and n that respect alone th ir takes a pr mary place among the wars in which we have been engag- ed. It is formid ble because I find ari against us, on false, insufficient, ¥ some respec 's corrupt informa- tic most the ur inimous opinion of Eu oe n itself is a formidable fae [ am not go) 1g to stop to explain on t that misap)rehension 1s found- ed. ‘Chere isa great deal of ill-will flo ibout against this country at ali tines and in all circumstances, and the encies of cur active and in- teiligent enemy ire by no means

$11 ring in Europe while the war is ragirg ; but atthe present time there is a conviction, wh ch of course is not unr: ul, that this isa great Empire wee ny war against two small Repub- lics,and that, therefore, the natural sympathy of those who love freedom must be with them. It is not necessary to point out to suc} an assembly as | this it.e inherent fa) sity of that con-| vict We are fi: hting, not against | freecc om, but against privilege and | against a corrupt anc! despotic oligarchy.

(cheers.) Of course, with such a war we must have our bad moments and we have had our bad moments—I

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trust in the previdence of God that they over (hear, hear)— but, at any rate, I think the time has come when we may strike a balance between the evils we have undergone and the good we have derive |, and having done that 1 did not think the balance is

much against us. ‘There is no doubt, of course, that in the debt side of the balance we have to reckon the loss of many gallannt lives. I hope that it may not be unseemiy, or that it may not be individious, .§ I mention the name cf the chivalrous General Wau- chope, whose loss has caused a gap in

that portion or the Uuited Kingdom to which he and 1 belong. (Cheers.)

We have lostsome gz lant lives, and we do not feel confiden: that some of this loss of life might uo: have been avoid- ed ; but even here we may console our- selves with the thought that, “To every man on earth «!eath cometh soon or late,” and that a man cannot die better when his time comes than in the cause of his Queen and his country.

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(Cbeers.) We have had _ reverses ; these, agaln, we must put to the debit side of our balance __ But, after all, re- verses such as we have had, grevious vs they are for the moment and pain-- ful as they are to those who suffered the loss of those near and dear to them are only incidents in the history of a country like ours. We must net take them too gravely. I will give youa reminence which may make you under stand how transient, after all, these reverses are. We are fighting under

| similar conditions of strategy and local-

ity, a battle like that whicha great

military Empire like Austria had to!

fight when it look over the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She thought as some of us thought, that fighting against these mountainers would be a

_ very simple matter, and that she would

soon reduce them to order. But it took

two or three hundred thousand men to

settle them, and she, after all, was only fighting the mountaineers and some Turkish troops in that country, not

very sufficiently or powerfully armed We, on the other .

or adequately led. are fighting men possessed of the best weapons that science can _ produce, purchased largely out of the earnings of our own fellow-countrymen; led, not by Boer generals alone, but by the stray condettieri, the loose talent of Europe, called forth fromthe bosoms of our friends and neighbors,who take part with our enemies in the field. (Hear, hear.) Where are other considerations that may console us under these re- verses, One is that, if you look over the history of the past, you will always see that England has begun badly on land. Land is not our primary or natural element (laughter), and it has been unfortunately the fate of England, in almost every great campaign that ]

, can recollect, to have begun with a

considerable amount of disaster, and misfortune. Another consolation is this. ‘Though I read with the greatest interest the criticisms of the military

experts on the Continent, and read

with a considerably greater interest the |

deductions they drew that the sun of England is setting, and setting forever. I am not aware that any other country in the world has ever sent an army of 120,000 men to fight 7,000 miles away from its base.- (Cheers.) Ifthat bea fact, as it is a fact, we need not think the impotence of England is so great as itis supposed to be on the Contin-

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OUR PRESTIGE AND OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER.

There is a third item which we must set down on the debit side. There is a great ‘oss of prestige. The word “prestige” hag not always been in good colour in this couutry. Yet every thoughtful person must feel that it is a token of empire and a very useful as- set in the pessessions of the empire. I suppose that at the end of 1898 the

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prestige of England stood pigher than it has stood since Waterloo. Iam afraid that this war has dispersed a good deal of that sentiment ; but I ask you to remember that, if it was ill- founded, it is infinitely better that it should be dispelled now than that, resting ona rotten foundation, it should lure us by its dream of power into enterprises which might be much more disastrous. (Cheers.) That prestige, I venture to predict, will be recovered without much difficulty. What we have to do is to set ourselves, with as little Jossas may be, to recover all that prestige. When the war is fin- ished, if we set ourselves earnstly to do the work of recovering the reputa— tion which undoubtedly we have lost by our military operations in South Africa, we shall be infinitely more powerful, infinitely stronger. and infin- itely more formidable than at any pre- vious time of our history. (Cheers.) This country has two supreme assets, to a degree which no other country in the world possesses ; therefore I ven- ture to use the word “supreme.” They

} are our Navy and our capital (cheers)

—weapons of enormous importance in time of waa and instruments of enor- mous weight In time of peace. These are the supreme assets which we have in a condition superior to alt other na~ tions, and with the start of a Navy and capital, we should not be long in bnild- ing upour prestige, we have another rsset, but it would be offensive to other nations to say we have it ina degree superior to any others, and therefore I will not say it ; I will only say it is sol- id, visable, and tangible—I mean the character of our people. (Cheers.) That, at any rate, none can deny after what has occurred. Iam glad that I have come to that item in our assets because it takes meat once from the debit to the credit side of our account. I think that many of us of late years, in watching the march of prosperity, the march of luxury, the march of ease in this country, the heed-

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enormous responsibilities abroad with- out really thinking sufficiently of how we were to sustain these responsibilities, must have begun to fear that the nation must be suffering from fatty degengera- tion of the heart (laughter); that the nation might prove itself unworthy of its high destiny ; that it had had too easy a time ; andit required to be

| braced up and tested by adversity. I

venture to think that if that week. which ended withthe battle of the Tugela had been passed in some countries and among some peoples, it would have ended—perhaps not in revolution, though not impossibly in that—yet in such disquiet, such mortification, such accusations of betrayal and treachery against their chiefs, that the end of.the nation might have been visible. I for my part was never so proud of my country as at the end of that week. (Cheers.) There was no tendency to accuse anyone; politics disappeared absolutely ; there was was little or no criticism, none certainly of a_ party character. There was, on the other hand, a passionate resolve to pour out the last shilling and the last man to assist the country in her hour of need. We saw the ready offers to serve in the ranks as private soliders. We saw all classes of the community thinking in what way they could best serve the country. ‘There has been almost too great a competition of various schemes. At any rate, the spirit was there and the spirit is there; and if more reverses should come, which God forbid, there will be more money and men still forth- coming. (Cheers.) Aye, whatever foreign nations may think, they have not got to the bottom of Old England yet. (Prolonged cheering.) THE EMPIRE A REALITY.

1 could say the test of the character of our peoplejwill alone conuterbalance the losses we have undergone. But I say much more. We havea greater gain than that still to reckonup. Five- and-twenty years ago we had an Empire in name. It was the fashion

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fto consider it as something loosely ] ¢c mpacted which at any moment might break up, and asto which it was only a matter of calculat- ing the time when the principal mem- bers of it might depart and set up for themselves. I remember those days well. I daresay sothe of you remember them too. What, at any rate, this war has done, if ithas done nothing else, is to prove that the Empire is a fact ; that it is based on a rock ; that it is as compact as that, and that it is not merely a small congeries of countries in the world. (Cheers.) Australia, Canada, aye, and great parts of India, have shown a spirit not in- ferior to thatof the mother country herself. That has been—I can vouch for it, at any rate, in Australia, from which country I heard only yesterday— that has been not so much the work of Governments as the spontaneous im- pulse of the peoples themselves. (Cheers.) I say then that if with all reverses we had purchased only the fact that our Empire is a united Empire, and, therefore, henceforth a supreme factor in the balance of the world, we should have made a profit- able transaction out of the war.

THE NEED FOR SCIENTIFIC METHODS.

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principle that things have carried on so well so Zar, that we are a noble nation, that we are very rich, that we are pretty numerous, and that we have so muddled out right in the end (laughter) and indeed, with our love of liberty and with our free institutions, it is not a very easy matter to get things p'aced on a scientific or methodical basis. What with the obstruction in Parla- ment, what with the obstruction of privilege, with the obstruction of pre- judice,/the difficulty of getting any re- form carried through is so great that Governments, as a rule—-and small blame to them—prefer to patch up and botch vp any immediate difficulty that may be presented in our organization, and pass on until seme worse difficulty faces them. (Hear, hear.) Ido not deny that we are as great a nation a

any of our loud patriots may declar

us to be. I will certainly not yield to any of them in my belief in our qualities and in our des- tiny. But I say this, that we are a peo

ple of enormous waste. We waste simply by not pursuing scientific methods. Idonot like to compare us with Germany. It is hardly safe to mention the name of fereign Powers lest some innuendo be suspected, or

We ought to get another great ad- vantage out of this war, for, after all we in this country have mvch to learn and this war will have been a cheap one, whatever it may cost, if it has thoughtus several important lessons. I humbly think that in this country we live a great deal too much from hand tomouth. We do not proceed by

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else some guilty thought in one’s mind But at any rate we may be certain of this—taking Germany asan example of the opposite method of treatment — Germany is infinitely more pains—tak- ing and scientific 1n its methods than But without taking as a model Germany or any other country, | be- lieve, if we wish to take full advantage of the lessons of this war after it. is concluded, we must become more scientific in our methods in commerce, in education, and in war. We are not methodical, we are not scientific, we are not abreast of the more advanced nations ef the day; and if we want to keep our place we will have to consider the lessons we have been taught in this respect. Depend upon it, however brilliant you may be, the tortoise of investigation, method, and preparation will always catch up and overtake the hare which leaves everything to the

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in the field is at this moment, the task that remains for us after this war is completed is the greatest task that ever lay beforea nation. You will have when this war is over, to put your Em-

pire on a business footing. We must [have no more discussions as to the}way in which one thing has happened to go wrong, or has - happened to go right. We must,consider deliberately, patient- ly, and scientifically, the methods by which we have been accustomed to proceed, andsee in what way they have fallen short; and determine to recon- sider and! revise them. I believe that as a task which will occupy’ the Gov- ernment, and perhaps many Govern-

ments, before you will see your Em- pire as it should be. That ‘task will have to be faced but, of course before that comes we have another task be- fore us which is great indeed. We have not finished the war. We have first to take in hand the bringing of it to a triumphant conclusion. We have, secondly, when that war is completed,

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or Snuff on a sore on the outside of your nose. Would you ?

Why do you do it then with the little Ca- tarrhal ulcers on the inside of your nose? Japanese Catarrh Cure is a healing salve. It is the only real cure

for Catarrh. A well-known lady of Springfield, Ont., writes a few commonsense

words regarding her experience in try- ing Japanese Catarrh Cure. She says: —‘* Enclosed find $2.50 for six boxes of Japanese Catarrh Cure. A few days ago I received a sample box, and from the results obtained from this sample I am sure the remedy will cure me. I have great faith in a salve like this for catarrh and believe it to be the proper thing. We never blow powder on a sore of any kind, and I don’t see why people advertise powders to cure catarrh. I have tried all the powders on the market, they relieved at the time, but I was worse when I stopped using them. Japanese Catarrh Cure is a healing, penetrating, volatile pomade, it reaches every catarrbal diseased portion of the head and throat, and will permanently cure any

inspiration and effort of the moment.

(Cheers.) Great as the task before us

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