Show ARE FOOLING THEMSELVES Lord Rosebery Pulls Lord Salisbury Sal-isbury Over RedHot Coals IS BAD MANAGEMENT Foreign Complications Now Facing Fac-ing England I Within Six Months England Han Been on the Verge of War With America Then Viih Germany and Now i is Striking Out Agniiist Xo Particular Enemy The Black anil Bloody Page of Armenia Which England Will Always Al-ways Look Back to With Shame and Remorse LONDON March 27The Earl of Rosebery leader of the Liberal party made an important speech tonight before be-fore the National Liberal Federation Lord Rosabery complained of the foreign for-eign complications which had come upon up-on the country since Lord Salisbury had come into office He argued that the bill of Mr Long president of the agricultural board proposing to make permanent the restrictions on the importation im-portation of Canadian cattle was i wholly inconsistent with Colonial Secretary Sec-retary Chamberlains speech on Wednesday > i Wed-nesday before the Canadian club suggesting sug-gesting a small tariff on food products and raw material imported into Great I Britain for elsewhere than her colonies in return for the free entry of British manufactures into all the colonies His scheme for an imperial sovereign I sover-eign of the colonies and Great Britain Brit-ain Lord Rosebary continued speak irg of this speech demands VERY GRAVE CONSIDERATION both by those who propose it and by those who have to vote upon it He asked if this was a cabinet proposal pro-posal or was the programme of an individual in-dividual and why before making the proposals the government had intr duced the diseased animal bill which was a final damper upon one of the great sources of trade of the Canadian breeders with Great Britain He did not know hOw reconcile these two but he strongly suspected that the Canadian Ca-nadian thinker and politician and the man of business would prefer not to have had this great scheme promulgated promul-gated on condition that Mr Longs bill had not been submitted He ha only one thing to add and that was that he did not think that jIr Chamberlain Cham-berlain in any wise underestimated the views of the people of Great Britainv I I and the difficulties he would have to surmmmt with regard to free trade and foreign trade before he could succeed in putting his scheme into effect Lord Rosebsry further charged the government with A DEPLORABLE WANT of continuity in the foreign policy He pointed out that within six months they had been o the verge of war I with the United States and then with wih I I Germany and now they were embarking embark-ing on a war against no particular enemy He passed over the black and bloody page of Armenia he said which England would all look back to with shame and remorse Lord Salisbury up to the end of December had displayed display-ed leanings to the dreibund By the beginning of January his policy had landed Great Britain in the arms of France whose affections ut was intended to gain by the monstrous Siam convention That state had lasted last-ed about six weeks and them Lord Salisbury embarked in a march to the Salsbur Soudan which outrages France and throws Great Britain back into the arms of the dreibund Lord Rosebery I proceeded in detail to very strongly criticise the Nile expedition Continuing Lord Rosebery complained complain-ed of the indecision and failure of the government to take the country into their confidence He greatly feared that the government was FOOLING THEMSELVES as well as the country Was it the time he asked when we were men tme aced with complications in all quarters quar-ters of the world to scatter our forces in the deserts of the Soudan in a war which nobody could forese the end of and to waste the money which Egypt needed for great irrigation works The remainder of his speech was devoted de-voted to home politics Mr Curzon said Frances announcement announce-ment in regard to the annulling of existing ex-isting treaties with Madagascar was of extreme importance When the government govern-ment had received official notice of this action he said they would take proper steps to protect British interests Mr Chamberlain secretary of state for the colonies announced to the house that there was not an atom of foundation for I the reports of the purchase by Great ing Britain strip of of Delacroa territory Bay and an adjoin I |