Show lORD ROSBERY NOW THE COMMANDING FIGURE IN BRITISH POLITICS London ton o N tf The increasing nS Ige Quency ot or L Lord rai nI Jit s ys rys public ut utterances In no way ray decreases the thrill of admiration and an l nation Jn which follows on each occasion The strange mingling of common sense sentiment surpassing rhetoric and homely phrases the j of oC Great Britain to such suh an extent that the former premier may well be said to have gained more more power since he has been out of power than he ever did before His speech at Glasgow on the occasion on of his in as lord rector of the Glasgow university causes the other events of the week to sink into insignificance Yet the underlying note of that won wonderful wonderful wonderful monograph of the British empire was wan one of warning as the Daily Dally Tel Te graph appropriately describes de it as fol follows follows follows lows N w that two tro nations at least the United States and Germany are so SQ closely close at our back that their shadow fails faite ui rn t front of us and that they the are arc archi in hi a r T tire Jre re able condition condit n than ourselves we have no doubt England has bas a re reserve reserve reserve serve pace Nice which our competitors orS scarcely suspect Rut But we ve are near the j time when we will have to put forth the tile best bent beato of our speed d and stretch every fibre e I j It is Lord counteraction of those features which his words worda I so deeply weighed by politicians and i business men in Great Britain With I skill he j presents re both the weakness and strength of lOr imperialism A correspondent describing de Lord j I speech at Glasgow says I j Ills His aloofness from the crowd and I i unfathomed loneliness were in to striking 1 contrast to that passionate e interest in Ii the public business of the nation j Yet with all alt this adulation bestowed I j regardless of party lines it seems un likely that the former liberal premier I will emerge Demerge from his political retire retirement retirement I ment at any an rate at present His great i antagonist Lord Salisbury Sall Ury has decided 1 quite unexpectedly to call an early ses sea session sion of parliament and has consented i to accept a salary of for fulfill log inS his bis duties as premier though nomi nally he be receives a recompense for so S doing for fOI the lord of privy seat seal sea I ments beats which were abolished in 1884 are arc his Lord Salisbury personally was Avas not anxious to receive any pay but it was thought to be a bad b d precedent Dr dent for a cabinet minister to work ork for nothing i so go the salary of lord of the privy pr 3 seal was revived and is now lila Ids I |