Show HAS HE LOST US HEAD British are Amazed at Utterances Utter-ances of Salisbury t RESURRECTS IRISH HATCHET That Too When Queen and Every Member of the Premiers Own Cabinet Cabi-net has Been at Such Particular Pains to Bury itHis Speech Lacked All Formalities and Veiled Allusions to Which the English Are Accustomed Salisbury is More Philosopher than Statesman London May 12 Copyright 1900 the PresL0 Salisbury addressed Associated PresBLord Salsbur IAssocaterl Primrose dressed the members of the league dr on Wednesday but the drift of his meaning has not not yel filtered Into thc British minds The remarkable utterances ut-terances DrJsh the Premier on that occasion ternces continue to form almost the sole topic of conversation though editorial writers quickly gave up the attempt to analyze for the benefit of tho public the numerous numer-ous features of the speech and were wellnigh staggered Into silence by its welnigh unexpectedness and the multiplicity i baffling unexpecteness plicity baflng the Issues It contained I was delivered when the nation expected exactly the opposite kind l of remarks I To Implore his countrymen to awake to constantly menacing their I tho perils ty menacIng the great enjplrc and its existence at very moment when f long period o pa tlent waiting had been replaced by jubi successful lation over Lord Robertas advance was an expedient S utterly I beret of the first principles of politics especially considering tho approach of especalY the elections that some of Lord Salis supporters believe ho was burys own supprters belevc almost off his head when he spoke PULLED DOWN HIS FABRIC Not content with this he pulled down every pretty fabric that had been built around the Queens visit to Ireland calmly comparing the present efforts to attain home rule to Boer conspiracies 0 and hostility And this after the Queen and every leading member of Lord Sal isburys own Cabinet and party had been at particular pains to bury the Irish hatchet Moreover the whole tone of the speech lacked all those formalities formali-ties reticences and veiled allusions to which tho linglSsh people have been accustomed since the days of Pitt and Palmerston Lord Salisbury hitherto had religiously followed such precedents prece-dents but on Wednesday he spoke to tho public as ho might to an intimate friend after dinner HIS SENSATIONAL UTTERANCE So amazing and fo Interesting has hen Lord Salisbury himself as revealed I re-vealed this week that the board and from the standpoint of other nations by far most Importantsensational feature fea-ture of the speech hns passed almost unnoticed Were the Premier of any olhor European state to get up in these times of wars and rumors of war and urge tho people of an eminently commercial com-mercial race to accustom themselves toe L to-e use of firearms and to establish rile clubs in every city village and hamlet there would run through Europe such a shiver of fright and such vivid anticipation antici-pation of hostile Intention and devastating f devasta-ting conflict that market prices would drop by decades and mobilization plans would bo at the linger tip of every War Minister I IS A PHILOSOPHER i That this has not occurred appears to be due to tho generally recognized fact that Salisbury Is more a philosopher than a statesmen and that when he i pessimistically painted the hostilities toward England the world over he was speaking purely In tie abstract without with-out harboring In his mind ono cioncrcto I instance whereby that hostility might become an Immediate menace I A curious Incident connected with the 1 parade of the Ladysmlth naval brigade I of the British cruiser Powerful was that the decorating authorities almost pmolhor tho officers of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal the Canadian High Commissioner with the Stars and Stripes while on the outside of the United States embassy on the same street thei was no sign of an American Ameri-can Jag Lord Strathcona pointed out tho unsultablllty of tho predominance of the Stars and Stripes and the number num-ber of those emblems was reduced |