BRITISH AND FOREIGN PACE

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 10

BRITISH AND FOREIGN PACE

CURRENT TOPICS.

Unionist Unity. — Mr. .Balfour, speak: mgat ' Glasgow, -said; .. "I.■.■-should not be"- dealing-'faithfully and honestly with you -if - I did not say that I -still seo something-to be desired,lll,tho,atti-, tude of. thoso. who call,■ thomselves Union: ists, and who have, in their charge the vast interests which Unionism involves, uiteicsts touching the very, essenco of .the.Empire of which we are citizens.- , I . seo. ,a. growing agreement-among. the : moderato .members; of tho party,-!• sec a vast'and'solid body of opinion. ready and prepared to uoik together to bring us-back to the placo which we, ought, to occupy in>,tho councils- of ,tho country.' I seo on. tho ono wing and- on the other a relatively small;- but certainly not unimportant, section of Unionist opinion which find 9 a. difficulty .in wqrking .with tho main body of which they are members. May. ■I say to: them, Without attempting to force any man's'conscience, or- to require of any man a profession of belief . which ho docs not share, that 1 think they would find it easier to co-operate m that common action, without , which ,no party ? can do tho least good, if they . would, look, each of,, thorn,moro to tho great body of opinion, and bo less .occupicd in looking suspiciously and ■ angrilyJ:at ijiacb' othciv .Lain'sure; 'tho '.great : body of tho :party is clear, .moderate, sound,, .resolute'' in .carrying.out ' their, policy. of fiscal , reform. • It .will never carry., it. out,, it will, fefrcariying- - it will never -.obtain the confidence, of. tllo country to. carry it. out, unless these; two. ex-\ tremo I ''; sections,. of $ho' 4 party;.'will; coilsenj;. .to',", work r with the great , central. body,-;:of. opinion."

.- r -' .v";V -"v • What Does Mid-Devon MeanV-Captain . : .-Uorrison-Bbll,'. 'the': Gdnseryative, and Tariff;, Befdrmer'j'A'Was returned;;to': Parliament'',fqr;,; J,:. ilid-Devon on January 18 ■ by, 5191 ' votes i. .. •'■■■' against the 4632 'recorded? for' tho Liberal' Vf . iandidate; Mr. C.,:%den -Buxtori. Compared Ifith the figures at '..the Gferieral Election, the " ' return'-: showsan; increase .--iii :-; Cqnseryative. yotes 'ofi 1395,7.nnd ■.a. decreasc-'in illiberal ■ votes 0f.;447. : :"It Avas. a safe;Liberril :se'at, . .which ;resisted : :;tho.igi'eat'. wave.: of -.'political . Unionists ' tho- huge- .' majority they enjoyed-in: the :last v Parlia-. toent.'i.Vln. these'. Jsays' "The - Times,V..,»tho r return'of : : .tho. "Unionist ■ candi-. I' date . at'-.'ah :'electiori.nn ' which . tho-'greatest : ; ' prominence'was -given to. Tariff'.Reform; is; undoubtedly a ; bitter pill for the Libejal v ;y. Government." It is also; a < matter ;for : legiti-' ' mate,; but not uiilm-iitedj .satisfactioii. to tho. • " Unionists.''-'Wo'^-ihave consistently-' mainfciiiled 'that ifc'is unwisoito.attach extreme : • importance, to isolated •byrelections',.' however; - gratifying-thoy: may "be/' oil' account of, the 'ri':^great;»partv'pla^d«by'';lbcil: ;i fborisiderations'; which: defy' calculation. In' this-, case, .for - esamplo ) ' ; it.lias : :to,be;remombered''that' Cap-- ; vtop6padr;figiiro - i« «'• VV','..wen.j I knbwhl : :- : the ;j; G6verUmentV.li'a's l :r;cc'cive'd, sinee: it :: ca,nie; : jnto offico. -' It is ;'a'great : '-netory; ; ;wliieh '-will • v ao :(mi!lph!.;toi eJihnurten;'a t : .triumph will i bring on-, > jouragemqiit'' tqj.nthe r r <TarifF;t •. the successful, candidate,.. Captain .Morrison-, ? 'Bellj l was a their-'faith. - Stand-' ir.'- .v-ngffairly and ! squar,elyjpn ,the.Tariff ,Rcforin,- . ; platform; he tho undiluted gospel, . if Mr. Chamberlain." , , , t In Praise:of'Science.—Mr. R;: B.• Haldano,' : Ihe .President of'the; British Science Guild,' : . ipoke m high praise'of" the..scientific' spirit . »t the:socond 'annual meeting of-the Guild,' i.. held /at: the-London rMansion " House:. - :In. > ~these days, he said, science was becoming: :- more' and more -of moment in' the.'Tace .be- ... tween nations. . ..No .'industrial:'"community ' y. • could:retam its;-placo .unlessi it'hadi gotnthe ' j •. bighestiisciencoiat' lts.disposal.HJf 'he'.'lwere: ' to adopt. a inotto .for' that Guild, it-would be . ■•.-j. tho'.jnotto .of- a 'Germanv'.tradoiiassociatiorij- ■ , which •is 'tho .golden. guiding ; .' star,-of practicewithout 4 science there can'; ; be : only a-blind groping about in .the region ; of ' .'Undefined '.possibilities:^-''ii The'''ch'ango thatihad come:'over things}in'i'theiast-fifty ' -. or' Sixty years ." was ': -Bcieuce'no. one could organise-. his'Vbnslnestf ;-' i,withbut''scieiice. jio nation'- could'-keep'' its'- .. . place in tho van. - Thereford' r ;he ' : said ; ' that'; onoi.of- the" great •rcsponsib.ilities.'.'of' ■a' na-; ■ ■ tion was 1 not only to ];eep her ;: knoivledge in :• the: mmds of > a few individiials 'abreast of 1 v the 'age;" not only ;<to produco her ■ Kelvins ;.;; : : and, hpr;D!irwins,.:but to 'seo that- her' 'science . was.' disseminatcd|"'' , and - that:'it--.'had;i entered' • the minds and actuated tho' cndeaVours .of ■' ■her, ; -captains-|Of' industry generally. : .That v.- was,;the . creed-,'oft, that Guild/ and.- that-.wns; ■' ; the. : ; lesson.;which;':they;-.had..como,'tbgeth6r ;to'. Bndeayour to teach.V Punjab's New Covcrnor.—S'ir ."Louis '"\Yil- ' : liam.'Dano,: K.C.I.E.j succeeds 1 Sir Denzil Ibbotson,'K.C.S.l., as Lieutenant-. ,:. Governor of fthe Punjab,, -was-fappointed'!to, : the Indian-Civil Service after exiiminatibh in i1874/and went "His- ■ r first post,": says '•',The-Tijnes;";'.!Was, tliit 'bf" SAssistant : :\Commissibner;' i iir ' /| tliO'' s ,;Punjab/' 'After;',serying';iii-"y'a'rious' 'capacities;-'he was . . made • Chief .Secretary. ;to - the Government ;of .. .tho : Punjab- in December, IS9B, .and was appointed;.Residenfc in' Kashmir 'in'-Novem'-' . ber, il901:' - Since':the spring. -'of "1903 hp-has 'i occupied'tho-important and'responsible post, of Foreigri'Secretary to'.tho' GovenimehV ,: bf' .- India! V' 'Krom''October, 1904/ to ' April/''l9os,'' he was' employed, oil'a 'special-mission to^tlie Ameer of Afghanistan at Kabul- where; 1 lie -. was \ successful in inducing the new. Ameer . i Habibullali 'to''.renew ' the ; agreement' which' ■i--';;; .'had .subsisted;. so\' ; 'iong ,betwecij'' his 'predecessor. and.'the Brifcisli ,Government. l .■ Tlie- - :■■■■ Dane - Treaty,,;) .which was: ,'signed->.'on 'March : 21 ,-,wasi described by' Lord Laiisdowne in the -'. ■ Hoiisb' of-; Lords oil 'Juno 2, 1905/ as. 'a miiclv. . contract 'thanv any 'which • previous Ameers' have signed.'" It -was for his successful •conduct of this •mission'-*- that : ho-received'the 1v.C.1.E. in .May; ,1905'.",' Scepticism About Marc.—"ln 1877:.Schia- , parelli;fbund.'a"lot'''of T>eculiar; markings 'on: ithe"surface; : pf' tho' planet. Miirs, ' which, he' ' I , called- 'canali.' . Tho word did . not ' meiih canals, but channels or long' hollows. ' , It , ' .. was,' however,' . seized , upon ' by ;a", sensation-;. • -jioving ; 'Fi^s':and'^'^lible'publiopmid-th'eM, 'canals' were at "oneo put- down as the 'wbrk ■ ■■; .V.of:beings:'something like. ourselves.' Schia- ,. .. 'parelli 1 arid;' Lowell" were;thp^pnly' ob'servprs, ;' who-had-seen;'br' : believed''"they had, : 'doubling'".'of ' f the canals,' but," ,'Sir , David: Gill;'at this-Royal'lnstitution, "I'he- . lieve that doubling is purely the result',pf . - that double image 'produced wlien'- you; 'try - to see more than you- can see—in other 1 . yords; eye-strain. ,;,I', havo never made a '■; special study of tho" surface of liars, nor havp- I occupied a' station spooially favour-' able;''such as Lowell and Schiaparolli have; but, to be visible at all..with''a'-telescope'of .' :. tlio 'power- 'of'that '.used .'by' Mr.. Lowell,' an ' object' iuust. be : at; least twenty miles, in 'dia-; ,neter. I>owell ;thinks he has,'proved, that, llarsJ has no hills or mountains,. or how . , wuld canals twenty- milos broad and many, many miles:long bo-cut? : :That.;is no proof, because -the ;highest mountain 'is probably less- than twenty miles high, and therefore ■ eould not be'.perceived, r am'prepared to ; that ho has seen somet'hirig like it, : but'l-seo nothing'even resembling ovidenco of human work. ' 1 do'not deny' the possibilitv of tho existence of spm>3 kind of ani- ,. rial' very differont from oursolves,'but I see 10 proof of the work of sentient beings on Jie . oiformous- scale •■' that has been talked ibout."

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The English Language.—Wo shall not, wo trust, 'be accused- of'"'undervaluing' 'other studios- if wb '"say that wo- wish especially well to the youngest of the Societies which lias.just- been deliberating—namely, the English Association; for' a body which seeks to win'.diie recognition ''for''our' native tongue as an- essential element'm the national educa--tion is performing ¥■ work'of ;tho very highest •necessity. It is, nothing less than ridiculous that,' English should -not be the .first'; subject "iil . tlje K-qiirriculuin"-:of"■ every school in the 'Empire.''; In'' most of , our' colonies- it already 'has such a place, but at Homo it is only 'too. evident that youngsters can have :schools 'of:.higlr: reputation ;with -th'o<" smallest ; smattering' of'/English.: -.effho very best typo of' ' schoolboy coihpetcs'.forispholarships at Trinity'College,■■■■■'Cambridge,,'^yet: the ' Master - of Trinity says that 'ai.c'onsideriiblo minority of them seom to have npjiotiou of how to write 'their own language.; \\(qrse;than that) many, do .'not' acquiro tho .knowledge at the TJnivorsity. Certainly most- London; editors-are familiar with r bad .or slovenly.'English- written' 1 by' geiUlemen nvho'-havo taken ■ excellent degcfios;-;-'audt.are.,<oven■ reckoned experts..in' educational :: science.K'Which, ; is rather amus-ingn-.w.hem.iorife -comes to think.- of. it.—'-'The Guardian."-ri... :

Unemployment.—t)r. . Maonamara, ■ speaking "at "Bermondscy, I 'dealt: at considerable 'length ..with tfrft; question ,of "unemployment frankly 'admitted, sovereign 'remedy-'-h§. "suggested', that' 'th^'S.m.iiiPJH^ldih'gS^e.tv,the, promised Housing 'Bill, the'injdusjbrialisathe training of ? b(^tf , : .'the,; 'model,; of , the ■North .Gerpiaii 'jri'de" School, -.a diminution: in itfarried ,-.women, .whose; 'hustaVaS"jthem . and. of. juveniles, [arid a" ; our,present. method of :trcat-. Casual, ; : so' as to give', a regeneration,^,,would tend to the removal, of, tbo causes .-which produced' 'urieinployriierit. - He also 'referred. :to the:'qiie'stiori:bf th'd'.equalisation of. rates, and' siii'd that""a considerable • period of , the Session p{.:1909. woali'-bo".'placed at the.disposal of.London'.'-.:;;;, . - • ;

: Mental -DlsoasDSi Responsible for Tramps.— •Dr. vB. fLv Reitman considers that in the 'groat body • of ! tramps "fully. '50 per cent:'' are the-victims: of-insanity in ono form or an-other.'>;-These'-forms' of..- ■'especial-' ly 'common in p'orsons'afflicted with;.hysteria, epilepsy, paranoia; .' and other' forms of uer,.vous --disease. ' -Instead, of having fits of. Epilepsy, imaginary pains of hysteria, or the .delusion : of beiug'''a';'Napblebn'in paranoia, ; the : ;iti'ne'r[infcS'agrant';.has .".fugues" ' (flights). : ' .The. ■ most common form of "fugue'' is amIbulatory . (walkjng),, automatism. .. In, this .condition'ithe' patient is ' carried "away; by' an irresistible; impulse:. -.Hp. leaves his .-home and make? an 'oscursion'or journey justified by -no. reasonable' "motiyei Tho,. attack,..enc}ed, the subject,.finds.; himself}von'r'an: unknown; road ,or..'til 'a. strange town ,and ;is unable. to: ox.plaijij.hisVflight; froni .homo and friends.. Hp atl., ■tackyprovbkes'a. iiew ,escapade, and:,the.*thing--1 becomesV chronic;>)VSpmo:;iof . these,. cases of iambulatpry;:'autbraatism'^"travel. .as, geiitlpmen; (in ;first^clas'sristyle;; : J wandering 'vag-•jMts.-ikV.;PropßoVimtiMnt' would probably' effect' a,:pgrmjin.o'it .cure.v ;

: A Lead- froni announcement '^lutl'the'r^fipail^ei l Government, have reduced 1 'their' -prospective•■' Jiiaval4 jmd ' " military :cs- . sterling' owing >ip; the" Wbtl!)n',pr'¥h6' tfatibnaP'finarices is ,an , 'pßo§ of Vjyji "the' ''Daily ■Nows." v ''It is an example, which' ought,'not 1 to; ; fail v tb' iriipress l the Western 'jivorld.:' Ja pan lias'soon'-- learifed'.'something -as 'to . the' price; of 'Imperialism/.-and'the'taxation of ,thepeo-' -.pie ■ since-?the-'"Russo j Japaiiese' war has' 'in-: creased vtoWan /c'no'rnibusr 'exterit. '' That .' was .inevitable;-:-■- AVhat -is rehiarkablo•: is', that a, -halt- BhouldCbe'called in response to' -.the' admonitipris of common sense.";'-

;The Cerman . Clerk.—"Dr. ,o'Comior lee-: turod.before,a .society of German clerks an. London; on . ; his A fayourite_;.topic , Esperanto,'' V^M6msf!b;'6?zette H ". ..-.t'f.'Thiere: 'were;.about f threp-huhdred ;commorcial'clerks, 'present—sliarp; . shrewd;; intellectual .fellows, iWitli r "a 11 ,'.the : grit '.of, the;, men.- who comb - from.thpi';Eatherland.:.;M,'When: .the:ile'ctiirp:. was •finished, 'the: -, chairman,.'. invited. comments.. 'About ;:twenty . members ,of 'the audience' ■spoke..:-Said everyoneiof.' them .in- effect; 'We .;will',hay.O)n6thmg-,tA'.do :with this thing. . Get 'Esperanto-lnto-,.London;, get. your clerks' tb 'learnViti and our; occupatibn will be gone I'."

" Continental: Doctrines.—A- large section of "the' working class;>'-misled by glib orators of . their :'mvn-:.ranlr,-. and» beguiled ! by' designing politicians.; of superior education/ 'have', for some of-.the-niore poisonous i'subyersive Continental .'.doctrines. Presently; '.the:" dbse'.uvill begin 'to, disagree •withiuthem—perhaps 'rather . ' 'violently—and •. then.', thb: .process'- oft-rccovery - will •' begin/artisans and labourers' of' Great' Britain ithere.. : is .ja'-S.vast',-number 'of' I 'sensible; :'and ,■shrewd .menvvwhoj"!'whether Conservative .or -Liberal/Jcnow: that" a" new .'heaven'and'a 'new/earthV'cannoV'bfc created in a- day—a' year—or-:even in septennatel' ■Presently, they; 'will -'.mtfke' their voices' heard over: tho > din 1 of-ffraliKbiis demagogues, ' and ■the' great body'- of -'thb''voter's' return to their -old 'faith;. : iii <gradual- 1 but ; ever. progressive rreform;' Radical "Wire-pullers' may think tliey are- doing-a'-'gopd'-'styokP: of business xby flattering; -and > paiicleriug- 'to tho ,{proletariat: Tltey .iwillj j okpepieflco'' a rough awakening ' wlie'n: theyrafti' ifskefl"tb"show hoiv thby have ;used :'thp''. power ywhich ' they ' liave'' obtained «byjfalse^pretencek';-''-:'- 1 ' '

;; Birth oHhO'Dram'a,^peakingirecently at 1 .University §s>Ujßg£bn -the Groek Theatre;aUiVtbe'':dovelopment;vp{ drama, 'Professor .:the' theatre; in Greece 'w\j i s',quit9: v ii,-,different thing from, the, ,Wiealfcrjci- theatro,in the early, times'was'a'.religms,institution'.established by; thb,. i ,a public''duty to. attend . it.,' such 1 , as they were;;.were performed.on' a huge scalo in the opbri,''iir;'';"arid*' wire!lof {a very ■ conventional ty|)6:":Th^r6[,;jy.prp,,.different , theories as ■ to liow;'wjierbj > .^nd.;'when J ,these prformaiices de'velo'ped. into;tliat extraordinary:literary..pro- . . The birth, acto';somea.ut'hprities, of-..the drama Tvas^counected.;with, ..Sparta, -but eventually it :tbolv'a.'hew!developmDnt in Athens, from 1 where,'thpj.'rcal"history, of, the .present day ,cirama ; otnana. ci,., (1