. Review of reviews and world's work. LORD SALISBURY, WHO ENTERS ON A NEW PERIOD ASPRIME MINISTER. and united opposition, with an acknowledgedleader and a definite policy of its own. The greatarmy in South Africa—the largest ever sent sofar away from home by any European countrvin modern times—was still encamped on hostilesoil, not with great battles to fight, it is true,but with an irritating and difficult state of guer-rilla warfare to contend with. This was not themoment for changing parties, nor was it a rea-sonable time for holding an election. The warcannot now be undone, needless and ba
. Review of reviews and world's work. LORD SALISBURY, WHO ENTERS ON A NEW PERIOD ASPRIME MINISTER. and united opposition, with an acknowledgedleader and a definite policy of its own. The greatarmy in South Africa—the largest ever sent sofar away from home by any European countrvin modern times—was still encamped on hostilesoil, not with great battles to fight, it is true,but with an irritating and difficult state of guer-rilla warfare to contend with. This was not themoment for changing parties, nor was it a rea-sonable time for holding an election. The warcannot now be undone, needless and bad thoughit was ; and the annexation of the Boer republicscould not be reconsidered without producing aconvulsion throughout the British empire. Itwas indeed inevitable, when Kriiger issued hisultimatum and made his appeal to arms, thatBritish supremacy should be completely estab-lished in the Transvaal. As we have maintainedfrom the beginning, there was nothing m the THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD, 527. KT. HON. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR. (Conservative leader in House ofCommons.) RT. HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. (Colonial Secretary.) SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNEKMAN. (Liberal leader in Houseof Commons.) practical alternatives that lay before Mr. Kriigerand his colleagues at Pretoria that in the leastjustified war. So long as the contest was simplya diplomatic one, the people in England who sym-pathized with Mr. Kriiger as against Mr. JosephChamberlains diplomatic methods were manyand influential. The only hope for the Boerslay in appeals to English public opinion. Thischance was forfeited when resort was made toforce. We do not, of course, justify the Eng-lish Government in refusing arbitration ; butthe Boer ultimatum and invasion of Natal leftEngland with nothing else to do than when a war comes, no matter what pro-voked it, any nation worthy to exist will fight ashard as it can. The English were at once com-mitted irretrievably to the permanent reductionof the Transvaal and the Orange
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