New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-03-01
THE STATE OF ENGLAND.
British Indy Of the Me-
trepsiis-so ciaiism-Ehect Of Railroads
Observation-Disclosures of the Revolution
PhiInnthropy-Prospec

LONDON, Feb. :, 1919.
la going about the country, come everywhere
IN contact with some of the best minds, and am
delighted and astonished to ind how spiritually
wealthy England is in individual men. have
been in no town where there are not several hne
metropolitan fellows who redeem the whole place |
aud atmosphere from pettiness and proverbial
scandal mougerng. Upon the whole each little
place sits as sstisfedly in it's own saddle as II 1t
were scaplta city Derby for instance thinks that the
clocks of England ought TO be regulated by the big
clock at the Derby Railway station and that the impo
sition of London time 10 impertinence, and so OF
other dots the map Each has beating heart and
whether II circulstes china OF wooden, or cotton or
hardware expects the United Kingdom to take OIL It's
hat to 1t on that particular, and receive the blessing
without a smile. There IL indeed jealousy OF the
Metropolis everywhere and a feeling that sinseness
and sincerity. and wages for fair work belong mainly
the PROVINCES and that London 10 only the accidental
crosswsy tina, leads from country town 10 country
town. and In which many OF the population stay dis
tractediy too long gazing at all the eads Of the roads
there represented a. though they something by
themselves though In short London was separate
spiritual capital and not simply the largest essvsnsers
Of the moving Kingdom. This jealousy lies a, the root
Of many Of the virtues and vices of the country No
doubt Il springs out OF seresnce and serves TO esoo
rate particular industries high pitch pursuing the
several objects of trade aud manufacture with stern
sinsleness but then ignores the light OF the Laws
which corporate aud central and proudly breaches
nonnterference where alas interference Is only toe
much needed There appears. however, to be no hell
for IL 90 rock built 10 the individuslsm Of people snC
places and II would seem though Government herr
were chiefly useful threa, that good shall be done BY
the state which causes the people To react sud think
and finally to conclude 10 do IL for themseves-les'
should be done for them. This part of the history
our educational and sanitary movements the rod OF h'
schoolmaster, and the besom Of tho bdie were nc
sooner seen coming down from London with ORDER
to correct and cleanse than 10 exsemporsneous school
masters and scsvengers started out of the rustic earth
and were ouite available. both to light the aovernmen
smissares and TO whip up and wash the dock. TAer'
IT, Il 10 true middle class In smity with the centrs
power but at presen, 1, 10 feeble sud very limited II 10
operations
This middle class contains the germs Of socis
movement there 10 in the country. Not but whs
that the non interference men are also becoming 90
cssi but then 1t 10 only in 80 far as socialism grow
ike plant out of private counting houses and purses
and from the very beginning pays i,s way. They
would therefore have IL rise gradually through all II
sages from ZoSphy,ic 10 human proportions, and wo1i
allow no general light-no fsth-to anticipate the pro
grsss and shorten the way. This Is the old League
party-the Eeonomists-,he Traders who have, for tn
moot part themselves risen from the ranks BY painfully
email s,ages arst and Drumming with morality sn'
r,vsrsius after supper to their fret romantic days
se,fdenisi-the frst and only dsys-,hey proclaim tina
all man. and nations like men, may do whs, they hsv
done II 10 q commanding and trenehans party, this
and the unsuccessful menihe majority that Is to ga
find Il impossible to dispossess H. These people Ar
the present strength OF England, ss they have show
bv being where they are. The history OF the e0ur
try win be their history for some years to come The
ar, the European commerce militant
The Socialist movement 10 much thought oil here
. part of commerce-as a means TO the better eeone
INV and Instrumentation OF human machines hs
thought that the Red Republicans would have fsn'en
ed nv dear old country out OF her ws-iast she wou
have cast over in her mind al the means oil ois
association and tried 10 cut up her small vermi
cular groups and charities by winding them round IL
bladed knife of sects and individuates ou
Il 10 nos the case She not less than France sn'
Germany that there 10 Society to come but TIE
che believes IL 10 to grow, while they think It 10 To D
made. Which 10 the quicker process God knows Ger
tsiniy everything of human possession Is an invention
at hrss-ws possess IL more deeply the more We invsn
il; certainly, however, Inventions grow. Animal ans
vegstabls-ye presuppose each other The inside o
everything 10 Code garden-,be ou:sde of IL 10 Man
pllase. England 10 the primsvai Parsdiss gone Il