New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-27

in spite OF pocket losses that come nome 10 al,
as We in England believe, folly, - u az '. .,
subne one full Of sefsacrifce, illustratN ; VI 49,,
no,nlity in the national heart The Australian uIss
and Western farmers in America are setung s'"
~ IN tbe world OF self-sacr1ce for national ople"'
hundreds and thousands Of rough men are content " ~
they and their famies-upon less imam 'hoy ""e"
otherwse enjoy in order that the CONDITION VI INC
OF their countrymen may continue raised aooNe
their brother toilers in Old England IheH ihah"o.ie
are beginning now TO stand alone but hither'o M"o
protection the Americans would have had no ci'oS w
saports Nv picturng TO ourselves England depehuenC
unon the CITY OF London upon Liverpool ana nun anu
Bristol We shall see the necessity the western men ~"
under of setting of Pittsburgh hgainS' NV -
49, ,.,a,,bia In short, the tendency, according W
a. wastern farmers, Of free trade, I'D INC e"i'
'"V " -'atence, is to promote unlyers"i
ton. to destroy local ''i' 'iu lo 80 .nasror, 20
create to 80 tax the farmer with 80 go nnr con.
distant markets that he must grow ,,,i,h rl,o..
tiuuouslv and cannot but exhaust his SOIL WIN
90 blatant the richest forest lands are not worm clearing
and settlement sweeps over the country occupying 'no
poorer lands and then abandoning them once lnoio.'
Time after time have heard the western lalm0i' "
imaginary pictures Of the state Of America II Tree "uo
should gain the day, and ask OF what AVIAN 10 " say
that free trade and circulation Of people are ron
able to the pocket II they destroy the national existence
of America what good to point out the gain OF weight
10 their purses in the force OF the destruction OF their
religion their anguage, and their Saxon instltutonsf
He is quite capable of seeing that the Free Trade
policy of Great Britain is more selfish than the ITO
tective policy of America: and that wheh IL Saits
her she ignores her principles with unsurpassed cool
ness CAS- far says Mr. Dixie p" as we IN our lsiahu
are 80 manifesty to the pocket interest
of almost all of u.s. and at the same time on account
Of fine minuteness of our territory little dangerous
politically that for Great Britain there can be no
danger of o deliberate relapse into protection, al
though we have but little right to talk about free
Trade so long as continue our enormouss subsidies
10 the Cunard ners' And he concludes TINS singular
cbapter with remark which is just reDuKe 10 inc
clamors of the American Free Traders one thing
at least is clear that even if the opinions nave re-
corded be as ridiculous when applied to Australia OF
America as they would be when applied to England,
they are not supported by selfish clique but rest
upon the generosity and self-sacrilce OF majority
of the population"
It'll hardly fair to Mr. Dixie to deal so exclusively
as we have done with the sober side of his book.
Thoughtful and sensible as he almost always Is, ana
discussing not few grave questions with an ntelIi-
gent acuteness, he seasons all this with enchanting
descriptions of adventure, of strange people and
places and abounds in illustration and anecdote.
Here is a New-Zeaand story which has q grave
humOr Of its own
1--WE were introduced TO Tamiana Is Ranparaha, chief
OF the Ngaoa branch OF the Ngatrankawa and son OF
the great cannba chief OF the name who murdered
Capt Wakefield. Old Ranparaha IL who hired an
English ship carry him and his nation 70 the South
Island where they several tribes. boiling the Chiefs
by the captains consent I'm the ships coppers aud sailing
down for future use the common people When the cap
TAIN on return port claimed his price, Ranparaha told
him TO 90 about his business he should be sated TOO
The captain the hint but he did not escape for long
hx fhe Gan dNfph
Hawaii"
Most readers we suspect, regard set descriptions
as bore and they certainly when put in as pad
ding A traveller like Sir Samuel Baker knows how
10 make even landscapes entertaining and Mr. Duke
has much of his viyacity and real liking for color
and high lights And he is always briei, so that we
might quote numbers of passages-One or two Oren-
tai scenes must suffice. The first is Ceylon:
once seated Ia the piazza Of the Oriental Companys
Hotel the best managed N the East, had before me
curious scene Along the streets were pouring silent
crowds Of tall and graceful girls as the fret glance
supposed wearing white petcoats and bodces their hair
carried OF the face with decorated hoop and caught at
the back by a high tortoise-she comb. As they drew
near mustaohes began show aud that they we're
men, while walking with them were women mixed 70 the
waist combess aud far more rough and manly than
their husbands Peeoat and ehgnon are male institu-
tons In Ceylon and time after time had TO look twice
before could fix the persons My rule at last be-
came 10 set down everybody that was womany as man.
and everybody that manly as a woman"
| Benares has been described so often that il is a
good standard Of comparison. Familiar as il 49, Mr.
bikes account has still air of originality, and Is
impressive 10 the imagination
You walk, preceded by your guide, who warns the
people that they may stand aside and not be denied by
your touch that the real secret Of the apparent re-
spect paid TO you In Bcnares but the sacred
numerousand 80 obstinate That you cannot avoid
times osting them. The in the passages Is the
most Indian In India The gaudy dresses OF the Hudoo
princes spending n week in publication at the holy
place the escoed Of the shops and houses, the
deafening beating OF the tomtoms and, above all, the
smoke and slckening smell from tho burning ghauts'
that meet YOU mingled with sweeer smell OK burning
Spices as you work your way through the vast crowds OF
pilgrims who pouring mp from the rivers bank-all
alike are strange 10 the English traveller, and Ill his
mind with that understandable awe which everywhere ac-
companies the sight Of and ceremonies that we do
not understand When you on the Ganges bank
itself the scene wilder sta river front OF some three
miles faced with lofty ghauts flights OF river stairs
over which rise pile above pile, In sublime confusion
lofty palaces with ore windows hanging she sacred
stream Obseryator1es with giant ndlals gilt d0mes
golden the story runs), and silver minarets. On the
the ghauts rows of fires each with smoldering body
on the river boat loads Of pilgrims and fakeers praying
while they noat under the houses, lines OF PROSTATE
bodes-those OF the sckbrought to the sacred Ganges
to de-or say Government spies to be murdered by
snnocation with sacred mud; while prowllng about are
| the woflike fanatics who feed on putrid flesh. The
whole is M by siekly tfuly glaring through the
smoke while the Ganges stream is half obseured by the
| river fog aud reck OF the hot earth
! We take II for granted that Mr. Dixie has made up
his mind 10 run the gauntlet of what wo may call the
! i-Libera press of England His views of American
politics are far too just be received by Tory jour
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