New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-02
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
BRITISH TOPICS.

SrRIKE-RIOrOUS LOYhISTS-AsSNLr ON
REPUBLIC NN-PROGRESS OF PROHIBITION
PRINCIPLES.
trsoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LoNpoN. Dee. 16-With all the cards in their
hands the elcraph clerks, who struck last week have
deliberately thrown their game away TRey hao re-"
grievance and the Of getting redressed' IN
deed the absolute certainty that the Department must
Give I'm il the strike became general, makes u
difficult TO understand the want VI courge
tne clerks have shown. Tbey know perfectly
well that with nearly every skilled operator In England
AMI a good many unskillcd, the tclcgrophs are very
short handed. II half their number had struck anu nu
held out for a week. they must have brought Mr. Scuva-
more TO their terms. The public would not have pt-
mitted that functionary shut mp telegraph offices in
order TO INDULGE his taste for despouc control over his
"Post-OAicc niggcrs" But that nickname has done
II, work Something OF the submissive temper oil the
slave seems 60 passed into the spirit OF men VINO
have borne Mr. ScudamOre's yoke SO long lon nave
only 10 road the pOmpous manllestOes OF lhs ou 10
see what the relations are between him and hi' Snoof
dpates There is the crack OF the plantation whip IN
every sentence.
II MIR scudamore's view of the relations between
PoOnce Telegraph clerks and the Government Is to he
accepted they have unconscous lost rights which all
other EncIlshmcn possess. The language held to them
is such as hard-tcmpered Judge might use to con-
vctcd criminal Their conduct is "A grave ohense'
which Mr. seudamore threatens to "vist With very So
we're punishment" Those who did not before certain
OaV ETct TOT tnclI mist oi'HO IL "'''
The painful duty OF the Department TO dismiss The
gravity a. their cense hardly uc exaggerated They
have endcavored TO promote di-atrcton. 1hey are
"guty" but II they will humiliatc themselves and
IA scy declare that they regret then acts he VIII take
"mercifu view in the case of those who can piead
''prcvious good character" Nothing Coud be more IN
the Old Bailey style.
What then is the oGense of the man whom Mr. Scudi-
more hcctors and buies in this fashion, They formed
OF joined Telegrophic Association and when some OF
its Ofcnators been suspended for that oense 800
Others struck The strike is crime but the greater
wcedness lies in daring to form league to obtain from
MI Sculauorc the fuihllment Of promises made two
years ago Anybody who enters the PostOhicc Tele-
graph Service hereafter has fair warning He puts HIM
self completely at Mr. Scudamorcs mercy. There has
been good deal of criticism, am glad to say, in the
papers on this mans wanton arrogance, hut they are
divided on the point whether civil servant can be any
thing but serL or retains any capacity for seiipotec-
uon.
what the English public will put mp with from their
paid official servants of the SCudamOre Kind Is amazing
1t week or more since Mr. scudamorc stopped tcle-
graphic message sent TO The Daiy NcrS by its Man
chester correspondent The Dgj'g NcrS promptly pro-
tested. Not one daily paper in London, The
Echo excepted supported that protest or, so far
as I know, referred to the outrage IN any way.
Nor does the ease OF The DTiig NCrS stand alone lie
read message sent to The Su,dard and though he did
not suppress it, forwarded with it note saying its
statements were grossly exaggerated, and that the pub
LEGATION Of it would be pleudcia 10 the interest Of the
public He ana the same thing with a Glasgow message
TO The Manchester Examiner 1t probably wOud do no
injustice to Mr.. ScudamoIe if assume that he
read all the newspaper dispatches on the
subject OF the strike. The P0-t-Oficc Department,
OF which Mr. Scudamorc Second Secretary has neither
dismissed him, repudated his claim that he has
night 10 read and stop kilograms Not word has been
said about it officially. For aught the English public
knows the Department holds Mr.. ScUdImOre's view
No he himself holds it, He has
flooded the newspapers with communications about the
strike he found occasion to express regret for
his conduct in the matter Of Tie DAILY Ne"S
dispatch have some reason TO think that
ne has privately attempted to Justify his
act At any rate, nobody knows to-day whether mes
sage which he obliged to trust to the telegraph safe
from the pryng eye and gapng hand OF MI scudalDore
He may read II or he may not If he reads 1t he may
send it Immediately TO its destination or he may de-
Law it twcntyour hours, he may suppress II alto
gether II ne allows it to 60 it is favor; if he stops it,
the sopuage is in act Of official discretion, and don't
suppose we sbonld get back the shilling we paid for
irving TO send it. Engsbmen giulnbe, but stand IT,
Not being Eugishman, suppose should be thought
presumptuous If ventmed even TO grumble Last year
kept NV kilograms much as possible out OF MI
scudamore's hands, simply because the postal tele-
graphs under his management were slow and mac
cura,e. Now ! must so to stih more trouble II by
chance want to say anything which prefer MI SCUBA
more should not read, which be might think the inter-
suppress.
when Parliament meets MT Scudamorc's preteD-ions
will certainly be inquired into. The Government will
find themselves obliged 10 maintain or to renounce in
the distinct way this preposterous claim Of one OF
their subordmates. No dOubts-I presume even Mr.
scudamore does not dOUbt-that 1t will be renowned
Bu Parliament not meet for another month or Xix
weeks and meantime are IL the hands OF man VINO
has shown himself perfectly INSCRIPTIONS III the use OF
the unlimited power which he possesses over private
communications.
Mr. Odgcr has published account OF his recent eX-
pcr.eDces in making Republican speech at Reading
His audience was quiet and orderly All the disorder
came from the outside. Charles Dixie spoke
Al Bolton an organized attack made on peaceable
meeting showers OF flung through the win
dows An attempt TO break resisted successfully,
but the room untenable while to leave it nvo
we'd no less danger. Mr.. Odger proposed to his
friends that they should 50 out in
body. This was done, and the meeting
marched toward the railway station unmolested, the
mob sinking on mObs always do, before bold front
Surprising the attack over they dispersed, and MI.
Odger went to the station with only six friends They
found the mob waiting for them on the platiOrm-sOme
800 ruans Mr.. Odger, with touching faith in what is
called English fair play, said he wOulG 60 alone;
three hundred win never attack one" But he
forgot that an English Republican has rights which
al English ROY ast Is bound 10 respect. They set on
him with sticks. beat him, kicked him, seized him by
the throat tried nge him. He got away after a
struggle and reached the watiDgrcOm door, where he
vas met by & railway Official who declared he should not
enter and pushed him back into the pursuing crowd.
That Official ought 10 have his salary doubled at once If
there lie any genuine loyalty among railway directors.
Finally police arrived and got Nj. Oger into the train
with bruised head arms and legs, aud ragged clothes
but nothing seriour" adds Mr. Odgor, stOutly.
Well you say these only r0ugbs, and 10 respect
able person any party counteDances sucn proceedings
Il gt..Ts..