New-York tribune., 1876-03-11

logical tracts. But the more proinult NJ, ~ q, Ibrv
s5sSa' sSas4 fRs ss rs%i' S t. @
Of ws S91 don't have %.n S &c @9
Athanasisns because they don't Destroy M
Of the Inircb the better Disrses half cynical sup
port OF things they suits them better ,oo much
DisrapU deals in sentiment but avoids 700 muyn
reasoning lie talks with pride OF Englands historic r
throne and old families, hut don't say why. lhfe rns Is n
nndproue in his speeches Of skepdcisl whch hahes W.
the people believe that they more likely to get M ,ho
Church where they want IL from ine h fhe dark and
Establish household snifrnsc than from Giadsone, who
resisted that franchise as re nov SeepSs thew We're
posed by his rival The people IKE sIaen to9. pe0s %
ihe Tories hate him n me II Ihty e ral wp am election but
they dread him when is 10 speak the House OF Com
MONS is scene. The room is always crammed, a. ana a
often. that now the surprise would be II he gave none
he ns aScUn s,s Hf Of nfcn and To
most people would say hey tSld Sr You ycn1eesed Sy
accession to the Premiership His power was 40 ~, at
assailant and critic ami he is not suncenly tn r0
indeed heieye.that both Gladstone and Disrae have
arrived AT period in Parliam niary cover me- bnme
that which in earlier days their strength nas
a weakness They are fine speakers ana farHai,henV
doesn't like fine speeches Rhetoric bas Decone al I
inafon They begin 10 like silent members VINO WOrk
hard on committees and never talk. heard OF member
who had been in the House 20 years WITHOUT inaslnS
sneech un I'm 2Is he and the house was pau
The crisis Of England seemed near inuetu Wn,n ii.
man lose his feet. However he only sad ne d dnouSr
that during the cold weather the door behnd e Seahe
ought TO kept closed II man becomes 100 el9qaent
the House suspects he s showing himself Oh, ana u pe
gins the fatal cry, Divide But u man flsgs anu
sammers and and seems in distress, the House
sweetly inclines that man, suppose because theS
know that would put himself IN such palhiluI
position unless he had something 10 say remember
being present when Mr.. Mil, IN what believe was hls
frst eccb in the House quite forgot what he intended
to say; hut he kept on his feet, end Parllalnent
waited with him some minutes, until Hg en i cs
The day of the old style OF eloquenee IL apOut over III
Parliament, the day OF dry fact ana emo'ole's rea
has come, and the next statesman VINO leaHs nEbI @
will have neither Gladsones fatal faculty 0f words nor
Disraes studied mastery Of phrases .-..,.,ou
In me popular faith and feeling. IL mas been called
Tory reaction, but 1t Is not that II the people had
really any love for Tory principles they would demand
as tier leader not Disrae but tue Marquis of salisbury
He is the real representative OF Ioryhm me
take any serious new step whatever, and Dis
Taeli is the man for them; because ne mas
10 particular principles at all. He doesn't want any
changes His ideal England is reached-n mely, The
arstocracy I'm power ana himself at their head lho req
The Marquis of Salisbury has said that IL the history OF
tn. European Continent were lost 1t could be rewritten
by observation Of the effects reflected from on Engls
politics And lately there has been Wild outbreak OF
communism in France TO check further advance OF
England toward Democracy. Nay sue mas nad serious
Little experience OF her own In the election OF Dr.
Kenealy-a coarse demagogue-to Parliament ny G0n-
etituency which represents the lowest Irahcse Bn,
| feel bound To add my conviction that neither The
French Commune the roughs epresented by keneay
have much TO cool tue af1or ol Engshlheh Io
any lower extension Ot the franchise as some recent
events in America The Credit Mobiher revelations the
Diplomatic scandals, the sight OF an American nOalg
the staT-spaugled banner over private and fraudulent
had the effect inspiring IN tlrm
a sober second thought on tins policy Oi bringing iOr
ward popular ignorance TO swamp the Intelligence ana
virtue OF their country
THE YOUNGER SCHOOL OF POLITICAL THINKERS.
Il is not therefore, time when can look for any
great leader to appear The House OF Commons does not
lack strong meD but the msgvings Of the whole coun
try are upon them There IL the Hon. Robert Lowe,
whose ability hardly elualled and not surpassed IN the
House; hut he too independent to be party leader
Mr. Forster has failed because, like Gladstone he has
theology on the brain. Prof Fawcett might he looked
10 as the coming Premier II ne were not phyHcaly
blind Sir Henry James and sir William H9rcOurt are
fair prnisesratler too much absorbed III their unu
filled careers For present, those VINO would appe-
bend future of England must look rather 10 hat
Younger school of pOntca thinkers who are outside O
Parliament nut who shaping the near legislation OF
the countrytO such men - john Morley. Matthew AT
mold Prof Becsley, ana Frederick HarlsOn WITH them
is advancing power a new gcnerltlOn-One Whlcu
has been sitting this long time at the feet OF
( arlyle to learn tue nature OF sham rings
and paper aTstocracy, and at the feet Of Mill learning
the principles OF liberty and justice. They have studied
scr0usy tho lessons OF political history An age Oi
science has taught that The Old must every wnere
be recOusldcred and much OF II abandoned U has taught
them too that the method of nature IL the night pOtc
lhodto plant life amid decay, and trust natural Sc
iectIOns supeI eede what dying by making feed the
more vigorous growth of to-day. While such men are
thinking and working in England none need indulge the
hope apprehension That the country has entered
on the path OF decline, yet uniOed the ast and high
eat contribution II holds for humanity.