New-York tribune., 1879-09-15
ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.

GRIEVANCES AND THE REVIVAL OF TRADE ~
THIS sCOUNTRY-CAPTAIN CAREY AND THE QUEEN.
lPkos TUE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBrNB.l
INvERNEss-sHRE. Aug. 2S.-rherc is something
appalling in the regularity of the English postal
service. You have not even n days respite, sun
days excepted. The post turns YOU out newspapers
and letters with the reinorseless puuctuahty Of
machine. l should have been glad TO miss Tues
days lines for example II would have saved me the
annoyance of remarking once more on the perform
ances of its Philadelphia correspondent. This gem
tleman has thought fit to supply the British market
with another long libel on his own country. His
subject is the tyranny and corruption of railways,
on which he SAYS some things that are true
hat not new, aud some as TO which you may
judge for yourselves. I can extract but
plum or two ont # this singular Philadelphia pud-
ding. Is 1t true, for instance that the railway Ill
terest rules the whole United states "in all essen
tal things, and that State Legislatures, Governors,
Congress and the Cabinet are many puppets III
the hands of the railway king9l the charge be
true of some Legislatures and Governors Is it true
of all, and Of Congress az a whole, and of the Cab
inot1 Is it true that tot only the law-nakers but
"law-eyp pounder,' owe allegiance 70 the railways,
and that Judges are expected to and generally do
obey these corporations -th0t all Judges do, lac
airmsi Is ii trle that In yonl Legislatures every
man has his prlce ~ If these things be not true,
what do you think OF the American who falsely
selts them abroad III the leading journal of Europe
And if they be true what do you think of him'
1t does not appear that this writer has any per-
sona grievance for which he thus seeks redress His
lottor is not angry His style is composed his cal
umnics are uttered coolly. Tie motive which I'M
pels him, far judge. is hire and salary.
not revenge. He is dare say, rs patriotic as other
people, save when it pays better 10 be unpatuot.c.
| vii not do him the Injustice 10 suppose that lac
really thinks SO i'll of his couurymen ss he writes.
Ilc can hardly believe, for instance, many
Americans would take British pay for re-
Wiling their friends and brothers and COM
patriots in n British Journal. Most of them
would shrink from Il as frorn base act.
The money would stink. He supposcs, no
doubt, that now. ~ in those days when his pen was
at the service OF the Rebellion. the English take
pleasure in reading all the evil things that can BE-
said. truly falsely. of America. If he could only
understand that his employers would rather hear
good accounts than bad, snppos!ng them true ne
would dare say, just readily send good ac-
counts. He can hardly study attcnt vcly the Journal
TO which he contributes. or hc would have noticed
its change of tone during la'o years in dealing with
American affairs. Bu. he VII NOT miss the article
in which his own letter l. discussed and rdicalcd
When he has read it. he viii know what
il is to have been elaborately chalcd up
and down column or Iu Times. Ills
exaggerations and aspeT,ons could not he
more cilcc,ually met tnaa by being burlesgv'd
"Thc Great Republic" says The iiErs, " If we may
believe our correspondent, is only "a Repubhc rs
Rome was a Republic 10 tAe days Of rompey and
Caesar aud Crassus, as Venice Wa- Republic under
its Council of Ten, Florence was Republic under
its earlier Medicis." If our Philadelphia be insens-
ble to banter and contempt he may feel the rebuke
which his own paper publicly inlicts him: " Our
correspondents Judgment on Legislative hon es =,
that every man has his price, harsh to degree
only permissible 10 natives IN Judging their c1uu-
,r,mou. Roa.sf Americans wtiine under the sense
hqf il sanG4 4rd Of public honesty should bc below
that Of privat, citizens" That is what honest
Americans d. they Uritc under thc shame of their
country. il shame there bc. They may think 1t
heir duty 10 expose 10 40 hone because exposure IS
the besl means oi stopping the "a schIei. But hey
do not hawk lt about for show in I foreign land. Tor
price.
/ nave y pleasure in ca lieG attention 10 such an
oGerre a. tAis rhilade.phian has committed 1t
uiall bc passed ia silence II il were the hrst or
the second. Bat J., ha. been frequent and there is
no manner of doubt that suca letters do q real harm.
They axe the doligl; OF oar enemies, and enemies
we s:,il have. They arc quoted al over Europe in
Liberal cause ia every European country well ~
to our country And /, may bc worth adding that
the harm they do us il not only the moral side.
Il il not only .le good name of America which suf-
fere. II, credit in the market suffers, its
uoucyci interests suffer- its business su'-
fei, i;s hoads sell less freely aad at less prco,
and the captaist who contemplated investing his
surplus in something American thinks twice before
r.sl,ing I. IL a country where tie testimony of
an American honesty an jastce DO not exist.
II used 10 be said that every EngshmIn who
rocs L. America and comes back. either writes
hook or makes a speech about the country hc has
surveyed Tn, distinguished visitor who has just
LETT you the Duke OF Argyll. is likely enough 10 do
both lie has already delivered a speech, or par. OF
q speech which find reported in n local paper Ii
was made at bazaar held in Oban, for the benefit
Of some church in that place. Tho reference to
America was only incidental, and there was no set
discourse upon the country, nor account of the
Dukes travels. nor any good advice to you
abou; Prcsid,nt-makug. Perhaps an echo
of the laughter which followed his efforts
in behalf of Gcac.al Grant has reached
the Dukes car Yet n ii did, he would bo
sure H. think the echo filsc one Never could he
be got to comprehend that anybody should laugh at
ANYTHING said by the MscCal,un More But on
this occasion he talked only about American agri-
culture, and made comparisons between the
depression In America and the depression in Eng
land. H. had been present AT a meeting of Ameri-
can dairy farmers held to consider The prevailing
distress-hs does not say where. some OF the
farmers told him that the prices they got for pro-
duce would not pay interest on the capital they
mad invested. reckoning nothing for labor and
other outlay THIS seems 10 have surprised the
Duke. as well it might, and he afterward asked an
;t tcV M
hard times az the English farmers do. The man
answered that in America the farmers owned their
farms, and being ready to sell at any tlme were not
foolish enouuh to depreciate their own property.