New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-25

,;,,,o 90 ny man deficient in this feeling. NO
I'll, orld underyalue the oratorIcal endowments
ord Roseberv possesses: voice. presence power OF
olaar thinking and the rest. But an orator who Is
70 move the people must be man OF the people as
bot,om-not democrat in the politicalsense not Dy
ony means necessarily radical, but one who hoids
~,;th jefferson that men are born equal or at any
ro,. ara born men. This conviction will IN the
,ong rnn make him irresistible. Already u speaker
Of remarkable powers, he is destined to rank if he
cares TO- at no distant date, an orator in the hlgh
and rare sense Of The word.
Lord Rosebery surprised his audience by speak
inc without notes No scrap of paper was visible
from begipnng to end of the fifty minutes during
which. in the not too elegant House OF Commons
nhrase he was his legs 1t turned out alter
uard that lie had left his notes in London. includ-
inc those from which he meant to complete the
nrenoration of his speech an accident which adds
to the interest of the effort. There are few more
awkward situations than that OF n man who relies
IN n little manuscript help and finds himsell
obliged to speak without it. The rule here Is
notes. MI Bright always uses Them or almost
ALWAYS. Mr. Gladstone has, if nothing more, mem
oranda of the leading figures and perhaps facts he
ia going TO use. Mr.. Chamberlain spoke last night
with the and of four or five sheets of paper NO
doubt Lord Roseberys address lost something in
worth all it cost as practice
Mr.. Chamberlain followed Lord Rosebery. IL
happens that have not heard Mr.. Chamberlain OH
platform for some three years. say ON q pat
form b.cause the oratory which moves popular
audience is thing extremely different from 'hac
debating dexterty which is more in demand IN the
Uouse of Commons than anything else. In the IN
terval Mr. chamberlain. whom | had known as a
clever sneaker has become orator; in a very
true IL not in the very widest sgnifcation Inc
mower and breadth of his address last night cannot
be rxpressed by any word of narrower meaning
than that The point OF view has changed Inc
measure and proportion of speech arc no longer the
same The intellectual poise is more sure the
range greater aud the knowledge OF his audience
more intimate Probably in Birmingham MI
Chamberlain is to be seen at his best. but the es
Oertial Qualities of his oratory as they we're dis
closed on Friday cannot greatly vary. ho n''
stndied Mr.. Bright not in VAN yet between Mr.
Ch,mborloins methods and Mr.. b rights the diver
co,cas are more remarkable than the points Oh
;dontitv That which gives Mr.. Bright bis incon-
totable suueriority to all other English orators Oh
| tb,s rims il not 10 be copied by anybody. what
| bs vouno,r colleague has derived from hlm Is an
c,uoin+ance with thUse processes OF public speak
| ING which are in fact imitable OF colnmuhcapie-
the technical secrets Que to practice 10 Sno"iecse
NJ effect not by any means the pathetic anu SYM
,,othetic mower of Mr. Bright his sounding CT the
deotbs of the human heart or bis elevation OF
| tbouqbt. Mr. Chamberlain's manner Is now one OIL
eonulete SELF. possession "a man, you would say at
| once. sure of himself and of his audience lie mas
| shaken Oft the primuess of his earlier DAYS lhere
mead IN no n certain schoolmaster air about him.
| and pedantry of diction. which have gwen P'aco
| 20 ore.ter Freedom Of bearing and freedom OF
| cfil II
| thew arc fluent. and the mar of the world has got
| ,bs hotter Of the student. The smell of the lamp
| bosvarisbed If ever there was parochial tone
| ~ tbouobt in the ex-Mayor of Birmingham. thai
| too has vanished. The tone may now fairy De
| called statesmanlike. Familiarity WIN Fuse
affairs has been IN education, as IL always Is 10 inc
| man who proves equal to them. and MI Chamooi-
,.jn,s survey of Imperial topics is now such as
might be expected from a Cabinet Minister.
| Save for two passages this speech of the Presi-
| dent of the Board of Trade was as cohVlhc'nt anu
| i,nprecnable in substance as 1T was adniraoie IN
Con-, Tho per,onal attack on Lord Salisbury as an
ariatocrat and owner OF landed property rs inueleh-
.inIa. the more so because Lord ROsebery was
si,,in,, -, and some of Mr.. Chamberlain invectve
,..s ind as applicable to one Peer as TO the Other
| p,t the attack had "A graver fault than want OF
| ,osra. IL was all but cOmmunistio in tone. MI.
| Cbamberlain assaulted Lord Salisbury az the
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| snokesman of a class, OF the CLASS TO when ne
| himself belongs who toll not neither do they spin ;
| whose fortunes as in his case, have originated III
grants made in times long ago for the services when
conrtiers rendered kings. and have since grown ana
increased while they have slept. by levyine an
une.rned share OIL all that other men have done by
t,l and labor to ado the general wealth and pros
merit, of the country of which they form part
That "a said with eloQunce and energy, and IS Ter
fectly misleading and mischievous statement.
| The other point is of course an Irish point Mt
| chamberlain renewed once more his already too
oft repeaed in vitaton TO Irish agtators to perse-
| we're in evil doing. Again he denounced force as no
remedy for discontent-as If anybody ever sald u
| was Again he referred 10 crime and outrage rs
only the expression of the causes of disconent-the
extreme and unjusfablc expression. he called item;
hut what is the use Of saying that the operation OF
a social law is unjustGablc You might as well com
| rIo,, NJ the crimlnatv of earthquakes while in
iti,g that thev ere caused by Irish landlords But
| H. C6amberlain's line IL Irish matters Is known:
ani rioht or wrong docs not diminish tue rhetorical
| n,srits Of a speech which was impressive through
oft fuI of telling hits at foes and stauneh defence
| Of friends: the speech OF man with beliefs ana
| with abundant capacity OF advocating them De
| fore the public W. D.