New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-15

men produced on British audience was not. am
sorry to hear, altogether q favorable one. With
the matter Of Mr.. Horace Whites speech no fault
was found. We all know Mr.. White as an able
man, perfectly competent to state his case clearly
and strongly, with pen in his hand But he Is not
n practised speaker, and it requires speaker OF
more than average skill to hold an after-dInner
audience of three hundred gentlemen engaged In
active private discussion and in the consumption OF
tobacco. Mr.. Whites moderate statement about the
condition OF his own country perhaps disappointed
the sangine Briton, who reads every week OF so In
his paper that America will shortly open Der ports
to British goods. The abstract principles offree
trade he declared had not made much progress in
the United States recently. This avowsl must be
blow to Professor Sumner; blow also to that
sminent American Free Trader who lately went
about London affirming that in America the INTEL
lectual battle had been won Ii is on the practical
side Mr. White tells u.s. that free trade has made
progress lit was the pinching of the shoe that
made England a free-trade country, and the same
experience would soon bring America round 10 the
Same policy This, fear, shocked the true COD
denite who has been accustomed to regard the
economical doctrines of his leader as kind OF Cos
pei from Mount Sinai.
As for MIR. T.. G. Sherman, what we Americans
have most to be grateful for in the Kindly
omission of the London press to report the more Oh
fensive parts of it. Mr.. Chamberlain perhaps
| imperfectly acquainted with Mr. shearmans
career. omitted to commend him to English
regard as the excounsel of tho late Mr. James Fisk
OF to make any auslon to the trial of Mr. Beecher
Mr. Sbearman, however. described himself, IN terms
| eoually graceful and modest, as delegate from
| the greatest country in the world to the next
greatest. Next he informed his fellow guests that
he was man of religious life, and forthwith pro-
| ceeded TO argue for free trade on moral grounds
| and to proclaim that the cause was 10 be fought
| henceforth in America on q high moral basis
Mr. White had Just been tengthe club that trade
| would be advanced by the pinching OF the shoe IN
America. Mr.. Sherman on the other hama in-
sisted that the triumph of free trade doctrines Is
| to be obtained by insisting on the principles OF
Justice and brotherly love among mankind. There
is ga deep moral feeling running through the con-
victions of the American people whatever that
NAV mean. / infer that Mr.. Sherman Is to go
home as a missionary for the propagation OF these
nev ethics I hope he may. 1t does not much
| matter what nonsense he talks at home. But an
American powcrless for mischief in his own country
| NAV do some mischief to the reputation OF his
| country abroad: If not in morals. III manners.
G. WIS.
HOW THE RESERVATIONS ARE VIEWED IN
,vpox THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSBl
| PARIS. June 20.
The retirement of six Wing members from the
| Golden Club has exercised the quidnuncs mere.
Did they retire because Of Clemenceau. or OF Cham
berlain is question asked by many journals The
answer probably is Because of both. and out OF def
erence to the first three dissidents They were
Baron Ampthill formerly Lord Odo RusselD. his
brother. Lord Arthur Russell, and Mr.. Goschen.
Lord Arthur-and this fact explains a good deal
| ia the husband of Legitimist French lady. She
| was nee Peronnet, and is the granddaughter oil
Charles Xtfs Minister of the Same name who signed
the ordinances which were the immediate cause OF
the Revolution of 1880. Lady Arthur Russell
| belongs to the Valom brosa set which poured into
| the ears of Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Wolverton at
Cannes cruel and wholly baseless ISLANDERS against
| Clemenceau. Lord Arthur. OF course. derives his
opinions on French political men from Legitimist
source. He and Baron Ampthili and the MeSsrs.
Goschen Cartwright. and Creyke, have talked over
the scandalous assertions which were actively
circulated at Cannes last winter. and without stop
ming to inquire II they were true or false
aprsed TO show themselves virtuously
| Indignant. Their excuse Is that Clemen-
eeau's election was too purely political.
because the object of the Golden Club Is economic
! REFORM One would be glad TO know, then. what
was the title Of Baron Ampthill or of his noble
| brotheri His lordship has been for many years In
Berlin aud sees French Radicals through iustrious
Prussian eyes Creyke, the member OF Parliament
for York, is simply foolish. judge him from let
Ter of his to an Engishman here, In which he un-
burlened his mind OH the subject both of Chamber
lain and Clemenceau What they really dislike in the
latter is his sincerity. so long as the English wings
| thought Garnbetta staupch to his principles they
| swallowed every falsehood that his enemies put IN
| circulation. As soon as they thought he was not
tribune but self-seeking politician. they turned
round and burned incense under his nose. do not
say he was what their fancy toward the end oil
| mis- career painted him. Gambetta would, had he
| lived, am persuaded. have returned to his hrst
! love and perhaps developed into deep reformer
Goschen IL bland and shallow, though IN some re-
| spects clever. AS City man he is drawn toward
| the Rothschilds and other high priests OF the
| golden calf. They hate Clemenceau, and If 1t be
admitted that the possession Of heaps Of money Is
the be-al and the endall Of human exertions, they
| are right.
| Clemenceau takes good -humoredly the talk and
| controversy which has been occasoned by the re-
trernent of Lord Ampthili and the other five Wings
| from the Golden Club. He is going TO Havre next
| Sunday TO make a speech. saw him last night
and heard from him that he declined TO attend the
| Golden Club banquets many days before the wings
in question seeded.
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