The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-09
A BRITISHER'S VIEW
OF Agriculture Education, British
Politics and the Irish
Citizen.
He Thinks American Farmers and
stOFk TaiscTs Can Have 10
all Their Own Way.

painfully aware that this means the death
knell Of landed estates in England - The
above opinion was expressed to reporter by
Edward Brooke, descendant Of the BrooileS
of the historic house of Warwick, " who is
himself a landed proprietor. He lives at Wex
ham park, Buckinghamshire; is president of
the Buckinghamshire Agricultural association
and is also queens commissioner of agrlcul
ture, and magistrate for Middlesex. Mr
Brooke is at the Grand Pacific hotel, accom-.
panied by his wife. During the last three
months they have visited the manufactures
in the New England states and inspected the
great wheat growing farms and the cattle
ranches in the far west Yes said Mr
Brooke Il do not expect the agrlculturists Of
Great Britain to believe me when tell them
of the agricultural resources Of America and
therefore | have secured the certificates of
the governor of California and other Amari-
can officials indorsing the figures | shall
present for their consideration. Ga a farm at
Stockton, Cal, saw 5000 acres of unbr0ken
wheat crop. On Dr. Glenns farm at Causa,
Cal, | am told that AZ, 900 acres of wheat
We're grown in 1851 This year he has 50, 900
acres devoted to wheat 1t is simply que5
ton Of time when the landed estates of Eng
land will be practically worthless, for they
will never he able to compete with this state
ot things The development of cattle ranches
more particularly in Kansas, astonished me
Cattle breeding is getting to be thing OF the
past in England. | am told by MIR. Glenn
manager of the German bank of Denver, who
is one OF the owners of cattle ranch, that in
five years time they quadrupled the number Of
then stock and their capital. Here in America
9l00 will purchase 100 acres of land, while in
England Is is paid for the bare rent Of an
acre of ground 1t costs less to bring corn
from America to Liverpool than it does by
rail from Scotland to London"
DO you think these facts will influence the
freight rates Of Great Britain@
They must Our tariff Is terrific. It, is
unjust, \ bag Of gold OF dead OK the rate
is rYorhitant'
Outside Of these things, what other ot,sel
vations have you made3"
"As member of the school hoard at home,
l have acquainted myself with your edncn
tional system"
What are your Views concerning itE'
| You 20 too far on ono hand and not far
| enough on the other Yoa educate the brain
OF the rising generation without educating
the hand You are negecting what We call
| technical education consider it the bound
| en- duty Of every government not to tnln a
| child adrift into the world until you have
completed the education by putting trade
into the fingers Ii boy has an appetite fol
| drawing teach him to be an architect II
| his mental capacity does not jus
nfy this, make him blacksmith
Or hricklayer, but make him capable
| of doing something with his hands apart from
his mental requirements. Failure to do this
| is doing an injustice to the boy. The market
! is flooded with head-edncated boys You
want good mechanics and first class artisans
Train up the boy, and you will not he depen,
dent upon Europe / was talking with Nr
Pullman manager. He said: We are moi
breeding skilled workmen They are not
/ educated TO it Why don't you educate
them to it, asked him, and he replied
Their organizations are such that they viii
not admit American boys into their uuious "a,
apprentices "
"You arefavorahg impressed with the in
ventive genius in America
There is nothing in the world to compare
| with it 1t is the backbone OF the country
but if it Is not kept alive by technical schools
II III illt lOI tab W ant bi NtJdliIb
How do the English regard American cIti
2ens in generalf'
England is a friend of America One Of
your countrymen when in England is re
| ceived as a cousin We are not received that
| way here. | don't know why. If the Amer
lean people could have only seen what al
England saw when Garfield was shot
the bond. between them would bt
much tighter than now. Every mar
| in England through the length ant
breadth of the land felt the sorrow The
poorest man wore bit of Grape around hi
arm. This feeling is not reciprocated by the
mass of American people They call 'r
blarsted Britishers | can recall Instances
where we have been pointedly snubhet
| They say that we hold that We are bette
than anybody else We are what We are
We are not responsible for our position. Ou
place in life has been the work of time ant
the Influence of ages. In England nohIamtr
is polite to a beggar, and II beggar civil to
uObleman.'
is liberalism advancing in EnglandT
"As a member of the Carlton club, | am
conservatives Liberalism has gone too far
Gladstone was the embodiment of liberalism
The conservatives Of England are the back
bone of aristocracy. They are loyal to Tia
queen, The extreme liberals are those win
would not be sorry to see the death kneli o
monarchy struck with the incoming of tn
Prince of Wales Liberalism is not advane
ing A great reaction has taken place amon
the workingmen They are sustaining th
conservatives WOrkngmen's conservatiy
clubs are being established Sitting by the sid
of Gen Roberts who was in command durini
the war in Afghanistan, heard himallude t
the matter He blamed the Gladstone policy
which gave up what tho country had Tough
for. He said: What is declaration Of war
A declaration of war is a bill drawn upo
human blood This bill was drawn and tha
bill was met by the British blood of the com
try, and now this government is inoculatin
the most pernici0us doctrine-tbat this Brit
ish blood is to be shed in vain, and all th
treasure that has been spent, and the achieve
ments gained will he given back to the enc
my, which was the case. The workingme
were dissatisfied with Gladstone's policy, fo
they had brothers and friends in that war"
what is the English opinion of the Iris
citizen"
"You will never make true America
subject of the Celt-the uneducated Irish
The Celt is to us what the Indian is to You
precisely The priest-ridden Ceit may in tiv
years have the privilege of voting, but it i
comforting on him what he does not desire
The two blisters on your nation al
Salt Lake and the CeIt. l have seen Sc,
eral of the latter who are dissatisfe
with America. They were complaining G
landed estates and landowners. ] told ther
that they would find larger land grabbers i
America than in England, but land was fire.
TO those who would work for it in America
The Celt howled about America, and h
would howl in paradise -
Mr.. Brooke believed his country was
blame for the assisted emigTant. If he wa
assisted, he was still a pauper. and one vo
unteer, he thought, was worth ten presse
man.
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