The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-26
A EUROPEAN TOUR.
A Brief Trip with Ex-Attorney General
Baldwin
Through England, France, Italy, Germany
and Switzerland, In Hour.

Ex-Attorney General Baldwin was in the
city few hours yesterday, and knowing
that he had recently returned from Europe
Sentinel representative managed to corral
him in coy corner and persuade him into
an informal description of what he saw on
the other side of the Atlantic.
He left New York about the first of June
for Glasgow, where, after spending three or
four days, he ran down to Ayr and "Bobbie
Burns" From there to Edinburgh, York,
The English manufacturing districts and Ok
ford. He spent four weeks in London very
delightfully."-. To the question as to his i'm
pressions concerning England, Mr.. Baldwin
replied
England is land of enormous contra
dictions. The learned are very learned, and
the ignorant unspeakably ignorant, the rich
very rich, and the poor very poor, all the re.
suit of their system
How did YOU like the English socially?r
Very much, indeed. l did not find the
gruff, traditional John Bull; on the contrary,
a very pleasant, clever people"
How did their theory of Government
strike your
Il think that the English Government is
stable are omnipresent They have some
very able men in English politics. am dis
posed to think that Gladstone is about at the
end of his career, but he has some very able
young men associated with him, chief of
whom are Sir Charles Dixie and Joe Cham.
berlain. 1 think the latter the brightest
Young man in English politics. He is no
Oxford or Cambridge man, but graduate of
the iron trade of Manchester. He is not yet
forty, but by all odds the most sagacious
Liberal, and the mostspopular man in Glad
stones cabinet. 1t may be that the MARQUIS
of Harrington will stand in his
way, but in the END Chamberlain will be
Prime Minister.
Where did you 90 after doing En-
gland?"
Il went to
PARIS
and stayed four weeks there Paris is a con-
traction of Paradise, and all good Ameri.
cans go there both before and after death. -
DO you think the average Parisians are
satisfied with the present form of Govern
mentP
Yes and no The French people have to
be amused, and so long as the Government
gives them something 10 talk about they are
satisfied. As soon as the Govern ment fails
to do this they want a change. Napoleon
the Third understood them thoroughly, and
his successors failure to crafty them in this
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to and loss of power. / can not speak too
highly, however, of the character of the
French working people. They are industri-
Gus, polite, temperate. economical and
happy. They own the bulk OF the land in
France
After getting through with Paris where
did you go?'
~ went into the North of France, into the
region of the Franco.Prussian War and into
the wine districts of the South of France and
from thence to Switzerland where l spent
three weeks climbing the Alps l think the
grandest experience of a mans life is found
in Alpine travel l was especially interested
in the st. Gotthard's Railway and tunnels.
1t is popularity supposed that there is but one
tunnel. In fact there are six tunnels. The
shorter tunnels as specimens of engineering
skill are greatly ahead of the long. ten-mile
tunnel. In my travels over the great rail.
way, was constantly puzzled to know which
to admire most, the sublime works of Nature
which said to man; thus far and no farther,
or the wonderful skill of man who refused to
be restrained, butcarried his railroad through
the bowels of gigantic mountains and tri
umphed at last 1 neNe r felt so proud of the
human race as we came out from