New-York tribune., 1885-02-24
NOTES FROM LONDON.
THE SOCIALIST SPLIT-AMERlCAN IOPlCs-
I'M ArI,r ANGTRY AND HER CRITICS.

SfRoM TIE "N LONDON, January %.
rho handful of Englishmen who are engaged III
.ocopstrncting English society are not themselves
nanny family Distressing dlssensiohs h"'o y"''
disclosed themselves. The men are. e.ie"' you '"o9
cannot get OF together. nor can they 0'o AO0r
their ouarrels out of print Inc 'hioo 'a''oiD
Too,ay.st have split asunder-whether ih eA"o,
arithmetical proportion 1 caniU' @ '"'. ,-hon
-. - j.; s.v;,g they are three They appear wheh
a., fu f,rcc and fully united to have numbered Jus'
nne less than bakers dozen. Mr.. "liilah N'o'i''
- ho most known of them. Next to him, the ieaSl
n,kpown u perhaps Mr.. Hyndman. ana next W """
q man who had momentary nOtorieV III Vim,
ton with Mr. Henry George,-Mr. Joyhcs, '"0 ~ r.
master or tutor who shared with Mr' "e"i 80 ~"
privilege of arrest in Ireland year OF TWO "so "a
who was presently afterward made 10 uhuo' '"i,
that Eton could get on without hh' Inc ,I,
of this interesting group bear names "iii'a a,
fear suggest nothing to you II rcpo''0u -
Will among them all they brought ont apaPoi
.. aa'o i q fine name Justice Published weekly ;
modest ouarto of four pages, rather dear aI '"o-
o,,o. or four cents saw one OF the early mum
iors tried honestly to read it could not, ahd ht'o
;,vested no more twopenceS i'll that sort oil Jus'ico
Others seem TO have tried with M better success
than / for the poor little thing did not pay n"u
he supporte ed by Mr.. Norris who maze up nan '
weekly loss out of his own pocket w ho "o"
admit having pocket of his own, aho'.ot - ,t.
,,,o NOT ,iven contributing the other nan. No''
7 snnnose Mr. Chamberlain, for the fresiuen' Vi '
Board of Trade had not then NOR mas hc c.o" w
onnounced himself as a Socialist. Inc eu',oi ""'
NJ ur,d,non Int he too shrank from pubcitV,
and edited the terrible sheet anonymously Eun.e"
- o,so tbought Mr.. Morris, arbitrarily. Inc
a,a;ai1o a,sthete who has adorned London with
new patterns of wall paper and popnlarized new
10
mans cditinu He thought, not unnaturaliy' UNIV
spce he found the money. or half the money "h''h
te,t the thing from the worms, he ought 10 nave
voice in fhe conduct of it. Moreover tho p"h0'
dozen less one mad organized themselves i,''o
Social pemocratc- Federation; trying u i'ho "P
bv lenoth of title for limitation OF mere huIi''i
The Social DemocratcFed had Nou"'"'
and the Council, too. wanted to controi thc'r Wv"
oroan. tbe unreasonable body Mr.. Hyndmah
would be controlled by none OF them. ouch d sHS,
fem he declared. meant ruin. and lie wrote lelter
70 Wr Morris in which he alleged that two other
,oembers of the Council DR.. Aveling and MS
Avelnq. had ruined a previous organ "oy '"c'n
nreiudices and advertising puiery OF themselves
they and with them Bax" by his uisaslrous
weakness This letter. too. is now puoiishou' anu
with il other letters. Letter IRON baN, "no pay
Hvndman's statement is false, ana 'ia' IL "''
Hvndman himself who ruined the olher ois'u'
Letter from Joynes cO-victIm WIN MT, ioi'''
Georre). who denies the charges against 'he A'o-
linps. Letter from the Avengs and eigh' o.hei'
saving they ali in their capacity as mem oeiS "a %
Connou wanted to control Hyndman. who woulu
not he controlled. Letter from Mr. William MOTIFS
covering all these letters. and saying he VIII Say '
more; no doubt his wisest course
The sad result of it all is that the Soclal-De no
cratlcFeleraton is dissolved; Is no longer socl"'
nor Democratic nor federatlve MI MOTIFS h"'
withdrawn, and with him, fear, his haii payhi
of the weekly loss Mr.. Hyudman weekly paPoi
is withdrawn too. What the other frehd mas oono
is not clear nor do clearly see whether tue oocis
Democratic + Feder.tion now CONSISTS Oh any oo''
Int Mr. Hyndman who has genius ior leueiat'"s
with himself Mr.. Morris, however, has talkeu TWO
columns of socialistic rubbish IN The DAILY Ne~s'
beside writing and publishing all these le'.eiS'
With no visible effect whatever except TO provoke
erin on the federative face of The Daily NerSs read
ng nublie The Iriton is slow, but it does not taAe
the slowest Briton long to perceive the humorous
side of this comedy People who set out 10 reoi sa"
ize thirtyfve millions of peope Ito begin WIN OH
new social basis and who can't keep the peace
among their own little company, are not ai'cr an
likely TO overturn the existing social fabrc OIL 'he
United Kingdom.
Mr. Low ell has been explaining to the Society OF
Arts why it is that better work is turned out IN
America than in England. One reason Is that the
American workman of purely American descent
mixes more brains with his fingers than the Engiish
workman does Mr.. Pidgeon. the civil engineer
who wrote a clever and sympathetic book on
America, thought labor had degenerated. No. says
Mr. Lowell, not degenerated but turned IN othei
directions The cock OF Engllsn eNonihe
papeIs evening morning either. remarks tha' the
most interesting things about the American Min
,Ir,tpa
Lowell admits, for instance that tine American
tariff has had its share IN the ruin of American ship
building. and he agrees with those who think that
the adoption of free trade by America would give
England most formidable competitor III the
markets of the world" This is precisely what MI
Lowell did not say. He took pains to make 1t cleaI
that he was quoting the opinion of English free
traders But what is the of taking pains to
make things clear to an evening oracle which has
an intuitive foreknowiedge of everything and Will
not condescend to master mere factsI
Mr.. Capper has at last reappeared upon the stage
with an answer to Mr.. Stnnan. The answer is
perhaps more comic than the original statement OF
which Mr.. Stillman pointed out the absurdities
Mr. Capper has little to say except in answer to the
suggeston that he had been the victim of practical
Jokes. lie is not that sort of man. he tells US
But he insists that he knows Broadway lie
walked down 1t all the way from Union Square td
Eighth-st which Le still seems to regard as the
main portion of that thorOughfare, and a good
deal u1der fifty feet wide" He knows that Central
Park contains s62 acres but none the less seems
to him smaller than ST. Jamess Park III London,
which contains 81. lie is sore nevertheless at the
exposure of his errors. and seeks comfort in a
description Of himself as I" a leading representative
man in his own principality," whatever that may
mead who could well afford to scorn the attentions
of the upper circles of the States" into which he
seems not to have gained admission. The avowa
may be humiliating one; still l am bound in
honesty To confess that never heard of Mr. Cappel