New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-15
MR.. ARNoLDs CONCLUSIONS.


,a,aing of our thoughts upon them NOR nv own
NornaiIs, Imagine To myself an American MS own
,sta,ions and his habits of Thought being seh ns VIC
have seen listening 20 us as we taik ioS in,
men have considerable difficulties he wo9la say ,hi
they look at them sGsg' thu so fine y" Qualities Of
Lord Speucer 2-apd l. for my part, am gu - 49, oui
admit that he NAV require ler sNSn , mere stringent
nowers OF repression. For gtoen Petoa. :, tho
afterward Has Lord Spencer any e,es oht before
great the profound changes stu 10 oe w Iaiand Has
stable and prosperous society can arise ID f
he any ideal f9 the i9r Eennar or any other
GREAT landlord who Is his Trend ana llN an ~
nanc,a aS socrty IN ireland settling quietly down again
npor the old basis And be might a. WEI oi - %t
stecn and like Mr. Tievcyan. and rejoice IN the lgh
proInise Of his career And now an llIs I a
plauded when he turned upon the exaSpera'lhs anu
sltin~ Irish members and tod them that he Was m
Fnglish gentleman -! Yet. II one thinks %. ";
that he was Just that which ireland Goes hS wans h
which can do her nc s%oS but she has also given
her scany Of her s ens re eetemsn WITH his
Sonesty personal high bearing good
aud limited vision; what she waits = Iii santeman
inst the qualities which the typical Flsiisu n Ie
has -Aexbility openness Of mind, a free ana large
VIC" - THE BRITISH PHILIsTINE.
,,orrr,oro we shall +ud in our thinking a sort Of
warp 1cinng it aside of the real mark ana mus ~
ns Of value The % he Hon St Of GS
,,nt ,nch eynect perhaps understand rue Signs o
this time But even the Be %, sfSand is ike ore
seeing thinking aud speaking IN soe G,1, rts is nro
,otes With the House Lords. and strashtwMM nc
declares himself against the existence Oh m do,"nn
her nj al althougif there be such thing as 1
sraon in politics working of the american na Ibe
demonstrates well composed seeo.' ncyocy What
VERY need and safes nard Of rodern ,f toderc
s;ngnlar twist again. in man OF Mr. fre ,a &c
poTs sner nU Weighted himself
The race OF life by taking up groteSaute o4 T., d
ge ~ taxing mn the Protestant Dissenters 100; and
now when he is becoming elderly II seems o a. sietw to
%,1s, How neryerse vet again, In Mr. Herbert spen-
GER at the very moment when past nescels ,'u %
nni,v act for the pubic good in it's collective and cor
porate character Of III Stne how Perverse "a go ~
indiyianalism and not only to drag tins dead morse
along the public ROAD himself put 70 hd9oe "i
Herbert to devote his days 10 n"ge7ng lt' - - ,,s 4,
Wa think thus unaccountshy because we are nIlns II
an unnatural and strained state oo Ti tb,e tnr
bid and distorng atmosphere or whose oNels.S o
t s iust ask ourselves looking at the thing as people
simply DESTROYS Of finding the trntu no" men W. 80"
~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. seeing and thinking has. have said
il not in all matters. yet commonly IN Ioncat anu
xond proceed in the three COMMISSIONS which have given
as instances of the many COMMISSIONS now
fhe confusion of our foreign affairs. the CONFUSION
the House of Commons. the confusion OF Ireland Ana
then when have discovered the kind OF
natural in these cases, let us ask oursenes WIN W ,S
same sincerity what Is the cause OF tnat warp OF d
hindering most of us from seeing straght III 'e' al"
aT9 nc .nrrn Pednnea business has lately called forth
from all sides many and harsh @ - ,r
lord Granville who Is charged with the dlTecnon on our
foreign affairs. shall not swell ine eaorus ~ t =, ne
pnnec,ed Lang ago I remarked that il is not Lord
Granville himself who determines our foreign poes an ~
S't mower behind Lord Granville. He and his col
iearues would call it the power OF public OPINION ~ Is
rely t nera Governnent have hitherto had 10 depend
for support-the Philisnes or middle Glass w NOT
reneat i'm Lord Granville in his natural state ana
force that foreign Government has to deal Is with
Lord Granvs waiting in devout EXPECTATION TO see now
an nj that on
When Prince bismarck deals with Lord Granville he
ENDS that he is not dealing mind 10 mnd T mn an Of likes
and disikes hopes and fears stock obbng intIlgnes
missionary Interest," guhS and bs Stercp eans
Vet ignorant as Philistine middle class may ne u
rolttIons on foreign affairs would have more integi,
bity and consistency uttered through spokesman OF
their own class Coming through nohicnIah NE Lolu
deals Of the middle class and yet wishe; To act as
proctor for It. they have every disadHantaee ne oo.
even do Justice to the Phstlne Inid sueh as ~ - aVr
which he is spokesman he spprenenas Mn nee Son
aud expounas t. al him ana thes
San through Derby their interpreter from te
te ao Bern the thing naturally ends by Lord Gran
Vile at last wringing his adrolt hanus anu
aisconsoately: Ii is misunderstanding at9Seiher.
TYen vet more to be ped perhaps was the lard use
of Lord Kimberley after the Maluea iii al,asef f
s fan Of the dissenting ineres; aud
slanins no tse ss,n of blood outlines r. TO TINS has
came the tradition Lord somers. the WING Ongafchy
of iGss and all Lord Maeauays PantheOn
,a thot source OF strength 10 America in politica
and social concerns the hG'nogeneons character o.
A1eFeaM eject the mind of Ms feOwcizens from
MS beinC in sympathy with IL, understanding anu shl
~ classes the Phstine middle class is really the
inspirer of foreign policy that pocy World ~ ie,sl
snokesman Yet think the rne mora to he Grawn Is
rather perhaps, this that our foreign policy would be
f. to the confusion in the House OF Commons what
aparl from de rules OF procedure are lt causes
doubt, the temper ana action 81
fhe ri IN members But putting this cause OF confusion
OF view for mon enI' ever one a G that se dc
takes "a quantity OF business which belongs pfe poP
ia one which is constantly increasing. because
fhe country becomes fuller and more awakened business
multples and more members OF the House are
inclined 10 take part in it, Is not the cure for tDl-
ionnd in course ike that followed IN America, ia
having a much less numerous House OF Commons ana III
nakns over large part Of its business 70 local assem-
bies elected, the House o commons l,seii WIZ heicc
forth be elected, by household suffrage hare 1.ten
sYd that we seem need at present, In England
three Things especial: more equality educ@t loh ior
the middle classes, ana thofOush mueiP'I >!
system Of local assemblies Is but the natural oOpe
Incnt of thorough nuneilL sysoe' q, 1 n%%ie
tcO large nor too small NOT necessarily Vi eda@. o
non by any means but with Characters render nS thenl
81 ,nits for choosing these local assemblies. such units
occur Immediately TO ones MIND IN the PR 'lhces Vi
Irlan1 the Highlands and Lowlands OF Scotland wales
north and south, groups 81 Enshsn co ,, 81 49,
present themselves the circuits of the judges OF under
The names East Anglia or tie Midlands 40 one VIII
s,se me guilty of the pedantry OF here laying out
deinitve DISTRICTS do but indicate such unit i's may
eonhle the the KIND OF basis required
for the local assemblies OF which am speaking Inc
bnsiness of these districts would be more
dcue in assemblies kiBd they would form useiu
school for the increasing number OF asrnts To pubic
life and the House Of Commons would te renewed
The strain IN ireland would be reeItd too and by nat
u, and safe means. Irisimen t1 be found, Who III
desperation tue present state OF their country CITY out
national Parliament Dublin, with her own foreign
Office and diplomacy her own army anu i ps
tirs,Ie But here again let look at what Is done ny
veorle who in politics think straight and clear let
rs observe what Is the United States The Gov
eminent at Washington reserves matters OF Imperial
congo; "a matters such those enumerated, which
eaDnot he reinquised without renquishing the unity
81 tie empire Neither does Ii allow one great south 10
1e reconstructed great West. with southern Par
sncnt or WESTERN. Provinces that are too LARGE are
i,rnken mn as Virginia has been broken up. But the
seycrsl states ere nevertheless real aud important
.lcles each with its Legislature and TO each the