National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-13
An American in Scotland.

Mr.. r. l.. Winans is not the first Ameri-
can who has succeeded In making an ass of
himself in Europe, but it is due to Mr.. WI
mans to candidly concede that his success
possesses n positiveness of emphasis to which
no predecessor or rival has ever attained.
II Mr.. r. l.. Winans is inclined to be en-.
vious OF his competitors in asininity, II he
breads distant future In which bribed
bards or hired historians may sing or tell OF
q man of his time more asinine than he, we
beg to assure him that his apprehension is
groundless. His fame is secure. His meas
ure has been taken. The coming genera
tions that will know Grant as the greatest
of American soldiers, Webster and Choate
as the greatest Of our lawyers, will not less
surely know II. L. Winans as the most stu
pendous fool that America produced in the
nineteenth century.
The Scotch Highlands afford the theater
in which Mr.. r. L. Winans, self-expatrlated
American, is achieving his prodigious sue
cess. AS our readers have, from time to
time, been Informed by cablegrams, Mr..
Winans has acquired title to and fenced in
immense tracts of territory for deer
forest. In the prosecution of this work
Mr.. Winans has put on more airs than
would furnish an outfit for the royal family
Of Great Britain and the house Of peers.
lie has been naughty, oycrbearing, insolent,
utterly regardless of the rights OF the poor,
and contemptuous even TO the rich. He
has walled up numerous thoroughfares,
and In many ways has made himself the
most honestly and heartily detested man in
Scotland.
But Mr.. II. l.. Winans has profoundly
impressed the Scotch official mind with his
greatness and glory. Itappears that the com
missioners OF excise have actually expressed
regret that their officers should have an
noyed him by intruding, In their search for
Illicit stills, into one Of his glens at time
when he was hunting there with his gillies,
and have engaged TO instruct the officers to
so arrange their inspections as not TO inter
fere with the deer during the season. They
also engage to have notice sent TO Mr..
Winans whenever there is reason TO sls-
pect that Illicit distilllng is going on any
where in his immense domain.
The Glasgow Mail permits It's hot Scotch
temper to so far move its judgment as to
predict that parliament will have some
thing to say about these extraordinary ar
rangements. "Woud auy poor mans field. I"
1t asks, "be exempted from inspection in
the same way aG the American millionaire's
deer forests ~
But although he excise commissioners
"came down" to Winans as humbly no the
head of Nanki Poo TO Poo Bah, our illus
trlous self-expatriated fellow citizen has
found an impediment in another quarter.
Itappears that his extneighbori Inverness
shire, Lord Tweedmouth, has sued out an
''interdict' against him, by the terms Of
which he and his servants are commanded
to refrain from erecting fences at three sep
arate places, where he has undertaken TO
shut up public paths. or course Mr..
Winans will fight his lurdship in the courts
until the arrival OF that long-foretold but
far away day when there is good skating on
fee in the valleys of sheol, for Winans has
the wealth OF Cresus and the obstinacy Of
herd Of Kentucky mules.
Tie London Truth says;
Mr.. Wlnans Is referred TO In many Scotch
newspapers as that nuisance" B)yoottlng Il
wrong, and so is maSing a person acquainted