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

domestic service, within tho 0f conditions which
an American may fact be called upon to traverse. he
passes easily from sort Of ocoupadon to ano.bsr.
t9 5enss and 1so scss' 90 h
or makes him lose caste: and poverty Itself appears 70
humiliatine When tue immigrant from Europe strikes
root In his new home. he beco nes as the American.
their independence had not tue elements Tor dvIsSn
into classes and that they deserve no praise Tor NOS
they deserve praise tor tneir Institutions, saying
how we'll their institutions work Consierins inieed
how rife are distinctions or rank and class la world
how prone men IN gem raj are to adopt them. how much
feeling their attraction, 1t shows, think AZ let strong
good sense IN the Americans TO have forborne fron all
| attempt to invent them at the outset. aud to have
escaped resisted any fancy tor nyenilng them
But evidently the United states constitute themselves
not amid the circumstances OF 'euia age but in
modern not uLder the conditions OF an epoch favor
able to suboriinaon but under those OF AN epocn OF
expansion Their institutions did but comply with tue
form and press ire Of the circumstances and conditions
ami Concentration needs centres OF AMI property.
rcinorces property by joining distinctions of rank
solid And in fual ages this is WELL for It's chang
ng hands easily would be source Of weakness. But In
shall have his chance the readily property
hands better. The envy with winch ITS holder is
regarded dDiBshes, society safer think, whatever
may be said of the worship Of the almighty dollar IA
America IL Is indubitable that rich msn are Regarded
there with less aud hatred than rch neu are IN
Europe. Why this Because their condition Is less
them seriously than otner people. make grantees
OF them. aid them ID found families and endure Win
and every rcn aspires grandee IL poss
| bic. And therefore all English country gentleman
himself part OF the system OF mature; Govern
and Legislation have invited hin so to do. II tue
price OF wheat fall. 10 low that bis bean. o. expenditure
are greatly reduced. he tells You that II TINS lasts he
caunot possibly On as country gentleman; aud every
wel7O.ed person among Us LOOKS sya%pat t spa
The Conservative newspapers are fond OF giving us, as
ne Country genteiaan could not be Induced to 1--we
on his estate. An American would say: what does
matter e. Perhaps TO an English ear this viii sound
brutal point l. that the Aneric III does not take
his rich seriously We do oars does not make
hImeif the American mounare who adds dcer-forcst
ami viii sufer cottler 10 Keep pet
Lamp, regards his performance colossal sroko
OF American hunor illustrating tho absurdties OF tue
British system OF property and privilege Ask Mr..
Alnans II he would promote the Introduction OF INC
British gameaws into tho United states and ne would
you merry laugh that tne idea Is ridcuo ~
and that these British fohes are for home CONSUMPTION
The EXAMPLE OF France must not mlseld u.s. There
the institutions. an oejec or may say are repb' an
yet the division and hatred between rich aud poo IL
intense True; but ID France tnousn tne ins,.u,ions
NAV republican, the ideas and morals are not rePnD-
Ican but the ideas aud morals are preVaiingy repuD
Iican also. They are those OF PLAIN decent mldie
o. tue people Is the ideal OF sucn class In France the
Ideal of the mass Q; popular journalists .na pop1lsr
instructors there, s II you could see their hearts POM
psd9nr or Du Bfy [ wn nm, v lSr se OF %
objects Tor which wealth Is desirable the Iossessoso.
wealth become hateful to tue multitude which tolls and
endures society 10 undermined. This Is one OF tue
many inconvenieDces which the French nave 10 sufer
which 'I taev aT AZ present vowed Wealth exces tho
most savage enmity there, because 1t Is conceived
means for gratifying appetites of the most selfish and
vile kind But IN America Faublas Is no more the IDEAL
than Corolanu-. Wealth IL no more conceived a. ne
minister to the pleasures OF class OF raSes tnan a. tho
minister 10 the magnn'ence or class Oh hoph's IL IS
conceived as tlne wnicn almost any Aneucsn may
attain. aud which almost every American VIII use
respectfully. It's possession. therefore, does not Inspire
hated and so return to the thesis Win ~9Tc a dysa
and poor il alleged To Us as cale of evo-
AZ eIsewherei and YET We see that this cause not
there in truth the characters to which we are
accustomed.
LIVING IN A NATURAL CONDITION.
A people Homogeneous. people which had to const.
tute itself in modern age an rppch OF expansion ana
which given Itself iD-tituons ehtiIeD Htri Tor
such an ace AMI epoch and when SUIT IL petieotIy-a
people not ia danger OF from without not In danger
revolution from wiihin-su Is the people OF ho
we must surely allow that they solve successfully
Tuere remains know. tue human problem also; tns
solution Of that mas to be considered; hut shan
come TO that hereafter My point at preset Is, that
politically and social the Unhei Staes are eomni.
IA natural condition. And being IN tns Aealtny case.
there a use its unier:,andns with the soanines 81
health general its otcs AMI ,oei concerns
straight. them clear so th, when sir Henry
Name and w. scherer tell Us tina, denocrac, Is merely
form OF government We may ob-erye u them that u
Is IN the United states form OF government IA whlcn
the Community feels Itself in natural condition ami AZ
eaSe in which. consequently it secs things straight AMI
More tnan naf ones interest in watching the English
people OF the Uni state. coIes OF eo.r,e ron Tue
among H. English people ourselves IN these Islands
in the condition OF the sEngilsh srace IN he
United states. had sall beforehand indeel, that
supposed the American Phistine was yelier sort 81
Phstne thai ours, because lie had not that pressure u
the Barbarns Ia stunt and distort him which be Ats us
this superior liz eness and naiuraness Of condition. in
the OF that pressure would carry The American
does in fact seem yet to suit tue bulk Of tho
community there. suits the strong central body
OF tho community But ia mouth the name "a
bar lily rcprOach. so clearly do sec TIE Phiiistnes
necessity 50 willingly own his merits 50 much mud
Of "a in ulX-e ~,
certainly FAR more different from his m si,h sroer
than had beforehand supposed Ana on That difference
We English Of old country with great pront turn
regards for awhile. and am now gong 10 SPEAK OF
surely there Is thing than another which all
the world is saying OF our community at present ana o.
which the truth cannot well be- dlsiu cd thls- mat
VIC act like people who do not thna straight ana see
clear. know that the Liberal ne~spApes used 10 pe
clear. manly Intelligence. penetrating through
sophSns isnot ,hr tr xIe Hany vrn so took
alarm at seeing The DAILY Aews aud me Morning siar,
iron for tue uddle class aud bidding 1t 60 up and rus
peri and my trst efforts IL writer on uOic matters
Imlah NV protest against these misleading assurances
of false prophets And though Often ana often
severed; aud at the Royal Institution SAID dow We
seemed TO FOUNDER aud TO beat the ar; ad 81
ut now everybody Is really saying OF us the same thns'
tha, we fnmne because we cannot make mind.
and that we ,nnot make up mind do not
what Ia be after II our foreign poey Is not tat
OF {" tho British Phlsne with his likes aud dskes lis
ed son and confusion. his hot ana cold hs hls Ant OF
dignity and OF the seadlastness which comes from aug
nifty his ant OF ideas and Of the steaifatness whi5h
comes deas then all the world AZ me present tlue
is il must be owned, very much mistaken =. =.
Let us not therefore speak or foreign ahars' -
needless because the thing wish TO show Is 40 nniest
there to everybody. But We VIII eonsdet hssis ~
home Let take IN; present state oi the House Oh
Commons Can anything be more com, SEA. more ,, I'm
natural That assembly has got into coudtou ultery
sed mpOtent To briDg Itself flgut
The emDers the House themselves may nEd enter
lnuent m the personal incidents which such state OF
conf uslOn bring forth aoundany ana excite
ment Ia the opportunities thus often Afforded ior uo
ncns Englisulnan outside the House the spectacies
simply aillcting aud Illuminating one tue senss
nr.,.e INV h n moi desht at Mr. GlastOnes