The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-10
THE OLD ORDER CHANGES |
Is The TITLE OF MALL0CK'S
LAST NOVEL.
In Which the Radical Chief Of Bir-
mingham, Joe chamberlain, Is the
HerO-A Savage LampOOn.


a sensation. All the clubs-thos9
cluts that have member yet remain
ing in town waiting on The pleasure
of Pa,liament-and all the country
houses are talking Of it. Everybody is
identifying the principal characters-a
task easy eiough, for the book s no. a
novel in reality, but personal politi-
cal satire-and Mr.. Chamb ,rlain, the
victim-in-chief, has Just started for 3
lection, foamiDg, il is said, at the thin
lips, and almost crunchirg his eye glass
in the fiercsues OF his frowr. Mr.
Chamberlain, who states he is in dread
OF a. assassination, has taken with him
an inspector of Birmingham psi ca,
who is TO accompany him everywhere
on his travels. Thie affords the wsgs
q chance for q weak jIke. They say
with AR y hencef nth personally con-
Quoted tours will go out of fashion 10
favor Of police protected ones
The chief clticature in the book is
that of Mr.. chamberlain, who is Ii
heled under the rame of Mr.. Jephet
Snapper Next to him Mr.. Hyndman,
the socialist, is the most prominent
parsonage of those lampooned. The
he,o is vspid, selfih aud tiresome
aristocrat-he stands for nobody in
particular, but is M. Malock's ideal.
| have no fondness for Mr. Chamber
lain. In fact, don't like him at all.
Ny, to BE- quite frank, / have VIC
lent antipatny to him. But this at,
tack is so mean, coarse and unjust
that amost fsel ike defending the
assas in of Mr.. Gladstone's home rule
bill Mr.. Cbamb arlain, who appoint
ment to the Cabinet Mr.. Mallock calls
a rottsn egg fling in the face Of civil
zltion, is thus discussed in conve sa-
ton between two ladies. Tho mention
of his name, we are told, see ned to
affect them as if it were some disagree
able smell.
"That mani" exclaimed Miss Mil
dred. Zone can hardly bear to think
OF him"
II am afraid" said Mrs. Harley,
laughing, "that you and | and all OF
us shall be obliged to think Of him
so IL Mr.. S lspper, MILDRED, is the
future Prime Minister of Englsnd."
"Mercy! !" said Miss Elfrida, with
quiet but contemptuous gravity. "We
have sunk low enough, but we have
hardly come yet to that. Fancy man
who in public lives by denouucing
gentlemen aud in private does nothing
but vainly struggle to initiate them !"
Eyes" added Miss Mildred; "and
all be succeeds in doirg is to make
himself look like a swell outside
one of Charley 8 comic songs. Really,
Evelyn, wonder how you can bring
yourself to know such people"
"Of course the man Is not gentle
man." goss on Miss Alfrida again. "a
gentleman may forget the people or
offer them stones for bread. It is only
men like Snapper who will at empt to
coax them with poison"
In the course of this interesting con.
versation Mr. Chamberlain is described
as bru'al tyIant to the EMPLOYEES in
his actory in Birmingham [ B.rChes-
teri, and it is wondered how he can
have the face to pretend 10 put lie that
he is the ftiend and champion of the
poor anu Tue Oppretbeu.
1--WE have seen him, ss it we're.
when he thought no one was looking
remarks smother of these amiabe
lsdies. eve have seen him in the
light not of what be recommends for
the poor, but of what he does for
them. He has bought tevera streets
Of workmen's houses in Bircbes or,
and / am not speaking at random
when tell you this-that there is
mere squalor, more overcrowdiDg,
more rack-rentingo on his property than
in any other part of the town"
He has, assure you, no objection
to cbes," Gays another lady.
81 should have said 10 gentlemen,
the upper CLASSES, the arlstocracy," re-
torled Miss Elfrida, "He hates them
more than he loves the poor."
cater all he is on!y human, and
when one thinks of the way in which
he hes been treated in London-the
snubs be has had from all the fee lads
AID ladies-the even worse snubs he
has had from stufy old country gem
tlemen- my dear Elfrida, if you had
seen him as have done, biting his
lip at dinner and wincing at the way
he was-well treated by some people
ss if h9 were one of the fnotmen.
Here ia a remark, to conclude there
extracts with, about the Radical party
in general: each one of them with
his little horde Of personal bitterness,
carries the ecowl of the bsfileG or
hopeless toady under the pastebosrd
M SIX tf the vaptd, emirking philan-
thropitt. The desire of Mr.. Japhet
Snapper to rob the gentlemen of their
position is simply fermentation Of
his desire to lick their shoes"
am far from saying that there is no
truth in all this. Indeed, from my
own knowledge of many very loud
voiced English Radicals, l am con-
strained to say that there are many
hairs of truth woven through the NOR
tar of the lie 90 uss a phrase of Col.
Ingersolls), More than this, think
have even written things myself in
these columns which would go } show
that / would not be at all out OF sym
patty with an earnest Castigator of the
sham Democrats and real snohs,
grovelers, tyrants and power worship
ers to be found in the ranks Of the
Radical party in England. But Mr..
Mallock's attack on Mr.. Chamberlain
is, all the same, mainly lie. Tnat it
is brutal and paltry can be seen from
the few extracts above quoted. 1t
might be shown to be even paltrier
ptill il it were worth taking up space
with the various remarks on "the up
START" Snapper's dress, what servants
said about him, how he was taken for
an undertaker's man, how he looked
more like bairdIesser than gentle
man, and 80 forth. All Of which only
serves to bring out before the readers
Disguised gas the fact that the writer
the author of The Ney Republic
lis a more thorough paced, more aC-
Iimonious, more d shonest, more con-
temptible snob, tosdy and lickspittle
than the man he is 80 bitterly libeling
This discovery is quite enough TO
spoil for the time being your apprecia-
ton Of whatever other things there
may be in book from which you had
hoped for something 30 very different.
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