Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-03
PHASES OF LONDON LIFE
LOW THE AMERICAN COLONY
o0tsGHOWN IN POPULARITY.

GROWN IN POPULARITY.
IAN From the United States Are the
vt Beautiful in European Cities
- who Are Well Known in New
York.
Tho American colony has become a
.,ninent feature of London society, ob-
Piarved George w. SmaIley to a CORES
rdant of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
thin the last ten years. American
nn,en. as everybody knows, are consid-
va n he among the most beautiful to be
sasn abroad, and they are something more
han beautiful. The secret, or one secret
tho nosition they have taken in London
0ociety. is their originality. They have
49, oharm which springs from freshness,
,-om Individuality, from intellectual
,,iokness. They say brilliant things in
hr,lliaut way, and they don't feel bound
- ACCEPT English standards or conform
~ rnglish conV entionalitIes. They have
manner of their own. An English
.soman who herself had more Wit and
o,,I+nr4 than belongs to the average, said
I'm trankness of the American women:
,.Tnpro is no use Of denying that the best
nj them beat u.s."
american women, continued MIR. Small
1ov are very popular IN London. Mrs.
lanes Brown Potter has had by far the
greatest success In the shortest TIME OF all
tbe American women who have come
tbore The beginning OF her renown there
Los luncheon at Mrs. Mahlon Sands
We're Mrs. Potter gave some recitatlOns
,rhjch the Prince OF Wales heard. He mad
,nat her once before at the Caledonia bail
hmtthis was the first time that he had lis
.o~od to her recitatlOns. From that time
nitwas ante understood that wherever
tba Prince of W ales went he expected to
wet Mrs. Potter. London society is pc
crltar in this respect. There Is always
snnebOdv VINO, IL is considered, must be
invited whenever the Prince OF W ales is
invited. For awhile, as you know, it was
Niss Chamberlain, of Cleveland. Mrs.
Potter was the star of the last half of the
Iast Landon season. She and her recita-
lions we're both greatly admired. She left
behind as brilliant reputation as any
woman WHO has ever been over there.
~Deaking of the sOcialIstlc movement,
Mr. Smaley SAYS that it has no substan-
tai bottom. 1t has no leadership, or
rather there Is no strong leader VINO has
come to the front. Hyndman is their
only educated man, university gradu-
ate. good writer, man OF considerable
rnetorical power, but with total lack of
ANYTHING like practical capacity and with
mo practicable policy. He is the only
man in the socialistic movement whose
name was ever heard of or who
aver had position before he became
associated with it. John Burns,
VINO is next to Hyndman, was an
engineer, and is an agitator of the eX-
IRENE type. Neither Burns, Champion,
Williams nor any of the others whose
names have been prominent in newspa-
pers in connection with socialistlc move
ments in London has shown much other
ability than that or making violent
speeches and collecting mobs in the
streets of London. The sOcialistic meet
ings are largely attended by the rOughs
Of the East End. who flock together in the
hope of a row and an opportunity for
plumber. | attended the great Trafalgar
square meeting, and went all through
ii. Eight out of ten of the men were
ready to pick the pockets of the
other two ii they had chance. The other
two had very little in their pockets to be
picked. This reminds me OF the great
distress among the poor people OF London.
1t was very great last winter, and will be
very great this winter. Arnold White,
one OF the youn men who is becoming
we'll kuONu as d up1IDlHOA WIN bAS
poorer classes, told me that there are al
ways 10000 men in London between
whom and starvation there is only &
pence, and that there are 100000 with
Only couple of shillings.
The socialistlc movement in England
Is quite distinct from the labor move
ment That has been O trades union
movement. 1t has been a great success
in spite of great obstacles. The leaders
most wisely Kept The movement out of
politics. They have carefully refused to
90 into politics except TO secure the pass
age of some law relating to labor matters.
They have never allowed the trades
unions to be put up at auction. No
political party, as party, has ever had
their support. They have not been en-
gagged in an effort for eternal justice, but
merely to get for themselves a greater
and capital. That is thoroughly
English - they leave the idea
to take care OF itself. They have kept
perfectly clear OF politics on the one
hand aud perfectly clear OF the Socialists
on the other. In this way they have made
great advances and secured large con-
cessiOns for labor. The Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers of this country is
the best American analogue of the trades
union movement in England. / under
Stand the brotherhood has had nothing 10
90 with politics, and has, therefore, had
lne sympathy and announcement of the
American people, which other movements
nave lost by departing from these funda-
mental maXims