New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-20
NOTES FROM LONDON.
MR.. CARNEGIE AS POLITICAL cRlTic-sAl~
WALTON ARMY-HILLS JOHNSON
AVN urrME-BINDING.

sv.eu rwr pssuIAn CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBussa
London. January 8.
Mr.. Carnege's letter in censure upon recent
offence of mine invites comment, though am i"A
from wishing to talk politics In this column, Inere
are notifies and to spare in others. But mr.
f,arnepie like the good Scotehman he is, or was
soes not like 10 see the Scotch Home Rule move
n,cnt mentioned as one Of the influences tending
70 break up the British Empire. should be glad
m obliee him by saying that it is not. but
cannot He seems 10 me TO avoid meeting one OF
the strong points against his view. Inc ScoIch
Home Rulers who wrote to NJ. Gladstone de-
scribed their movement as a movement 10 fes'oi"
self-governrnent TO Scotland. In ike manner
clamored the Southern States which seeded. OF
tried to secede, from the Union in 1861. Ihey'
too, wanted self-government; in their sense Sucn
phrase in the mouths of these Scotehmen can only
mean as said, the repeal OF the Act OF Union Vi
1901 They do not limit their aspirations lhey
do not sneak of local self-government They
want IN see Scotland once more an independent
KINGDOM. If they do not want that, they use
words very loosely In any case, they must DC
iudped bv the words they USE and not by those
which MIR. Carnegie may think they ought to have
used
am losing, says Mr.. Carnegie, my faith in the
Federal idea ] do not think SO, but admit that
/ am losing--i i ever had Tiny faith in slovenly
political ANAL gicS 1t is easy to say that Scotn'no
and Ireland and Wales ought TO have each the same
rights which an American State has. VIII not
stop TO ask why they ought The one pont Oh
which Mr.. Carnegie takes issue is the effect Home
Rula according TO what he thinks the American
State pattern, would have on the integrity Oh tne
British Empire lie insists that the Empire would
be strengthened That is matter of opinion and
of prophecy He may be right Prophets some
times are All 1 wish to press upon him, and upon
Others who agree with him. is that he and they
are proposing TO break up the British Empire as
il exists and has long existed and to put togetner
a new one Their new one may be better ana
stronger than the old; or it may not. In either
case il will be o new The question between
us is not what he supposes He is not 1or tne
Empire as it u.s. He is for another. He Is him.
self one of the influences that actively at work
TO disintegrate the existing political fabric lie
IS not satisfied with it, He wants to improve IL
And to improve il, be would begin by pulling II
10 pieees He would break with the past lie
quotes and requotes the American States and their
relation to the National Government lie would
adapt that system as his model fo- Great Britain
and Ireland History Is against him. The Amerl-
ran States were separate and independent and
sovereign They surrendered each some part OF
their rights to form union, to provide Tor COM
mon defence and for other good and sufficient and
.wel-lxnown reasons No wiser act was ever done
But where is the analogy between this act and the
proposal TO split empire into fragments In order
10 federate the fragments? The Federal principle
implies the pre-existence of distinct communities
each independent There none such in the British
Empire. Whether there ought to be or not is not
the question. We have to deal with things as they
are And with things as they are. there is no room
for the application Of the Federal idea and no
analogy, not even the remotest. to be drawn from
the American Commonwealth.
The Progress of the Salvation Army is the
title Of o paragraph in to-days papers. The lat
est progress" have is its tiaring pacard
over the Oxford-st outpost" If that be the
right name 1 respectfully ask the compositor
TO gradate his capitals according to the original
thus:
TWO DAYS WITH GOD