Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-23
DEPEW'S GREAT GRAFTON
Doesn't Add to the Britisher's Peace
of Mind a Little Bit.
THE CARMAUI STRIKE QUIETED
While u. Loubet Tries to Find Out Who Is
to ELAINE for the Trouble.
LOypOyS UNEMPLOYED DEMAND WORK
rBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. ]


LONDON, Oct 22-[CopyrighA behold
John Bull in blue funki He read last
week about the glories of New York's
Columbus celebration to-day. He has read
Chauncey Depew's great speech at Chicago.
Now, John Bull can be patronizingly ap-
preciative and complimentary in his estl-
mate of alien greatness only up to certain
point. As soon as he perceiyes that the
achievements of others have transcribed
his own, his mood changes. This we'll
known trait in his character was never
better exemplifed than it has been to-day.
His native and almost petulent comments
upon the American rejoicings make the
most amusing exhibition Of wounded vanity
and envy.
The feeling has struck so deep that there
is even a certain spite against poor Colum-
bus because he discovered America Thus,
the very ink looks green when the Times,
in burst of Jealous sarcasm, declares that
Mr. Depew's Grafton "e1plains in detail
the nature and extent of the debt which the
world owes to its two greatest benefactors,
to Columbus and to the United States"
Some Sarcasm for DIR. Depew.
1t THANKS the orator in mock humility for
his kind words for other persons and other
countries "who can put forward no such
claims upon the general gratitude OF man
kind"
With greatest difidence the same journal
suggests that Mr.. Depew may not have
been quite Just in his historical revie W, and
it apologies for having attempted to esti-
mate in some degree the vastness and sig
nifcance of the coming exhibition, task
which Mr.. Depew says demands a celestial
intelligence.
Then comes the Daily Telegraph in a very
palsy of envy, which it tries in vain to con-
ceal 1t solemnly compares our own Chaun-
cey to Cicero in personal appearance, but
affirms that the Latin orator must take q
back seat after this. ITO follow Mr.. Depew
in his daring career through the centuries
with the historical conscience" it says,
"wouId be to hitch criticism to a comet
BE sweeps them all aside to come to Co.
umbus. and from Columbus to Chicago
1t one stroke he crowds Chicago above
Jerusalem, then Rome, and all our effete
modern cities
An Insinuation That Means Blood.
The complimentary allusion to England
is resented and is met with the unkind sug-
gestion that nobody better than Mr..
Depew could have told his fellow-country-
men of the social perils which menace
their magnificent prosperity and of the vast
and difficult civic questions which are
slowly arising to try the solidity of their
institution.
Finally, with fine scorn, the disgruntled
editor remarks that Mr.. Depew was quite
right in thinking that the occasion ''pre'
cluded admonition, modesty or sober coun.
sells, and the opinion is expressed that il
Chicago cannot, with the aid of this won
derful speech, command success, it will bs
strange indeed.
The Americans in London are watching
John Bulls resentful discontinue with ar
amused magnanimity. That the critics o
all creation should find themselves criti
cised, even by implication, rankles deep.