New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-19

myself TO the lowest point that the most un-
principled could possibly sink TO If were 10
recede from the position TO which am bouna ny
the struggle of the last few years Not only
that, but when entrcated to consider his ATTITUDE
he replied: My position is entirely unchange-
able" 1t is glimpse of Mr.. Gladstone at his
best Of the Gladstone of other days They put
the matter to him in the plainest words. "You
are throwing away votes" He would
not be shaken. Il will raise no en-
pectations I cannot fulfil. / can say
more. appeal to my life. appeal to what
have hitherto vowed as my duty to the industrial
classes, putting them in the position OF standing
up for their rights, and ! say that whao
little future have you must judge Of by the past
IL is honorably and noby said The interview
took the form of conversation. MIR. Gladstone,
it need not be said; treated his guests with that
courtesy he shows TO all. There was not
word from him which was not civil ana
friendly. So much the more evident was
it that these gentlemen who undertake TO regulate
the industrial affairs Of kingdom were as baoes
in his hands. 1t is their question: 1t has never
been specially his: but he knew more about it.
of the facts and arguments, than all the dele
CATION together. His questions pierced through
all the shams and forced from their reluctant lips
every admission he wanted for his purpose. IL
was Socrates come to life again, with the same
smooth profession of knowing nothing and ending
by proving TO his friends that il is they who know
nothing. The report fills some three columns IN
the papers. II is long since they have published
anything SO entertaining or In its own way so
admirable.
The delegates departed; we are told, incensed.
They threaten TO run one hundred labor candidates
all over the Kingdom, not with, but against the
IIoI.. lo G1oIo mn
aehast, thinks his leader reckless, rash, and
know not what else so do the fanatics Of the
womens Rights party because he will not cast
in his lot entirely with them. II is just possible
that ii will appear in the end that Mr. Gladstone
knows his own business Whatever clse he may
be he is the shrewdest electioneering agent In
Great Britain.
Mr.. John Morley, who in economy as In politics
is doctrnairc 10 his finger tips. bolds mp bis
hands in horror at Lord Salisburys reciprocity
Guggcstous Sec what happened" cries Mr..
Gladstone lieutenant. The American Protection
lists at once broke out into a chorus of jubation'
To be approved by Americans Is to the
Gladstonian mind the final evidence OF
Tory wlckcdncss "What sort Of language do
American rrotcctionist newspapers use, exclnin.
Mr. Morley. Well it il not the sort Of Ian
gnage7 hc himself uscs II would have been all
right il they had said OF Lord Salisbury what
Mr.. Morley says OF his opponents, that they are
silly, ridiculous, gracclcss, childish. idle, abomin-
able All this because they crticis~ Mr.. Glad
stone. However, il is The Tribune which Mt
Morley singles out using the sort OF language
which he condemns Your offence was 10 say that
lit is not every day that an English Prime Min
iscr proclaims Free Trade 10 be a failure, ana
reciprocity on American lines q sound bu-lnese
policy lie has discovered. too that the Amerl-
can Free Trade organs are dismayed. They
will be still more dismaycd when they
read Mr. Morlcy's simple-mlnded confession that
IL Great Britain has interest more than an
other IL Is that countries Ike France aud the
United States should sce the error OF their
economic WAYS" Precisely Open your market
10 British manufacturers with English labor at
half the American price, and the British Will
soon ruin the Americans. But VIE used 10 be
told that American Protection was boon 10
Great Britain. and that with Free Trade America
would become a formidable competitor TO Eng
land The Free Traders Of England and America
may he left 10 reconcile these two opinions as
best they can
The appointment Of lord ITanncn as onr OF the
British arbitrators in the Bchrns Sea business may
bc taken as in one scrsc "A compliment TO America.
England, tIdt Is, tHOp-f7 oUt VI H't 'tiA "''HN
indres and man of really judicial mind. lie
will NOT like Lord Chief Justice Cockbum In the
Geneva arbitration, turn himself into the counsel
for Great Britain. Nobody ever doubted his abil-
ity. his honor, his entire impartiaity. There may
have been people who pretended to while he pre-
sided over the Parncll Commission; they dropped
the pretcnce when il had served lis purpose, and
when the report Of the Commission had made II
ridiculous. He will do what can bc done 70 keep
his somewhat restless Canadian collcaQ que in order.
Sir John Thompson is not much known here, but
rather too well known 10 you as an intemperafe
partisan who has more than once shown himself
"a fircbrand. The Bchring Sea arbitration is not
topic Of interest in England at this moment There
i, a provincial notion in this country that England
must get the worst of any arbitration whatever,
so that except with philosophers or peace fanatics,
arbitration in itself is not popular.
The rumors Of sale of the Althorp Library. often
heard often contradictcd, are at last confirmed.
Lord Spcn ;cr has put the better part OF this
matchlcss collection in Mcssrs. Sothebys hands
TO dispose of, if they can, as whole; If not TO
disperse by auction next year. The whole library
contains perhaps toward one hundred thousand
titles and at least four or five thousand OF the
very highest order of excellence The portion
Lord Spencer sells comprises the contents OF the
square room at the south end Of Althorp House,
all that gives the library its immense fame. The
rest of the books, filling most Of the rooms on
the same floor, are of no special
value Foreign libraries like the Due dAnmalc's or
the late Baron James de Rothschild's and Others,
NAV be left out Of the comparison. There Is not
and there never has been in England any private
collection Of books equal to this or comparable
TO this It is rich in block books, in early Bibles.
in incunabua of all the most precious kinds, includ-
ing most Of the most famous first editions OF
the Greek and Latin classics. 1t has more than
500 Aldines it has tifty-seven Caxtons, more than
the British Museum itself, if duplicates are not
counted in. II has treasures the mere mention
Of which would fill the whole Of your page They
arc "a a rule in AS good condition as the Sunder-
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