New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-02
THE ENGLISH MANNER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THEIR v,vus
OF MIR. BAYARD IN LONDON AND
FROM THE ENGLISH IN BERLIN


London. May "a
The ranks Of Captain Mahans euloetsts a..
now recruited by the DAILY telegram" uh,..
refers to him as that brilliant writer who a..
taught us the influence Of Sea Power unon ~,
tory" But this to the journal which has NJ,
1.-THE largest circulation in the world" ..sr.
sufficient and perhaps ~. 1t serves in fact a.
text to a long and friendly article unon ~.
official representatives who from time to time ar.
accredited by the United States to the Court a,
St. James The text may be new: the sermon
IS only new because 1t is brought down To da,.
and includes the present-who is also the first
American Ambassador Mr.. Bayard. or him. ON,
friend with the large circulation speaks cordially
and justly, yet at moments in terms which
had they been those Of an American newspaper
might have been rebuked as American BY the
more austere practitioners Of proprety in Great
Britain. Among them, perhaps. this particua,
journal is not to be reckoned. since with all its
ability and It's extraordinary popular success II
seems TO set less store than some others by some
OF those characteristics which the writing Bri,oo
considers pre-emnenty II not exclusively his
Simplicity of style. reserve, and other similar
qualities are to be sought elsewhere than IN the
DIT To the simple IL prefers the ford, and re-
serve gives way to a large expansiveness Of
method which the unfriendly critic has been
known to describe as gush But the unfrendly
critic almost always exaggerates. The sentence
had In mind is this:
I'm appearance. culture and manner Mr.
Thomas F. Bayard is one Of the most favorable
specimens OF American citizenship that the great
Republic has ever sent across the Atlantic"
Kindly meant. no doubt, and. in point OF fact
true. but with just that suspicion Of patronage
which the American resents perhaps most Of all
when he hears II from Englishman. 1t Is
| probablv unconscious; the EnglIshman is not
aware or is only half aware Of his habit OF re-
garding those parts Of the Universe which lie
| outside these islands as If his own post Of OBJ
seryation were one Of elevation. Sometimes In
| very marked circumstances he does seem aware
| that he takes the superior tone. and that the
req, Of the world does not like being addressed
IN the superior tone. There is in to-day's Spec
tator" which Is capable Of detached views an
instructive remark on what has been happening
in Berlin this week The English, We are told
have met with their customary fate. They are
in a majority in the International Conference OF
Miners which has been held in the German capt.
tai Because they were In majority they
thought themselves entitled and indeed bound
to carry things with high hand They claimed
the craftsmanship. not once nor twice but every
day. The representatives OF the rest OF the
Universe there assembled were so unreasonable
as 70 resent this claim and hnally even 70 resi-"
it. Says the Spectator:
THE Germans Austrians Frenchmen and
Belgans admit that their English brothers man.
| age business admirably. give valuable informa.
| ton and will do practical good, but they nna
| them intolerable all the same. Iney are al
fronted with English arrogance and Enghsn IN
| difference 10 ideas, ana even s'!ie e"e" N'"'
servatve hypocrites
And after a display. first Of patience, winch
the English thought proper suomissveness'
| and then OF irritation which was borne Win as
rroreirners' folly" the Germans. Austfans,
Frenchmen. and Belgians made themselves un-
derstood. even through the difficult medium OF
nolvelot protestatons They ousted the English
chairman Mr. Wilson; by means, 10 adopt ano
odant the Language Of Mr. Bayards eulogist' one
~ the most favorable specimens OF Enshsn
citizenship that the great Empire has ever sent
ecrcas the North German Ocean. IL he be some
,ho- NJ Wilson than the one suppose,
hos,e, % epologize TO either who may tmA
o,,,o,, necessary. But this Mr. Wilson dia
c,oar,,. mako himself odous 10 the assembled IN
,o-,at,o,al conference: and was. after scene,
sunnlanted by A Frenchman. and the cause Oh
International brotherhool Was "''
And the spectator saws:
IT, is curious considering how cam our S'aa.
tr,,-nan are that this impression OF their Siss'
greea bleness should cling u them eve': ,,sI,
and nullify the respect galheu oy - nao,sslv ,hs
Indians or Americans would DING pleCSs'' ~
same charges as the Continental Ihl"eis W.
~. rrdians are meant. presume no, those OF
North America but the TWO or three nuhurea
Il
nen,nsula Of Uindostan. l don't Ike 70 Turn
r,,,,d ., rho authority am quoting and the less
c, because the spectator is almost AWAY.
friendly and sometimes just 10 America a..
Americans. But II It were an enemy VINO "a'
said this thing. might have asked WI! "'''
cans are bracketed with the dusKy ia'e. -
the great Indian dependency OF 'H''
Dire The writer Of the seN'e"Ne ~
imagine an Englishman who spent many
in India and knows all about H. ne N"o"
and think Il was only last week ne p'o'.'.s.
against the habit-that the department VI ~
English 10 the Indians is. or often mas oee' '
as no white man in Europe or IN America W."
endure Hindoos and Musselmans ana INC ~,
have a grievance against the EngIsh Oh |" ""
very different from surprising we na'e
grievance The demeanor OF the Briton III o
thorty In that distant land Is not very u'''n ~.
dcmeanor of the American white man vs.
American negro: in the days OF American ''a.u
and since. His language is the same, VI ~,
liar This ofrshoot Of a race OF YESTERDAY, s',
hardly thousand years Of history pen'"'
speaks Of and to the tawny Oriental whose aH.s.
tors were princes some thousands OF yea's 'S,,,,.
Britain was discovered and annexed 70 CIV,
ton. as damned niger" And then he =,
ders why he and his Indian fellow-su0's .,.,
not get on better together; why they snou'0
10 mutiny. and what the 'impudent Dess"
mean by smearing mango-trees with "h''e '..-,
all through Behar and the other Nor"'"''
provinces. $4,000. Az.
II any Englishman. which is in the hisne'' =.
gree improbable should read what al"
ing-improbable because an American he"sr, N
is seldom seen and still more seldom looke' o..
England-he would certainly set all '" ard
ment down to American sensuVehes'' ana,
thank God, or some other Deity, once n'O .,.,,,
he is not so thin-skinned as these p ~.