New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-21
ENGLISH JOURNALISM.
THE PAIL MALL GAZETTE AND MR.
ASTOR MR. LABOUCHERE AS
CATO A GOOD MIS-
PRINT

Mr. Gladstones resignation. none is more fre-
quent thar the reference to its American owner
ship. Ncre is thought more damaging by those
who inhict It, Call it an Anglo-American journal
and YOU have damned it to all eternity. At
tribute its errors to American methods Of journal
ism. and you have made them odious Invent
pun on Mr. Astor's name and you sufficiently
confute his editor. Mr.. Aston has, believe, no
more to do with the editing OF the paper IMAM
you have. The editor is Mr.. Gust Conservative
NJ. p for Stamford; a capable and ambitious
amateur, with a frs: lieutenant in the person OK
Mr. Muller. late of Manchester, trained jour-
nalist Rut as neither Of these is American, it Is
more convenient and effective to abuse the pro-
nretor "Ex-America semper aliquid novi,"
shriels 'The Chronicle" It's emotions too deep
for ADEQUATE expression in the English tongue
AS q rule II Is your English Radical who
shows himself most hostile to what Is American;
well Knowing that with what Is best In Amen-
can political life he has little in common But
the Conservative, too cries out now ana theh III;
his most superior tone. do not know whe'her
you will be so bold as to let your readers KNOW
that THE ST. Jamess Gazette In Its SNUG
wav nrofesses itself unable to reprint your ac-
count OF the Corbett- Mitchell fight. The account
shocks Mr. Stenkopfs sense OF propriety Xe~
and this is to add sting to his condemnation oh
your improprieties-he tells his readers that me
Tribune is a journal Of high standing, TOT the
States" Perhaps 1 am wrong IN using MI
Steinkopfs name / really do not know whether
he is still owner Of this journal. IL he BE- IL Is
probably a breach Of professional etiquette u
refer 70 him. or it would have been a breach be-
fore Mr. Aston became owner OF It's rlVal' ana
therefore the object of all kinds Of personal at
tacxs If there Is 10 be etiquette. II ought
~ be good for both sides. II the English fhari-
SEQ may hold up his hands in horror at MT.
Astor. why is Mr.. Stenlopf to be exempt from
mention in a journal Of high standing lot inc
States? Besides, it IS a compliment 10 ME-
Stenkopf. There IS, in all this Sticking lot inc
ororv,oous = certain amount, | do not say OF
hvpocrisv. but Of more or less unconscious IN
sincerity.
If not II we are to look at reasons, because OK
the immunity which the Individual may claim 50
lon, as he Is anonymous. IL Is because 'io
journal desires TO maintain the impression ol
authority which springs from its collectVe iih-
rorsonalitv. It represents more than any indi-
yidual can represent. Its judgments nave 'ho
weight Of accumulated experiences, and OF a repu-
tation which is the growth Of years VIII taKa
the strongest possible case; that OF the Times
u,der the editorshp Of Delane. To the day OK
his death Delane remained to the majority OF
the readers of that paper an unknown parsonage
II YOU had quoted opinion on critlcai suo-
iect as the opinion OF Mr. Delane, 1t would nave
had little influence and no authority. IL you
quoted it as the opinion OF Ihe lifHeS
swayed mems minds al once. For IL was hho"n
~ have all the authority inherited from long
ard successful past and all the importance at
,achirg to the considered judgment, not OF De'
lane only but Of Delane as editor OF Aha
Times" The editor, speaking not Tor hifhse11
H., IfranfA
only but for the great journal he directeu' io'
his colleagues for his public. ard ofteh ior inc
body Of public men, includlhS Ndo''ee '
,,,ors and the Prime Minister himself, witni
whom he was in daily consultation. Inc Cl'y OF,
London and the financial world had mana mi
,,.,,irg or in framing this opinion. The Roth-I
ccbids and Balings had been advised Win.
rvcrv great interest at home and abroad hao
,oo, tolen into account, and sometimes into
~, confidence of the editor. The Foreign Ofhces
or tho Continent were tributary TO The Times
Commerce and industry were OF couhsei 40
printing House Square Delane conlroIeu a''A
directed all this machinery and II was WIZ.
hin, that the relations between the paper anu
m, outside world were carried on. lie Was
= stron,, man: ,ncomparabiy the first European
oditor Of his time. But where woula 'ne eui'or
h.. II he had no paper 70 edit? The tru'h -
narodoxical though it may seem, that the ma
chime was greater than the great HAN "'''
Guided and governed its motions
/ Ono ~ th, heroes OF the hour Is MT Hc'ouS'
..,.. bocl, from South Africa and from the
Matabclc campaign, in when the H"sn'S ''''.No'
,..,., considerable fame as n soldier. | imagine
however. thai the English Ike nm pest 4o' ''''
oy,,oi,s agains, elephants and lions ana other
hie ramc not human. skill with the THO anu
courag. IN the pursuit of dangerous ahifnais
hoo
beart. and still are, let people say Wha' they
will ,hout the degeneration Of the manly spirit
/ In This and other nations l don't believe IL mas
+ deoono-ated The history Of African eNplora-
ton for the last quarter of a century IS PROOF
enough thai it has not; and Africa is far rom
being the only country which has been "l'Nes'
I, the valor and determination OF a whole army
/ OF extraordinary men. Livingstone Is DEAD anu
Burton is dead, and Baker. and he VINO STANDS
far above them all. Gordon But the race mas
not died out. Stanley, at any rate, Is hVihs'
aud Johnston and Lugard. and II is rot many
/ G1vs sine, one OF the most gallant and capape
/ ~ the whole company. Sir Gerald Portal. yielded
M his life 1t is not fair 20 MI Seous To men,
tom his name in competition with men OF
quite different stamp and with FAR higher aims.
But Mr. Seous has merits OF his own, ana ne
has this further merit that he has come IN ior
no small share Of the miserable calumnles Oh
which Mr. Iaboucherc has made himself the
mouthpiece when they were not of his own
fabrication.
II you mention NJ Cecil Rhodes or the Char
tered Company. or anybody who has anything
to do with either TO Mr.. Labouchere, he loans
at the mouth. He owns that his sympathies
are with the Matabele. There never lived
more cruel race They practised upon their
ncighbors all. and ten times more than all the
ferocitics of which Mr. Labouchere accuses MS
countrymen He has 10 good evidence; lor
some Of his accusations he has no evidence at
ALL some have been completely disproved dill
cult il is TO prove negative. But he does
not retract: he goes repeating stale, DIS
credited dsproved charges as II by dint OF mere
| repetition he hoped % convince himself ana 10
! 4.,n,.nrt othn.a - rnsn.Nns only his sym.