New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-09

TATIONs-LORD SALISBURY-THE
DUKE OF DEvONsHIRE-LORD
HERSCHELL. LORD KIM
BERLEY, LORD SPENCER
AND OTHER LIB
ERAL PEERS.
London. August Is.
Taking stock OF a Parliamentary session and
of Parliamentary regulations involves a certain
amount Of personality. and may sometimes prove
moro agreeable TO the stock-taker than TO those
upon whom he has to pu, label or price. but
hope 1t may no, be necessary TO be disagreeaoie
10 anybody. What, said cync OF earlier DAYS
is the use OF having friends II you may not abuse
them? There Is more compact form OF H.
Whom may you abuse II not your friends? There
Is a third condition Of thing for the writer 10
look at public simply as public men, FER
sonal prcjudices predilectioAs have no business
in such an estimate, though they do creep in
sometimes.
Who has gained? Who has lost? Those are
tho questions asks ones self Involuntary as
the end Is reached. The House OF Lords need not
he much discussed. II has witnessed no I'M
portant change: perhaps given opportunity for
none. sense Of unreality pervades that House
That Is one Of Its faults which needs mending
It's conclusions on most matters are foregone
Its debates able as they are. ring hollow. So in
A sense do those Of the other House. In neither
does debate much affect the voting. Yet In the
House of Commons there Is an air OF real bus.-
ness: the talking. whether destined to be the
instrument Of anybody's conversion or not' mas
the note Of earnestness. sometimes even OF SIN
certify. It is business assembly. not de-
batting society. A has TO be stated on one
side and on the other; and is stated
Yet there we reach the common standpoint
Of the two Houses In both the real appeal Is not
to opponents or the other benches or to support
ers on the speakers own side 1t IS TO the couh-
try. The speeches are for reading; they are IA"
material for summaries leading articles. para
graphs. correspondence; all of which are read II
the speeches themselves not. and the best
speeches are read So the debating Is, ultimately
both IN aim and in effect educational 1t does not
do TO leave an argument unanswered. strong
statement without reply Still, apprehend the
country pavs most attention TO what is said In
the House of Commons: perhaps because so much
more Is said But now as so often before wnen
A. cared to- the House Of Lords has shown Itself
worthy of It's ancient fame The debate on the
Tenants Arbitration bill brought the strong
men, the real leaders. 10 the front The speak
ing would have done honor TO any legislative
assembly that existed. What the occasion
failed to do to bring TO the front any ne"
men, or new man. The glories of the House OF
Lords are fol- the most part OF long standihg' IL
there was an exception 1t was Lord Twcednouth'
and he is an exception not so much by reason Oh
his oratory of his vigorous character. his cour-
age his power Of taking personal and original
view and Of disregardng :he demand for con-
formty which such assembly always makes
a new member
Lord Salisbury still dominates the chamber not
only as the master Of great majority, but by
the long habit Of ascendency. both political ana
intellectual. In America you Will never sup
pose do justice TO the fireness OF his ineihgehce
nor vet 10 his character He IS a Tory.-away
with him. Such is the Impotence OF the Arneri-
can nature. 1t judges broadly; sometimes too
broadly II condemns and absoves. decries ana
aptlauds. in accordance with a fixed proposes
sion. A nation any nation has often something
feminine in It's way Of settling matters. Emotion
sentiment. and perhaps personal partialites
above all. play a great part in the formation OF I
its opinions Yet man Of Lord Salsburys
force is not disposed OF by giving him a nick
name He has survived several and he VIII
survive that which you bestow on him. II you
look merely at the record OF this session there is
no need to dwell long Lord Salisbury, for he
has neither lost nor gained. He stands where he
did He is what he was Seldom II ever mas
he spoken better. Seldom has he led his party
with more discretion or tact or judgment. his
Radical opponents will allow him none OF these
qualities: but II you are going ~ form your epin-
don of the Conservative leader from Radical
sources. YOU will know little Of the real Lord
Salisbury Go to them for a caricature-often |
malevolent caricature-but not for likeness
There are however, Re icals and Radicals !
There are those who really endeavor 10 sec things
as they are and who not think 1t a mark /
Of weakness 10 be just To their opponents There
I'm they differ from the mere party hack and !
from the party journa. which assumes that its
readers are fools and thai they like to be told
that those who differ from them in politics are
ell knaves One of the better sort says
am free to confess that the session has pro- !
ducea no four Parliamentary forces SomParan'e /
with those of Mr. Balfonr and Mr.. Chamberlain |
in the one House and Lord Sal 'bury and the |
Duke Of Devorshre in the other.
Another. equally frank. describes Lord Sails J.
bury as having shown himself more active and /
able than ever. This writer perceives that the
leader really has policy ana a I.
policy which Is calculated to bind together al th@
Conservative forces Of the country. 1t is no part
Of his policy to play the Tory Democrat OF cater
for the artisan vote
The true hope for Toryism In the future lies
far more in becoming the centre for all the IN !
lerests and opinions that are offended by the en-
croacl,ments Of Liberal legislation-for the out
nred capitalist as we'll as the angry landlord
for tho injured Churchman and the scandalized
political economist.
TIA. Is. Of course. a hostile way Of stating 1t.
hut Americans will see that there Is something
10 be said for policy which is based on prop
nrty. law. Justice and the protection OF those
tbrea eneo interests which bind society together
Nowhere are they held more sacred than In
America.
II there be any truth in this Radical view OF
Lord Salisbury. 1t is idle for the other KIND OF
Radical to say that he belongs. like the House