The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-16

NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-Chauncey NJ.
Depew, who arrived at Quarantine late
last night, landed from the steamer
City of Paris this morning Afterward
he received reporters al his office in
the Grand Central depot. and gave an
extended interview on the politics of
Europe, upon his trip and a miracle
which he witnessed at Lourdes.
Mr.. Depew said something of a
sensation was stirred up among the
anglomaniacs by an interview which
he gave to the London papers. One
of the questions, What is the Amer
lean idea of home rule and how gen.
orally are Americans of one mind upon
that subject?'
Speaking of this, Mr.. Depew said:
'FMy answer was substantially that
home rule is the corner stone of our
institutions, and our people are prac-
tically unanimous on the subject; that
there never had been any division
among us as to home rule for Ireland
ana we could not understand the real
or manufactured fears of the adop-
ton of the policy leading to the dis
ruption Of the British empire. On the
contrary, we thought the addition of
the federative principle would benefit
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
the colonies; that we were heartily in
favor of English-speahing people lead
ing the world, and willing that the
British empire should have the first
place in the affairs of Europe, as of
Africa and Australia, but we would
never consent nor permit the control
or occupa ton by a union of power of
the republics of America
The Dominant Power.
"Of the 800 members of the house of
lords, all but twenty-five are Conser-
vatives or Tories Society is over
whelmingly the same. I never had
a Radical guest at my house. said a
proud peer to me. While this rule is
not general, the feeling fs. American
residents in England become attached
to the dominant power and many of
them are more extreme than its lead
ers. Their denunciations of home rule
and views on the Irish are refreshing
revelations of the influence of environ
ment. They wrote letters to the pa
pers vigorously denying my statement.
According to them, [ was either gross
ly ignorant of American sentiment or
a phenomenal liar. They said that be-
yond the politicians and political pa
pers controlled by fear of the Irish
vote, all there is in our coun-
try which represents it's intelligence
its learning and its society, is opposed
to home rule and in cordial sympathy
with the leads and principles of the
Tory party. Moreover, they told me
personally that L would be ostracised
E q Nac ~
ster Gazette came its representative
with stenographer and a request for
an interview 1t filled three columns
of the paper and was the largest con-
tribution of the kind ever printed in an
English journal After ting the
statement before given, / re-enfOrced
by stating the daily and weekly press
of the United States without excep-
ton, so far as I knew, had editorially
supported MIR. Glandstone and his
measures; that many of the state legis-
latures had unanimously passed reso-
| lutions favoring it, and that the House
of Representatives by a unanimous
vote, had received Mr. ParneL. Now
our English kinsman loves frankness
and fair play. He is an intense par
tisan and a born fighter, but he has toe
| good an opinion of himself to like ar
intimation of himself from any other
country. He don't care for Anglo
Americans, or Anglo-Germans or An.
+ glo-Frenchmen or Anglo-Italians. He
likes genuine representatives of any
people and is most hospitable to them
in his home and family. Certainly
| did not experience any of the fearful
| consequences predicted for telling the
| truth.
A Great Victory.
"a Conservative leader said to me
We have won a great and rather en-
! barrassing victory without making &
| pledge or promise. We had no plat
simply assaulted the incompetency Of
the Liberal government
! "But while the conservatives are
safely in power for six years, the lib
eral is already making matters un-
comfortable for his tory partner A
| large programmes for the local self
government throughout the United
Kingdom, for a broad scheme of state
socialism or paternalism and plans
more or less vague, for the benefit oil
what they call the 'laboring classes.
Mr. Chamberlain and his friends are
disturbing the rest and comfort of the
| conservatives. Our recent trouble with
the British foreign Office over Nicar-
aqua and Venezuela, increasing inter
est in foreign relations and the posi-.
bility of an administration which will
enforce the Monroe doctrine, have ere.
ated new and unusual in.
terest and resulted in the Times
| appointing Mr.. Smalley as it!
special correspondent in the United
States, and printing several columns q
week of his cables. The statesmen OF
both parties would like a sort of ar
offensive and defensive alliance with
us. They want our help in China and
Japan, and in the difficulties arising
out of Russia, German and French hos
tility and aggressions in the east
and would gladly bundle all American
matters into our hands in exchange
| for such an understanding
| Tory Strength.
"The strength of the Tories is in the
cities. They have no prohibition OF
temperance or reform fads or faddists
4 and powerful liquor and beer interest:
are solidly with them. The Londo1
Adistricts which return members of par