New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-07
PROBLEMS OF GREAT BRITAIN
ADDRESS BY THE REV CHARLES F. AKED
AT CORNELL.
LORD RosEBERY NOT A FIT LEADER OF THE
LIBERAL PARTY-THE EVIL OF TURF GAM

LORD RosEBERY NOT FIT LEADER OF THE
LIBERAL PARrY-THE EVIL OF TURF GAM
B1LNG-PoLITIcs AND PROGRESS.
Ithaca Nov 6-The Rev Charles +. Aked. of
Pembroke Chapel Liverpool. England. preached at
Cornell University on Sunday. lie delivered an adj
dress before the university Politics, Problems
and Progress in Great Britain" He said In part
You may still see the advertisement sometimes IN
a manufacturing town, Hands wanted but our
people are learning that heads are wanted too ana
Ina. heads and hands but the instruments with
which is working immortal soul new spitls
is abroad and "A democracy is rising up such as me
Old Word has never known before. Men VII , De
content to be hewers Of wood and drawers OF Wa'es
the ages God bless the Squire and his relations;
and teacf US poor soIp 10 KIP Cn i,,,on hands
Labor is not only knocking with mllnoh iahvs
at the golden gates OF me mor for light and
lie ana liberty. All through me lan4 there
nenf' and the labor problem In Great Britain
is ono Of singular difficulty and compiexlty
hours longer wages and legislative protection at
their work: while they have so iar IMPRESSED me
10 lead a dignitsry OF the Church of England TO say
at the Church Congress that they We're aDsoiutey
years however the demands OF Labor have been 50
wild. or Wildly uttered, that sober people VINO
had sympathized and admired, have felt Competed
to reconsiarf ther Ss Indenendent Labor party
under the leadership Of Keir Hardie, has made
Tile in TO make nevertheless its vagaries have
helped 10 produce Conservative reaction the set
back In the tide OF moral reform which Is among
the most remarkable OF the phenomena or the cen
Jury Men who have strven for popular ends
whose hearts have been with the people. VINO nave
sacrificed and suffered for them have OF late found
themselves assailed by the leaders OF the new
movement III terms OF hatred and contempt happily
In the controversies OF our country Ana they
have been forced to ask themselves whether the
country could possibly suffer more at the hands OF
the capitalist or the Tory squire man az the hanls
OF the denagogue. drunk with the pride OF place
have been threatened have assumed an attitude OF
opposition and the net result or the work OF men
ike Ker Harde seems 10 be that 1t has driven
the selfish and the unselhsh INTO d combined an
tagonism 10 progress
has overtaken tn reform movements or Great
Britain does not belong 10 them alone. Inside the
cratic progress. there are men who have faith
in the people and whose sinister opposition 70 the
come near justlfying the policy which has proved
fatal II was an eyil day Tor the aus 81 prog,
the leader OF the party which Mr.. Gladstone had
berry. who was the nominee OF the Court. was
toisted upon The party and the true story 81 me
carried only slowly filtered through British
Tho grounds Of our dislike to Lord Rosebery are
many. He IL man enormously rich. and suspected
o. stock Exchange dealings lie IS a friend OF me
Prince OF Wales an intimate friend ana mat one
fac; is sufficient to condemn him In the eyes OF
Of progress. We argue that II ne mas any sympathy
with a Ike the Prince OF Wales ne can nave
none with our deals ana dsp pa b man Yay
lies In the direction taken by the Prince why ours
our separate way the better. Lord Rosebery has
financial interest in whiskey distillery. and at
time when the party he leads Is pledged TO tenn
perance reform that fact does not encourage ~
10 trust him. He has won the Derby twice mat
is 10 say. he Is prominent patron CT the turf OF
a lOahsome inqu!ty which Is poiluting the very
ifeboOd OF the nation And do not believe
In the mans sincerity, do believe that the
attack on the House OF Lords ever seriously
meant do not believe that he himself believes
in Liberalism. In the Liberal party or In the peo
pie. We suspect him OF wish to see the Liberal
party destroyed. and a Rosebery party created. a
William Pitt party. with himself as the William
pitt. And what the outcome OF II all may be no
living man can tell The future OF party politics
In Great Britain H. absolutely dark to-day. Lord
Salisbury assured OF years OF rule-he or
his successor-and II Is not exaggeration 10 say
that he is the most absolute monarch in Europe at
the present time.
The vice to which | have referred. the vice OF
ages and both II Is an aristocrat!c vice 1t
is part OF the price which the nation has 10
pay for allowing idle rich class 10 cumber the
! ground through many generations II Is not
only princes and pugilists VINO gamb.e-we expect
II Of them-but workingmen gamble necessarily.
and wOrkingwomen, too. and work and play are
alike corrupted by the evil thing We need the
enforcement OF existing laws against the provision
OF facilities for gambling, and there IS one new
law which need-we need a law prohibiting the
publication IN any newspaper OF betting odds any
ting When the Vices and the virtues OF cheap
printing come be reckoned up. the part which
| the press has Played In carrying the Infection OF
| the into every home and every corner
OF the land will be counted almost unpardona bic
sin But such q drastic measure. impartIaIy en-