The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-21
Mr.. DEPEW INTERVIEWED.

Depew arrived from Europe Saturday
night on the steamship Paris. In an
interview yesterday concerning his va
cation trip he had the following to
say:
I'VE arrived at Southampton at the
close of the elections in England after
one of the smoothest of passages on a
summer sea. The progress of Ameri-
can methods in the old country is ex-
traordinary. They say we have al
ready ruined their weather. Five
years ago the London newspapers
sent me n letter politely requesting
the appointment of n time convenient
to myself when a Representative might
call, and afterwards submitted proofs
Three years ago reporters Gale | and
sent up their cards. but asked few
questions, principally about American
securities. This year the steamer
landed at ) o'clock in the morning. At
6 o'clock l went down to breakfast to
find n reporter by my chair, saying in
a wcll-remembered New York way:
Are You Mr. Chauncey NJ. Depew?
Well, then l want n column IN these
subjects upon which lam instructed to
get your views
There were 4 dozen questions o
ering the elections. finance, industrial
prospects and the policies of parties.
1t was impossible not to recognize and
respond to such a touch of home. the
interview in whole or part appeared
in all the English papers.
elm raS,aat fl,a, rnGr11f yx-aS infar-
esting and showed the development Of
the American in England with social
ambitions. The interview gave the
Anglomaniac the opportunity and they
improved it in the press, at dinners
and in the drawing rooms. One of the
questions was: What is the American
idea of home rule. and how generally
are Americans of m mind on the SUBJ
ject?' My answer vas substantially
hat home rule is the cornerstone Of
our institutions and u people are
practically unanimous on that subject;
that there never had been any division
among us as to home rule for Ireland,
and we could not understand the
real or manufactured fears Of the
adoption of the policy leading to the
disruption of the British empire. On
the contrary we thought the adoption
of the federative principle would bene-
fit England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
and the colonies; that we were heart
lily in favor OF English speaking peo-
pies leading the world and willing
that the British empire should have 4
first place in the affairs of Europe,
Asia, Africa and Australia, but that
we would neither consent to nor per-
: nit the control or occupation by any
European power of the republics of
: America.
Now, our English kinsman loves
frankness and fair play. lie is an in
tense partisan and born fighter, bat he
! has too good an opinion of himself to
like an imitation of himself from
any other country. lie doesn't care for
! Anglo-Americans, or Anglo-Frcnch-
! men, or AnglO-Germans or Italians.
lie likes genuine representatives of
any people, and is most hospitable in
his home and family. Certainly, l Z did
not experience any of the dreadful
consequences predicted for telling the
truth.
"tCan you tell SAID an American
LAZY, the wife of Il most agreeable but
m-oss-covered tory, the difference be-
tween a conservative and a radical
over here? | have never heard but
one side l told her she could differ
e~ntiate them on this generalization:
"A British conservative wants every
thing to remain as it exists, NJ matter
how bad it is, and a radical to change
everything no matter how good it is
Our enlarged navy, our recent coll
lision with the British foreign office
over Nicaragua and Venezuela, our in
! creasing int crest in foreign relations,
and the possibility of an administra-
ton which will enforce the Monroe
doctrine, has created a new and I'M
usual interest in the affairs of the
United States. This is evidenced in
the Times appointing Mr.. Smalley it's
special correspondent in the United
States and printing several columns Of
his cables. The statesmen of both
! parties would like a sort of offensive
and defensive alliance with us. They
want our help in China and in Japan
| and in the difficulties arising ont of
Russian, German and French hostility
and aggressiveness in the east, and
would gladly bundle all American
matters into our hands in exchange
for such an understanding.
The strength of the tories is in the
cities. They have no temperance or
reform fads or fadists, and the liquor
and beer interests are solidly with
them. The London districts which
return members of parliament have
five times more population and votes
than the Irish districts, and the one
most uppermost idea with every con-
servative you meet is to minimize Irish
power in parliament by taking away
twenty-three seats from Ireland and
giving most of them to London.
I'm a sense this tremendous growth
of cities, while the country stands still
or decreases in population. is the same
difficulty which our New York consti-
tutional convention tried to settle by
preventing the cities of New York and
Brooklyn fromNever having a majority
Of state senator's. While Ireiand's
population has run down from s. 900, 900
to 4, 1000, OO0, that of London has in
creased from 1000. 600 to G. 200, O0G."
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