Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-15


Mr. Haysrd "au Asnersean Gentlemen, >.
1t isitrue that some good thing may
como ourof Naznrexh. y Wo are assured
Of this fact by the following editorial
which was pSin.ed In the New York
Tribune Of yesterday. under tho title 81
An Anglican Gentleman !"
What is most noteworthy in .tbs
Saturday Review's euIopy upon MI
Basard, under the title above quoted.
Is not merely that ii 10 sulo1y. Tho
personal note is dominant throup bout.
distinctly and nyowedIy dominant. and
personally Mr.. Bayard 10 so deserving
Of eulogy that not even the SATURDAY
Review could well withhold it from
him. What ii Hnys OF bin lie quito
true. His attractive physical presence.
his transparent sincerity, b is Ingenious
ness. his freedom from unclean speecb,
his optimism, his idealism. his sym.
pathy with what is best in life. his
'ex4uisite balance and charming tenn
perament," are all known to his own
countrymen, and it would be little TO
Ensiand's credit il she did not appre.
ciate them. 1t is because Of such things
that Mr.. Bayard has been more popular
~ England than any other American
Minister.
Even than Lowell. The Saturday
Review itself makes tho comparison.
and it must bear tho odium il il be
invidious, Frankly--and this is more
noteworthy than the eulogy of Mr..
t3ayard--the English did not and could
not appreciate Lowell. 1t is the Satur-
day Review that makes the confession,
Lowell was distinguished author, and
a man OF fine presence and urbane
manners. !" He had great abilities and
many charming gifts'' Yet be left
England with reputation insuitingly
ncommensurate. and the fault there.
for lay with England more than with
him. So says the Saturday Review. Ii
10 an Indictment Of England more severe
than an American would care to make.
There are those who will wonder, how
ever, whether the diplomatic factor did
not enter into the determination of tie
problem. For Lowell was a diplomat,
10 the practical business sense as well
as IN the merely social aBd ornamental
sense OF the term. He attended TO his
country's business, sometimes neces-
sarily 10 a way not altogether pleasing
to the English. PERHAPS, after ali.
that has more to do with English pref
erence for Mr.. Bayard than is made TO
appear in the Saturday Review.
But what is most significant in this
once rancorous critics elnuuent peace.
Offering is tne frank confession. made
with studied conspicuousness, that
men like Mr.. Bayard-men Of ''cufi-
ously beautiful nature" gentlemen of
a wonderfully fine type''-."are NOT as
rare in America as they are in most
other countries. % That Is indeed a
tribute. An American might well have
been content to say modestly that they
are not more rare. The Saturday Re-
view says plumply mot as rass. y With
such judgment, gratuitous and, II
truth must be told, unwonted, ii would
be most uugracious to quarrel. But il
it be accepted, what Them MAY ii not
be argued that democracy, this very
dwelling OF artificial ranks, and iostliug
Of elbows clad in fustian or quite bare
with those attired in broadclotb, the
very conditions THAT Old World critics
have deemed to make for crudeness and
negation of culture, actually make for
personal and social Sweetness and
light?'
Certainly 1T is the modest course to
pursue to assume that it is SO. For if
not, il Americans have this gentleness
OF life despite and not because of their
democracy, their claim of credit must
he much higher still. With the lesser
degree they may we'll be content. and
perhaps with such encouragement as
this which we have quoted, TREY NAV
one day be able to convince the English
that the utmost tineness of personality
and grace OF social qualities are entirely
compatible with robust and vigorous
Americanism and with inhexible devo.
tion to American interests. Or il they
do not succeed in such conviction, they
Will at least have this high British
authority's confession Of unappreciat
lVenesH to give them comfort in the
failure; that. and the realization that
their Ambassador, il rot esteemed at
his full worth abroad, is fulfilling faith
fully aud efnciently the duties OF the
more important mission whersunto he
is sent.
There is nothing surprising 10 this
very clever tribute TO Mr.. Baysrd, by
itself considered, as much more than
this has been written and printed by
tho piOoS VI DoIi blub5 VI tUD AtldQtIc
in sincsre communication OF our fret
Ambassador to Great Britain, and tho
ablest representative ever comm issioned
by the government of the United States
TO the Court of st. james. II is the
source that makes it surprising. 1t is
from the New York Tribune, that most
servile of Republican partisan papers,
which for years delighted to Islander
Mr.. Bayard, AMI do its utmost to be.
little his splendid reputation, upon
every conceivable occasion.
Swift sudden, startling--like unto the
conversion OF Saul of Taraus--is the
mental revolution that has thus recon
ciied the Tribune to the utterancs OF
words commendatory OF Mr.. Bayard.
1t shines forth rs CLEAN Of
honest expression from SOURCES long
devoted to the dissemination uf false.
hood, Islander and deceit.
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