Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-08

this plight no one Is excepted--appar-
emily not even himself
% might die tomorrow he said the
other night az BurtOn-on-Trent' land
still there would remain this great en-
pire Of our forefathers II is not my
character or my personality or my
views which matter anything In this
struggle
And now turn away from England
and observe the figure he cuts abroad
In the eyes OF foreigners. whose judg-
ment is often the true guide or nearest
approach 20 the verdict of our own
posterity Gt Is distorted by hatred,
but the size OF the figure remalns)
Abroad Mr. Chamberlain stands as
the representative OF Britain as we'll
aa OF the most hiieous suirit and work
which foreign fancy filled with hatred,
can conceive or twist out Of mixed
fable and fact. He rs always foremost
In The editorials and printed jibes and
filings His pictures IN cartoons ana on
postcards would paper the walls Of the
largest han abroad. They depict him
with a tail, horns and q single hoof, as
the man behind every scene IN recent
Engli7h history from the jameson raid
and he Fashoda affair down % the
saCkIng and burning of the sacred and
arcal.lu homes Of those Doors who
have been adopted by continental Eu-
ropo os an instrument with which TO
couiure the lively devil known as
Anglophobla There Is no more chance
10 get away from his AN peryasivencss
there than there Is In England.
lie came 10 Burton on-Trent In O
special train on Friday night, and,
stepping out of q carriage Of plate
glass lighted like a lamp stood before
us on the platform,
Tie wore an overcoat with heavy
lapoIs Of Persian lambs fur, such as an
actor might be expected 10 sport-a
brilliant new silk hat and trousers.
Ills smooth shaven face was waxen
white and like carving in marble so
much so that when he smiled 10 was as
n a mask had wrlnkled a little about
the mouth.
re merely flashed through the crowd
and was gone
An hour later he was addressing a
meeting I'm Bass branding shed. where
1000 persons had a chance to study
him FOR quite sixty minutes.
I knew the type well-that Of the
most extraordinary product n this
century II has been thought a New
World type produced whore nature Is
magnificent and vast with prairies
that give play 90 enormous actions,
noun tains which stop an but the
mightiest Wills. rivers and cascades
which the ignorant savagos worshlpped,
but the new masters among men have
Il. 90
steel have even humbleds and har-
messed that they NAV transform their
force into motive and lighting power
That Is the Chamberlain type, called
In the New World by such names as
Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould,
Thomas s. Scott, James Hill. Sir Will
liam C. Van Horn and Cecil Rhodes.
Nearly all who are Of this type work
indoors al desks dotted all over with
electric buttons. that summon the
many hands and heads which their vast
affairs require TO carry ont the mere
suggestive flashes OF their single minds.
As Mr.. Chamberlain rose and began
speaking II Was, for a moment, as II
! were IN some other place. looking az
another man, and / expected him to
say: "Gentlemen, / have had the
Rocky Mountains searched and have
found pass where the worst gradient
is only one in a hundred. and we shall
haul trains with a single light engine
as against the four 100-ton engines now
used By our competitors / have arr
ranged 20 put our own steamers Of full
Atlantic Tonnage upon the great lakes
and 10 pay for them out Of their own
savings at the rate Of two q year. We
shall lay out for our Pacific terminus.
port which must rival Liverpool in
the course Of twenty years and which,
at an expenditure Of Sj0000O0, should
return US its cost annually after the
first few years for the next two de-
cades."
Cool 20 coldnoss, so pallid that wo-
men whispered that he was M, straight
as an arrow. without a single gray
hair, slender as a professional runner
dressed as only can be dressed a man
OF routine whose pulse IL Holandish
who let's others do the work, the walk
ing and the worrying he might be
thought 20 have walked out OF a cold
storage room.
The shed was like a Turkish bath
and its heat worked upon his surface
ice in time, after which his smile was
more easily executed and his cheek
trembled now and then where the light
string Of his eyeglass touched IT, For
he wore the inevitable glass. and with
a sense Of effect as perfect as II he had
been japanese terra Gotta colored or
child 10 balance II.
Note that the audience was noisy
that IL had been said there was a plot
20 break up the meeting
The master-the brain in mans at
tlre--exhibited no more impotence or
annoyance than found expression In the
slow raising OF one hand with a gesture
hait or insistence, half Of warning.
The disturbance grew, and there
came from him the note Of one who will
not brook interruption. IL was uttered
as deliberately and slowly, with the
same GOODNESS as all else that he said
III there are any persons who wish
70 disturb this meeting make a circle
round them and we can tell who they
are -