The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-06

HIS d luiil-Sodl, anu Idlll at HIS uOU
 all the woes of the South African wal
 and the other came with more Valo
 than skill to his defense Precisely a
 It is regarding this secretary of tn
 colonies al. over England at this time
 That little scene was an epitome of ont
 of the btterest controversies an Eng
 llsh statesman ever aroused. But th(
 larger contest is surely going MT
 Chamberlain's way, just as this small
 CT one seemed to do. "Joe Chamber
 lain" said his champion triumphantly
 is the same man he was in 'S6, wher
 he broke with the Liberals on 'Ome
 Rule, and e's the working mans ia vorite." Both these statements were
 denied, and the controversies on the
 other side seemed just then to gain re- | Inducements, An" said MT. Cham
 berlain's defender, you've got some
 body behind you, ave you, pulling the
 strings. Gentlemen, e 'asn't brains
 enough 'lmself. l don't spoil my tea
 for such as i'm" and he was off, osten-
 sibly to get his tea, but presumably to get something stronger.
 Near by was a larger group of people,
 and it was evident that they were lis
 tening to a formal and what promised
 to be very long address The topic in 1 this case was Company Promoting, something which is rather obnoxious to Londoners just at this time owing to the discreditable exposures at the great Hooley trial Every man has his price" was a leading note with this speaker and he went on to show how
 the value of certain companies had
 been advanced by the patronage of the
 Duke of Abercorn and the Duke of
 Fife. Who was the Duke of Abercorn?
 he asked. He was one of the commits
 sioners the king had sent abroad to
 announce his accession.'1 Who was the
 Duke of Fife? He was the kings
 son-in law" This was getting nearer
 than I wanted to be by even so much as
 the hearing of the ear to a want of re- spect toward the powers that be- and, anyway, Company Promoting seemed rather in appropriate subject for Sun day evening. So I passed on.
 What is the speaker at the next stand talking about? On the ragged edges of the listening crowd I make tiIl2 ilIiAllH y, iJuL iio pllC iS etbic lo Nii- Tighten me- Ebowing nearer, where the speakers voice is quite distinct, ask again what it's all about and sev- eral of the listeners tell me they do not know, This I find is a characteris- tic of Hyde Park audiences, and, on the whole, considering how much is said in this Peoples Forum that is bad, how much more that is indifferent, and how little that is good, isn't it bless ing? Tn this instance your corfespon- dent himself couldn't tell from merely listening to the man what he was talk ing about One had to infer his sub ject from the sign in front of his desk. This announced in flaring letters Propaganda of Humanitarian Deism, by Joachim Kaspary, for the Conver sion of Christians, Jews. Atheists and other Unbelievers and Sinners
 This was mixing things up, it seemed to me- in way not warranted by either Scripture or good taste. To find ones self classed, as a Christian, with Atheists and other unbelievers and sinners" might do well enough as one of the vagaries of Hyde Park. but 1t was hardly conducive to Christian or to any other virtue either Christian or heather. So again was relief sought in change. and so 1t happened that in the next two groups we had spread out before us situation that is perhaps more characteristic of l Hyde Park polemlcs than any other, viz, a pitched battle between the de- | lenders of the Bible and its detractors. Such a battle, as 1t is carried on in | Hyde Park, is a thing to be smiled at | IF wept over according to one's tastes | and inclinations, Those who take life | are sure to wish that the Bi- | ole had those to defend it who are pull | ng it to pieces Others, however, will [ see in this Hyde Park situation only a sham bottle, and will pass it off with smile.
 But there the battle is, for good or ill. e be laughed at or regretted. and many i Ire the on-lookers of both sexes and all | ,ges. One cannot help feeling, too, hat more people in these groups know what the subject is Facing you from me stand is the familiar motto. '"The world is my country mankind my brethren, to do good my religion" and he tall, lean individual who offlciates ere Is asking in a rather sneering one and with rather wild look in his ye "Who lighted the fires of Smith, eld? Who invented the rack and hum screw and all the other instru- lents of torture?" This is the man 1ho alluded in an almost obscene man CT to what he called "the ghost story" onnected with the percentage of the ,orld's Redeemer. This man is an able peaker with much of the reckless wit f an Ingersoll and with just touch the same kind of insinuating elo- uence. So it was at the Secularst's tard, and unfortunately at the stand dioining where the Bible was sup osed to have it's defenders there was
 man holding forth whose only re- was his fervor and who ad no more thrilling point to make, nile I was listening than that Arch eacon Farrar. in giving a late date to le book of Daniel, had been trium- hantly confuted by some other1 1urchman of equal learning, who had 1 - lst come out in favor of the earlier ate.
 There was one man who had very rge crowd about him, One reason for lis was that he was talking money. mother was that he was appealing to bigotry, But his pro- seed appeal was to the world and tes- mony of Scripture. "I'll give a thou md Do1lpds '' ha sai6 "tp nDy one who |