The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12

Of the sEnglisher Kinderfresser' En-
glish Childeaterl, the reference having
its origin, of course in the child NOR
tality Of the South African coneentra-
ton camps. for which the colonial sec
rotary seems TO be held solely respon-
sible. The caricaturists have seized
upon his striking physiognomy, the IN
hinching eye, the ever present mono
Gle, the straight nose, the tightly shut
mouth, the aggressive poise of the head
and the never failing orchid. and olsh
him up daily in dozens Of gulses, al
ways ridiculous and hostile TO the de-
location OF their c0untrymen IN all
walks of life To the German, sham
pertain" is merely a vulgar adventur-
or. cold-blooded. brutal vindictive ana
impatient Of interference, q common
provincial fly-by- night Their dearest
term of reprOaeh is This staggering
screwmaker of Birmingham
If a British success is scored IN
Africa, the nti-Chamberlain flame
leaps high in indignation and the carl
caturists and music hall singers pile
on more inflammable material; II, on
the other hand, there happens to De
British reverse. no matter how lnslg
/ IllCduL.
Chamberlain are heard up and down
the land just the same.
Not a single WORD is there against
other English statesmen. The Whole
/ anti English sentiment on the CONT
nent seems to have concentrated ITSELF
upon this one solitary immOVable man.
And how does he take it? A journal
/ istic colleague of mine had occasion
the other day to observe him az his
! home at Highbury, near Birmingham.
| There, among his books and his Or
chids, was the ogre, the blood-thirsty
SLAYER of women and children, the sue
cessor of Napoleon and Bismarck in
the evil thoughts of Europe. He did
not look the part at all.
| I remember my first glimpse of Mr.
Chamberlain in the house of commons
thirteen years ago. Even then 1 had
come here with a preconceived notion
of this terrible man, for 1 had heard
all about his breach with his former
| colleagues on the home rule side, ana
was ready to believe all that was then
said of him. But 1 found, instead,
calm. self possessed man of the world,
a quick thinker, a splendid debater,
with a voice so full and resonant and
healthy and sympathetic that IT was
impossible not to admire him-almost
like him, at a distance.
He is not a lovable, magnetic per-
lsonage, like that of the late Mr.. Glad
stone, or Lord Rosebery, or even Mr..
Balfour. He is too much a man OF
business to give himself time to stud5
the nicetieS of social and political
tamenity. He is generally short, sharp
land to the point, and every word he ut
Eters shows a pre-eminent possession
of common sense real horse sense, on
the part of the speaker. He does not
falIow himself to be interviewed by the
newspapers, but seldom fails TO re-
ceive the representative of those jour
nails which he knows he can trust OF
those with whom he has a personal &C
uuaintance Then the interview re-
solves itself to a conversation which
the newspaper gives to the world The
next day as information which We
have received from an undoubteC
source"
AS my friends recent interview witt
Mr.. Chamberlain was not connected
with a newspaper. and as I am no
bound to secrecy in this one case,
may be permitted to say that he did
not in the least feel disturbed at tn
? recent onslaught on him in the Ger
man newspapers.
They must have some one to raj
] at" he said simply, and 1 suppose
suits them TO pick me out as the mos
= convenient hook on which TO hang thei
: wares. Well, welP'-and this in mus
ling tone. touched with a strain of wear
t iness-'Ive stood that sort of thing 70
D many years now, and do not think
e have lost much sleep over il. l an
b sure I could not look with equanimit
] upon a universal effort to hold me u
$ to the world as the personification o
= all the virtues, for if such thing oc
Cured I should certainly feel alarmed.
q q q
Mr.. Chamberlain walked up an
D down the long, spacious hall of High
e bury as he talked. At one end, sus
e pended from a gallery, was a hug
e banner, the stars and stripes. a grace
o full concession TO the nationality c
= the mistress of the house. This shol
d walk in the hall is. perhaps, the Onl
' physical exercise that the great mir
e lister ever takes, and yet, with hi
: so odd years, he looks scarcely nor
: than 40, for he has all the vigOr an
fire of a man more than twenty yeal
his junior, and mis- face does not bes
Y. the pallor of the indOOr-keeping maj
who goes without fresh air or exc