The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-14

in the kind of speech that makes taking
 points in behalf of a good cause, with out giving offense to the opposite side, l Chamberlain is out of the race with | Rosebery. There are those in England who think he may be compared as an l orator with our own William J. Bryan. But the comparison is only g. contrast. l In passion, in force, in earnestness and ! in physique, Bryan is a platform giant l by the side of whom Rosebery would seem only a pigmy. Rosebery, howev- l CT would utterly dwarf Bryan in other | regards, for he has a pleasant voice, he always looks amiable and smiling, he l never says harsh thing without wrap l ping it up in a compliment, and while he is undoubtedly q sincere man, his nimbleness of intellect, his sense of hu- mor and his obvious determination to avoid giving offense are things so diff ferent from the Bryan stamp of orato- ry that the philosophie listener is pug zIed much of the time to decide Wheth- CT Rosebery desires to be taken in real earnest or with several grains of allow ance.
 Lord RoSebery as an orator is more like Chauncey DepeW used to be than like William J. Bryan either as he was or is Yet he has some features of at tractiveness and charm which Depew never had To English hearers it is no small matter that the one who is taking pains to interest them is of high birth and station-that instead of being the gentleman and scholar and orator he is,
 he might have been roafer and gilded libertine. But Rosebery, besides this advantage, eXcels DepeW in light hu- nor. He is not the great story teller Depew used to be. but he can turn a point against a previous speaker with
 an agility and courtly courtesy that
 Depew could not excel in his best days,
 while in all the essentials of scholar
 ship, of versatility of grace andS charm,
 he is fully Depew's equal, if not his
 master, from first to last.
 This comparison of English and
 American oratory makes one think of
 other respects in which the two coun-
 tries are alike, with difference.
 There were many at home who were
 shocked at the after results of the Gu
 ban war They wondered what Eng
 land would think of our Sampson and
 Sohley controversy and of the em-
 balmed beef and other reeking scan
 dals. By this time such timid, squeam-
 ish Americans ought to be con1forted,
 for the question now is not what does
 England think of us, but what does she
 think of herself? Quite full are her
 hands Just now of army squabbles and
 scandals which are all her own. De-
 lightfully reassuring is it to find in the
 Butler White episode something which
 matches the Sampson and Schley guar
 rel, and though embalmed beef has not
 figured so far, it is quite likely to do
 before this interminable war comes ao
 an end Anyway, there Is the Re
 mount scandal and it is now being in-
 vestigated But what many are anX- ious to see is an all-round investigation
 of army contracts in general. Even Lord Rosebery is crying out for this, and it is currently rumored over here that in this matter. as in othere in
 which his charming voice has been raised In criticism of army and govern mental methods, his lordship speaks under a sort of family inspiration, with King Edward and the throne behind him
 Being now up against King Edward one cannot help thinking of His Ma iesty's recent visit to Burton and of the thoroughly English principles which took him there and governed his | public actions on that occasion. Bur | ton-on- Trent is where the best English | ale is brewed As the Daily Tele l graph" says, in q leading article. laud 1 atory of King Edwards visit, Bass ale l has followed the English flag and gone i to some places where that flag doesn't | float, except under sufferance. It was l Lord Burton who entertained the king, | but his family name was that of his | celebrated brand of pale ale, and he l was made baron. with the privilege | of calling himself by the name of his | town, simply because beer had made l him a man of enormous wealth. King | Edward has perfect right to visit | whom he pleases and the only people | who can rightfully complain are his own subjects who pay the bills, But to how strange it will seem that the kings visit to Burton-on Trent, as the guest of Lord Burton, should have been utilized for the boom-
 ing of the beer business!
 This business, one might easily con- dude, doesn't need any special booming
 In England. It is thoroughly well in -renched both in the habits and stom- achs of His Majesty's subjects, Never -heless, the king. in visiting Bass great brewery, starts new mash, to l be known as the Kings Ale" which 1 will probably not be exhausted for a ong time and which is certain to have l great run, if one may so speak of what runs down the necks of the Brit sh public. Imagine a president of the United States using his influence in this vayl But it is out of the question, and nothing illustrates any more farcibly han this the happy advantage America las over England
 Green with envy and jealousy at this
 me are King Edward and all his sub ects over Emperor Williams cute trick n sending Prince Henry to fetch his lew yacht home and do other useful services before the American people n palace and cottage the query now is Why, when he had only to cross the Canadian border, didn't the Duke of Cornwall pay visit to our American ousins?" That lapse has only been re- ;retted once, and the regret began l hortly after the slight and has been , ever since. Never was here a time when England so nouch 1