Arizona republican., 1902-01-03
UDT0HT 2s a DINNER
 F. A IKE P


 time cf the trouble over Venezueia-
 when. incredible and horrible as 1t may seem. there was chance Of war be-
 tween the nations or America and Eng land-that some keen and not urAu-
 uloTous American observer made the
 remark that the outbIrst of American
 y'rath ever so apparently small q qUes-
 ton might be practically traced back to
 the unseernly squab bbles in which the
 contest for the American yacht cup
 had ended.
 To understand American feeling and
 character properly one must always
 remember that the American Is, n some respects, tkc most emotional be-
 ins in the world. lie remains the one
 human being in civilized nations who
 has preserved the simplicity of strong
 human feeling. His love. his hate, his
 sense of courtesy. his resentment Of of Tense have remained at g stage of rat
 urciness, strength and sincerity that
 nave abated somewhat in the older civ ilizations-amid the meaner and more hopeless struggles, the smaller life and possibilities Of the countries of the cid
 world.
 These are the spirituai roocs or much that seems at once fascinating and strange in the American character and temperament. and this is the ezp.ana- ton Of the abounding difficulties that surround such an enterprise as an in ternatioual yacht race. With their cvervaeninS and just pride in their great rat ation, with that spirit Of f-Evor which they bring into sport as in.o 1 everything else they attempt, with the intense wave ~or emotion that passes over them on great occasions-the American looAs on his yacnt race with
 b. .y- -,I- possible but scarcely ineligible. And
 it is into this powder magazine of emo ton, c. sUscepti5ilitics. passion, that the foreigner enters who issues Chal- ] leUEe for the cup. l do protest tn2t 1 think the man who is able to accCup- fish ,hc task Of doing that, and leaving not one enulty bat innumarabIs friend ~aiI-s behind. is man who has CpDe solcethiuS almsst as miraculous as th- auc5assaccr "Eo preserves the peace fer years between two nations seDa- rated h.. blood feud.
 There is such 9 man--and he IS the
 man who was lately entertained at the Hotel Cecil. l have known Sir Thomas { L!rton fOI @ long score oi years. c.ruost from his early beginnings. 1 lt.ew hiHa when he was plain Tom Liptoa. and when the siddy world of sport and fashion and popularity, through which he now sails with SUch ease ana UEeT- ring instinct. Was unknown to him, i and when he was equally uri-no-:u to lt. ! remember the day when, seated in that small American office char Jhat ! is Eis thrcne-in tho great building n the City Road. Naich then was pain fully neyv-E- told me the astoGuI!Is fact that Up to that hour he had never GiEed o;,t once ir Lcncon and had never been once inside London the ete-.
 His chief place or business in those now far-cn days was iu Glasgow, and his one occupation. interest, pleasure in fife was his business He w@s ia his od-ce as early as any of the huu- Crcls of cicrzs-2s any Of the h1udreds or young women JypowriteTs who were in his employ; and he luucced there. very often dined there, and very often
 indeed. usually-ne left there ,W:sen ! it was not far from midnight. and when theio gas neither time nor opportunity no- energy left for any form Of social or other amusement.
 And then. one day. London a-o--e and discovered the very remarkable man who had been living in c5ntented ubscuIity for so many years ia it's midst. And ti-e modest, seIf--IaCe1 man oi 5uriue=s-conteu with his lot- wa1 dragged, Wrlly-nilly, into the eiddy streams of Lo13on's tuWultuous life. into great bauquCts and solemn fCnc- tioG=; and finally. when his Iaoies-y. E5a .sood nature. his simplicity had won him gil hearts. he gained place in the heart Cf the nov highest and al
 ways sle rlost beloved Iady in the land b- giving 70 one of her taFo.--e achou1aa For tle relie- and enjoyment O. the ,yaits and strays and weddings or
 rT.si princely ss the charity itscIf
 And SO there came to be another Lip ten from the one l had k1ov.u-a1othcr iu the sense that he lived as much in
 the glare Of the world as lle had h!th- crto lived in it's quiet and self-obscured byways. But net another Lipton in any other sense; Tor I find him the same simple, unaffected. keen. ab- sCrbed business man how as he Was when he still had to eat his first public dinner and go to his first theater iH London.
 This was a sufficiently remarkable trausf9rms ton; but s-;ii felt that, tn til ] heard 1ioton st his dime the other night. ! had never understood or realized the full man. And yet ] glSlt to have done SO. for already had v-1n-
 dcrcd at the marvellous succ ess with
 which. he had carried himself through
 aa ordeal the shoals and quici-sands Of
 which only thoze who know England
 and America could adequately appre-
 ciat-. Here Was a man who had twice
 attempted tc take from america one
 Of tl,e rloi!es on v iich she most brides
 herseif-vho had entered that which
 have called a powde- magazine of susceptibuities and Dassiors-ana yet had never given oGcrse. But that IS not the. full catalogue of tisc achieve :ne1t.
 have unbounGed respect for the e. traordinary energy. enterprise and Gar- ing of t.e American press; but do not think that any severer trial can be put ofi d public man than having 10 run ! the gauntlet of the American interview er. That able. merciless, ubiquitous l being has powers of insight YorE often | ..7-