New-York tribune., 1910-11-27
SHI
London. November D.


,rine. and il is felt by men who differ
--nr MIN sharply in respect Of his INDIA
,olicv. He is. il truth, one Of the few
c-ear public servants who win the af1ec-
-jo- Of those under them and about
,benl. From the Morley whom / first
knew some forty years ago to the Morley
~ to-day il is a long step. Yet don't
Know that there is much real change in
he man he was an idealist then and
h. IS an idealist now. But he was. and
< an idealiSt with an appetite for the
hard. practical work OF life He re
sirns. they say. because he is seventy
two and tired. But VIII venture to say
mat while ne may desire a change in
the kind Of work he has been doing, he
vfll work in one way or another 70 the
ena. Far of be IL
There Is not in the government Of
Great Britain & post more difficult than
rbat Of Secretary Of State for India It
,o77bines the two things which make
great places in a great government bur
dersome-enormous departmental labors
2nd enormous responsibilities. The
Prime Minister has The responsi biliJies.
bur next 10 nothing TO DO as a depart
mental chief With the Chancellor Of
the ExcheQuer n ordinary times il is
much the same, except for the prepara-
zion Of his yearly budget. a great part
Of which is, in ordinary times. done for
him by Treasury officials. The Secre-
;sr-v Of state for War. on the other
land. is Immersed IL details whether Of
the War Office proper or. as now. Of
s-rny reorganization and reconstruction.
Of responsi biIities outside his Office he
has no more than any other Cabinet
Minister. When Afr. Cham beriain was
Sec-erary Of State for the Colonies he
took upon himself in addition to the in
-unerable exacting and inevitable duties
& The Colonial Office, vast scheme Of
rew colonial policy. Of which one result
Is thar today the word Colonial Is pass
frE Out Of use and the new word Imperial
has taken It's place These are examples
from which some notion may he formed
q what the India Office demands.
/ might not be thought that Lord
Morlev's career or his avowed principles
Of political action We're such as 10 fit
hin 70 rule India Nor We're they. To
take the last first he was a Radical. and
i there be on the face OF the globe a
sDot where Radicalism is most likely TO
n nlischievous Il IS India I do not
r-ean-I am far from meaning-that Lord
-Jorlev Is OF ever was a Radical in the
sense that the C0ttons and Eeir Hardies
are Radicals He was q phiIosophic
Radical Ike MIL; not a mere visionary.
Ee never had q taste or capacity for
TolirIcaI nonsense, nor formed his views
ur1u impulse. IF he was a Radical his
was z considered radic-lism: based on
faithful study Of facts and a logical use
q principles. Il IS q rare kind You
have 10 stop and think before you can
cite many examples. IN any case, YOU
would put Lord Morley first. Mr.. Glad
srcne2 But M Gladstone was never
z Radical He was essentially a Con-
se-va-ive. whereas Lord Morley is essen
italy a Radical
As 70 his career. what seems less like
+ 10 make q man z great ruler OF \
great military dependency than an ap-
prentice 10 journalism, TO politics and 10
l.te-ature2 Journalism produces jour
nal-s-s. politics politicians and literature
either students OF writer's or both; and
for no one Of the three Is there any very
important occasion in The India Office.
But this IS where the personal element
Genes in OF ali three Lord Morley took =
The most serious views. He edited The
Pal Mall Gazette in the same spirit as
that in which q Cabinet Minister admin
listers a department He wrote leading
articles which might have been speeches
from the Front Bench in the House Of
Commons. and afterwards We're. I Dor
row The Illustration from Hinglake, who
used Il Of Delane: as editor, though not
Es writer, because he never wrote.
W. Lord Morley took his mo-
rssrto1s decision 10 go into politics-a
PHRASE he would rebdke me, rightly, for
usirg-rost Of his friends shook their
heads True. he diG not break with his
past He never meant that the thinker,
q man Of letters. should be extinguished
IN the pOlitiCian- nor has he been To q
remark Of mine he answered by quoting
Thiers's familiar aphorisu7-farniliar. but
Rhich cannot be quoted too often
Journalism is q good profession, pro
Tided you get cut Of il soon enough
Arty enough. Lord Morley has lately
given Us his final estimate Of Thlers:
- shrewd, diIigent, unsparing and pa
r-otic statesman. but his famous history
q Consulate and Empire Is hardly more
than glorious pamphlet in score OF
volumes
Il other words. the journalist re-
-nair=5 2 journalist when he became an
historian. a man who judges others
judges himself" said Emerson I quote
tberefore. what Lord Morley said Of an
other statesman with whom he must
have Deen. as statesman, completely out
q sympathy:
"Guizot ranks far the highest among
lhose who in our time have both played
. conspicuous part whatever else we
nay say Of X. in the government Of
Eresr state. and made serious contrlou-
tons 10 historic knowledge"
Serious" is the key word II is what
Norlev mas always demanded Of every
BODY who entered upon no matter what
business in life. that it should be done
seriouslv- I began by saying TINS II
las 10 be said at every stage OF COM
meut upon Lord Morley's great career
True. il did not always bring him i'm