New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-03

uo"' .so Duke of Sutherland has suf-
Inv INA a change for the worse. He was
- the best examples of a class
s,rst which Socialism and Radical
have for twenty years carried on
Time was when a man in his po-
.,.,or Of his responsibilities and duties
"A ~ his vast possessions. was con-
',aered a pillar of the State. He was
=. saw the least. a partner. Burke de-
e.od the state as "a partnership in all
..,snce; partnership IN all art; a part
..rship in every virtue and in all per-
action a partnership not only between
hose who are living. but between those
uho are living. those who are dead and
.bose who are 10 be born" Bol'ud up
nth the conception of the State -'ere
,be elements of permanenCe. Of un.
b,oken continuity, in the social fabric:
Each contract of each particular
STATE is but a clause in the great
nrneval contract Of eternal society.
linking the lower with the higher nat
urss connecting the visible and in
visible world, according to a fixed COM
psct sanctioned by the inviolable oath
which holds all physical and all moral
natures each in their appointed place"
Against that doctrine there has been,
since the disappearance Of Mr.. Glad
stone from the leadership of what was
once the Liberal party a revolt. In
place Of Mr.. Gladstones leadership the
Rsdicalized Liberals have accepted the
leadership Of Mr.. Lloyd George; with
results some of which are seen Of all
men. There is, apparently no contract,
no tradition. no inheritance from the
psst which Mr.. Lloyd George and his
disciples hold inviolable They are
enemies Of the past. They give no
heed TO its lessons The world is TO
be made modern. in their image. His
tory Is but a record Of ignorant mis-
takes which they set themselves to
rsctify. l have quoted Burke and I
will quote him again, though for Mr..
Lloyd George the wisdom OF the most
philosophical of all thinkers on Eng
lsh politics is foolishness. Burke says:
ITO avoid, therefore, the evils OF
Inconsistency and versatility. ten thou
sand times worse than those of OBJ
stinacy and the blindest prejudice. we
have conSecrGted the State; that no
man should approach to look into its
defects or corruption but with due
caution; that he should never dream
Of beginning its reformation by its
subversion that he should approach
TO the faults of the State as TO the
wounds Of a father, with pious awe
and trembling solicitude."
But 10 the modern Sociaistic Radical
the State, so far from being con-
secrated, is but plaything to pull TO
pieces, or an object Of experiment in
political vivisection. Upon those
landed or other possessions heretofore
reckoned a proof Of general prosperity,
they have laid violent hands. They
wish 10 redistribute wealth. and the
death Of the Duke Of Sutherland gives
them an opportunity in which they
exglt He was the greatest land owner
in the kingdom. He administered
property greater than many a princi-
pality, with innexible justice, tempered
by a benevolent liberality; a policy
based upon a conviction that between
landlord and tenant there is a com
munity Of interest. II is probable
that in order 20 pay death and
succession duties, part Of these estates
must be sold. In so far as they pass
into the possession OF the tenants, no
great harm will be done. But if they
are 10 become the property Of men who
take purely commercial views OF the
relations between landlord and tenant
the tenant will be a greater sufferer
than the landlord. Lest that should be
thought q reflection upon MIR. Car
negie, who bought Skibo from the late
Duke. ] will add that have always
heard Of Mr.. Carnegie as an owner who
thought II no shame 10 his business
!astincts and principles 10 mingle win
them liberal humanity toward those
dependent on him as landlord he
could have no better example than the
Duke himself
He was not stage Duke. On the
boards Of Drury Lane he would
have been simply lost. The martial
outside was not his: or not in it's ag-
sressive form. The Earldom Of Suth-
erland dates from the thirteenth CEN
fury and the Gowers-the original
family name-were long a race or
soldiers. The Dukedom is no older
lieutenant in the Second Life
Guards, then was lieutenant colonel
OF the Sutherland Rifles from 1882 to
1871, and ended as President of the
territorial Force Association Of Suth-
Gland. the county OF which he was
Lord Lieutenant. He was honorary
colonel also Of the Staffordshire Yeo-
many and Of the Seaforth Highland
efs. But when you met him you met
quiet looking gentleman, little un-
yer middle height, with a manner all
me more attractive for its quietness;
he alert, erect bearing Of the soldier
sun notable. His business was no
'onger war, but the administration Of
ms immense estates: to which and TO