New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-30
Several Englishmen
OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT KINDS AND SOME womEN' AND MR
- FILsoN YOUNG AGAIN
Downright. 1918. by @. ". smalley)

the community. The Liberals them.
selves do not understand such tactic,
The greatest Radical / know RACES a,
his own Government for its weakness
/ asked a doctor. He said:
There's a better way than forcibls
feeding. The pangs Of hunger and m.
peril of death are both greatly exag.
gerated Let food be always within
their. reach, but no water. They mus
drink. They drink when they are hun.
ger,striking. even the stubbornest Of
them. Give them Cruel with milk in
and the problem is solved"
IL might be solved If the Prime Min.
lister would advertise for Home Sec.
rotary with courage to adopt a policy
Of common sense, both in respect Of
criminal outrages and of punshments
There also is a difficulty since the
Prime Minister and the Cabinet as
whole are responsible for the acts OF
each Minister. The act Of the Home
Secretary, or his failure 10 act, is the
act or the failure OF the Government.
Let II go far enough and the peopls
will relieve the Government of its re.
sponsibilities. The Militants who carry
on what they call war against society
are not popular They injure the limo.
cent, destroy property wantOnly. en-.
danger lives, interrupt business, imperll
public order and safety, and bring gov.
eminent into contempt. They have al
ready been hooted by the crowds about
the courts, and more than once would
have been mobbed had not the police
rescued them. There may come day
when the police are too few 10 protect
these sweet creatures. II IL should, Il
will he the last day of milltancy. Even
Mrs. Pankhurst would not like being
torn TO pieces by mob. They say
Ministers are afraid Of public opinion
IL they let a woman starve herself In
prlson. Do they mean TO wait till pub
lie opinion OF a quite different kind ex-
presses itself in the streets?
But | will turn from these more Q.
less serious matters, and have anot' =
Glance at one OF our minor enemies
Whether Mr.. Filson Young continues
TO lampoon America in his contriou'
tions to the Pail Mall Gazette as he
did in the English Review and In the
saturday Review I cannot say.
used to read them. or look at them,
with an open mind. which presently be-
came vacant. and | read them no more
They have one merit: they are short
and the italic type in which they are
printed attracts the eye of the casual
req der. The title is Things That
Matter: from which a word seems 10
have dropped out. II the head line is
meant 10 be descriptive, Things That
Don't Matter" would be more accurate.
or II the things sometimes matter II IS
Mr.. Filson Young's comments on them
which do not. They read Ike prefaces
to an incomplete essay.
Mr.. Young IS n practised writer but
he has not successfully practised the
art Of CONCESSION. The Editor OF the
Pail Mali promised they should be
tense, terse, unique. Unique | think
they remain: happily. The other two
adjectives were but expressions OF
fervent hope: the hope OF an Editor
ever in search Of novelty. They are
and loosely written; and COM
mon. Even that gift Of detraction
which Mr.. Young exercised at our ex-
pense seems 10 have been exhausted.
He finds, II appears. nobody but Us
vulgar enough to set his gall allow.
only American women, perhaps be-
cause they only have been kind to
him. provoke him TO insult. The only
coin he condemns IL the American dol
lar Whether the American woman or
the American dollar has done the more
harm to London is a question ne asked
but las not yet. think, answered. No
doubt II requires thought: hence Mr.
Young's inability 10 answer.
I suppose we may still take II from
him that riches from salt or soap II
only they be English, are innocuous'
Trace their origin 10 beyond the Az
lantic. and they are the root of all evil
The English woman who has the VII
to enliven society deserves-indeed she
does-all praise. Let her be American
and she becomes altogether misch!eV'
Gus. Or Is Il that Mr.. Filson Young
thinks il safer TO libel only the remote
or are we 10 infer that OF what Is
vulgar enough 10 deserve his censu1e
We Americans. men and women alike
have a monopoly? one admission
however, | will freely make. | do NOT
think Mr.. Filson Young's d!atribes have
in the least degree diminished English
good will TO America and Americans. III
that full stream the trickle OF MS
venom Is lost u W'S
AT NEWPORT.