The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1904, Page 17

— 3 %Pagcs 17t0 el ' Pages 171024 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1904. ENGLAND’S MOST DISTINGUISHED PLAIN CITIZEN TO VISIT THIS COUNTRY AS THE GUEST OF ANDREW CARNEGIE, HIS WA John Morley, the .Friend and Biographer of Cladstone, Is Coming to America to Study Tammany Methods. Oct. 1.—At last,Andrew s succeeded in getting his r rony, John Morley—un- most intimate of his 0 the man who of late zence over him—to him to America. ng pair will set forth er having talked it stle pr: to go W Hon. John Morley will He comes nearer than being the successor of istone, as England’s 1 plain citizen, part- name as a man scause of the \oteness of the which he sits, sadly on the ing that goes udd s a shrewd and sympathetic hn Morley 1 Israel Zang- Mantle of Elijah,” who is about s for the first e hero. There- e of the only man n whom the King has invented order worth considerably rley than the peerage 1d if he had cared for wdry things as coronets. devotion to John ced as to have be- ver the states- he Commons oc if he car get there Skipo millionaire, d as If it were g like a school gets a chance. r ‘Carnegie comes to London y assorted pals -are of the time, of Skibo is latch string is t friend. The ntly n'M ther most Laird the the s dear IS CALLED “HONEST JOHN.” t Morley’s profound schol- gifts, his achievements or his at he owes the unique upies in public differ from s piniop—the majori- ne so—but political are all one in d rock honesty of ich has won for quet of “‘Hon- se of Commons. age of his par- ends many good men things and in quieting their Morley stray a what he believes Jurse. placable rectitude he fur- g example early in his In the general then been only the House—he stood for ized labor had there f the eight hour day their Parliamentary should adopt the sams believed that com- ion of the hours of la- ve action was inimical nterests of the workingman. He bey the mandate, even if t him his seat—and it very nearly ellectual may ke John readth from the right o eer. ey y @&s Chief Secretary for Ire- he was faced with the necessity, ce with English law, of n appealing to his constituency for n. Opposition to him on account attitude on the eight hour ques- was stronger than ever. The tion temptation to temporize would have been irresistible with most men now His defeat would have staggering blow to Gladstone’s government and might i volved its collapse. Apart from nsideration of his own political , on seemingly high patriotic nds he might have found plausible for tempering with his con- t But such a course never med to have suggested itself to his SCORES ANOTHER VICTORY. went down to Newcastle, nailed | with’firmer hand to the mast, t over again and won it a greatly increased majority. he way, Gladstone’s se- orley as Irish Secretary caused a personal estrange- he Grand Old Man and producing & rift within quickly widening, made their friendship mute. ishful Birmingham member had ed the office himself. vate life Morley is described as enjal of hosts and cor- ful'companions. But one which marks him as a of his feliows. his youth have ap- 1ong walks Crk ™ t s in does he ady seat eldom goes relaxation is Balfour, he is While 1« pears as the er large he ap- »diment of hard, cold intellect, he is as tender with animais as if he were a believer in metempsy- chosis. At one time when living in the country, some distance from Lon- don, on the top of what is called the Hog’s Back, he indulged in the luxury of keeping a horse, and the noble ani- mal used to be sent to the station to meet him. But he could never bear to ride behind the horse except when on a tolerably easy gradient. The horse used to walk down the hill to meet him, and used to walk up again in front of him, and it was not until he reached the summit of the hill that he entered the vehicle. While most men can’t abide cats he is very partial to them, preferring them to dogs. INTENDED FOR THE CHURCH. It is rather curious to recall that John Morley, who, when he first sought to enter public life, was fiercely as- sailed as an atheist, and denounced from the pulpit because he once spelled God, Christ and the Holy Ghost with- out the fnitial capitals, was designed by his father, a Blackburn surgeon, for the church. But in his Oxford days he 1l under the influence of John Stuart teachings, and for him, there- the church was impossible. It he imbibed that efter, was from Mill's works pasgion for justice which has always distinguished him Coming to London in the early six- ties, when just over twenty, he sought to make a living by his pen, and went through the usual Grub street experi- ence of young literary aspirants, at one time having to sell some of his be- loved books to keep the wolf from the door. But hard times did not last long with him. His powers of logical rea- soning, combined with the charm of his literary style, soon gained him recogni- tion, and he was invited to join the band of brilliant young men who were fighting the early battles of the Satur- day Review. The late Lord Salisbury, Sir William Harcourt and other men who subsequently helped make history, were among his associates on the Sat- urday Reviler, as it soon came .to be called. In 1867, when only twenty-nine, he was made editor of the Fortnightly Review, a position which has been called the Blue Ribbon of the English literary world. For fifteen years he controlled its destinies and meanwhile wrote some of his best known books. Then he entered. the realm of daily journalism, and for three years was ed- itor of the Pall Mall Gazette, with W. T. Stead as his assistant. It was rather hard on Stead to have went more or less in awe of him When the thundercloud gathered in his eyes, or the gout was prowling abou his extremities, we all minded ow: p's and g's at the Pall Mall Gazette But we all liked him, and for my pai. I had never worked with any one be fore with whom comradeship was 2 orce such a pleasure and such 2 stimu jant.” MAIDEN SPEECH A FAILURE. Morley was only 27 when he first tried to enter Parliament—and met with crushing defeat. Many years hc waited before trying again, and it was not until he was 46 that he found a constituency with sufficient faith in him to elect him. His career in the House of Commons has furnished a striking exception to the rule that only those who enter it in their young man- hood can achieve high Parliamentary renown. But his maiden speech was a failure. It was carefully prepared, ful! of weighty matter, and read beauti- fully, but as he painfully stumbled through it, with parched tongue and blanched face, it fell flat. It seemed to his friends that the disciple was destined to repeat the tragic Parlia- mentary failure of his master, John Stuart Mill. The position that he has long held as one of the ablest speakers in the House of Commons " was acquired by slow, dogged effort. He always had it in him, but for several sessions could not get it out. As a platform orator he now shines even more than as a Par- liamentary debater. But it was some years before he mastered that art by discarding carefully prepared addresses and letting himself go, trusting to the “fire in his belly,” to use a favorite Carlylean phrase of his. It is only a great man that can win the friendship of great men, and many great men have been numbered among John Morley's friends. The intimate relations that existed between him and that apostle of sweetness and light, Matthew Arnold, are well known, His biography of Gladstone is a monument to another friendship. But among all his friends, the one who exercised the most beneficent influence over him, when his mind was still in the forma- tive period, is, as he has acknowledged, George Meredith, the novelist. It was Meredith, more than any other, who took him out of himself and awoke in him that feeling for nature which has S vorEys e ST e IBLERa| ':7'!,]-105”9”;‘{6_/’95 fi}-’;}fi RIGH T 755 iiS LIBEARY < pes = i o Fo— FAMQUS BRITISHER SOON TO I 151’1'.4ME1€IC:’.. to submit to Morley’s blue pencil and to find his articles returned to him, as he records, “with all the most tell- ing passages struck out,” for Morley was a great stickler for severity of style ind restraint and sobriety of ex- pression. “But,” writes Stead, “there was never any trouble in the office. He believed in authority and I believed as implicitly in obedience. No one ever took liberties with Morley. Every one 2 ever since remained one of the greatest pleasures of his existence. MORLEY’S RELIGION. There is no space here to go into the question of Morley's religion—or lack of it. That is set forth in his writings. But denunciation of him as an athelst, because he rejects the claims of Chris- tianity to be regarded as a divinely inspired religion. has long given wav to THE RIGHT JHONORABLE Hleb, e, oo MORUEY RM ADMIRER — By N AU 0,000 VOLIMES AT 49./!?02952‘ DNZVERSITY -, o the perception, among the best - ex- ponents of Christianity, that he is a man of intensely reverential spirit. He (The Divine). The last verse is weit Mr. Morley lives. Literally translated Jo wresd,, SIY IBY} pusaly B PO} d0uU0 Life” was Goethe’s “Das Gottliche”— worth quoting as the faith by which it runs: *Tis the glory of man To be helpful and good, Unweared procuring The useful, the rizht: A prototype so [] Of the gods we grope after. So, groping after gods and finding none, to this faith of his, both in his precepts and his practice, he has cer- tainly been true. “The one command- ing law is that men shall do right, if the very heavens fall,” he says some- where. He is a veritable Puritan of" politics, with a passion for righteous- ness. Most characteristic of the man was his presentation to. Cambridge Univer- sity of the late Lord Acton’s splendid library, which Andrew Carnegie had purchased as a gift for his chum. “For some time,” he wrote to the chancellor - of the university, “I played with the fancy of retaining the library for my own use and delectation. But I am not covetous of splendid possessions; life is very short and such a collection is fitter for a public and undying in- stitution than for any private individ- ual.”” Sad rings that sentence—‘life is very short”—from Mr. Morley, for he will soon be within four years of the allotted span. WILL STUDY TAMMANY. For many years he has wished to visit America. Alfred Mosely wanted him to come along when he took out his educational commission, but Morley was then too busy with his “Life of Gladstone” to accept the invitation. Besides, as a member of a delegation, Dledzed to a specific object. he would hardly have found an opportunity for doing much spying around on his own account. He has always been greatly interested in the working machinery of American pclitics and is immensely pleased that he will be able to witness the fierce battles and final scenes of a Presidential election. Incidentally, while in New York. he will investigate Tammany a bit and try to find out the secret of the Tiger’s strength. HEduca- tional and industrial mattérs will en- gage much of his attention and gen- erally he will try to ascertain why Uncle Sam is forging ahead of John Bull sb fast. As the biographer of Cobden ‘and one of the great apostles of free trade it is not likely, however, that he will become a convert to pro- tection. He will be heard occasionally in public, having already consented to address the Pittsburg Chamber of Commefce cn November 4. He is one of the men who never permit them- selves to be interviewed in England and the American reporters wil! prob- ably find him as hard a proposition to tackle as the Archbishop of Canter- bury. . £ ———————————r CARNEGIE HAS TROUBLE GIVING AWAY ORGANS Turns Over Distribution of Church Musical Instruments to His Edin- burgh Library Specialist. LONDON, Oct. 1.—In future An- drew Carnegie is going to exercise a little more discrimination in the dis- tribution of his surplus wealth. In erecting and endowing free libraries "here he always called in the advice of Hew Morrison, librarian of the public library in Edinburgh, before he ad- vanced a cent, but he invariably re- lied on his own discretion in the dis- tribution of organs for churches. The present church trouble in Scotland !s causing some anxiety to Carnegie be- * cause a number of the free churches have decided that musical instruments must no longer play a part in thewr services. Carnegie has been lavish in his generosity toward many of the churches; in fact, it is said he has never refused an application for a new organ from any sect. Carnegie organs, if not so conspicuously dotted ovar the British Isles as Carnegie libraries, are not less numerous. A large num- ber of applications. for .organs were treated by the generous Skibo laird as confidential, with the result that there are scores of churches through- out the country provided with beau- tiful organs while only Carnegle and the minister in charge know who pre- sented them. Carnegie’s metifod will now be changed and Morrison is go- ing to be saddled with the additional responsibility of being adviser in the distribution of money for church or- gans. ——— i CONTINENTAL TAILORS WATCH KING EDWARD Sartorial Artists in Search of Ideas Take Note of Monarch's Apparel at, Marienbad. LONDON, Oct. 1.—While King Ed- ward has been taking the cure at Marienbad tailors from France, Ger- many and other countries of Europe have been taking note of what he wears that they may be prepared with new fashions for the gilded vouth of the Continent. The fact is not with- out significance. One philosophical historian has pointed out that the power exercising chief political influ- ence for the moment has genevally also held sartorial sway over its ci- vals. Thus Englishmen once took their doublets from Spain, whilé later the fine gentlemen of the Grand Mon- arque set the fashion in England, whereas the fops of France now send to Bond street for the cut of their coats and trousers. While Paris still holds supreme sway over the realms of feminine fashion, it is London which leads the mode in the matter of male attire and the King is the ac- cepted authori on what constitutes. the ‘“‘correct 3 - LEARNING 'THE IRISH TWO-STEP Duchess of Manches- ter Wins Popularity in Old Erin Takes Active Interest in Work of Gaelic League, Oet. Duchess” of not e 1.—The nt LONDON, Manchester, becoming a resident ben on captivating the Irish heart by iden tifying herself with the r al of the ancient Irish custor and pastim being assiduo cultivated by the Gaelic League About twelve months ago, while stay- at Tanderagee, now For the first time & wi step-dancing—a quartet o what is known as the four-hand The Duchess was s6 initerested that she sent for the young w and asked them how long it had taken them to, learn this form of dancing. The maids, who did not claim io be perfeet, told her that any woman with ordinary skill would be able to do as they did in six months under proper tui with a fair share of praetic and then she engaged a tea O’Connor, and at T the Duchess had in Irish step-dancing. For -a time Miss O’Connor traveled with her wherever she went, and at the end of six moriths she had made such progress with her pupil that she was able to leave ler to her own Miss - O"Con nor took up her residence In London for a time and paid o nal visits to resources. the Duchess to see that she was not forgetting anything .she had been taught. g AN ACCOMPLISHED DANCER. Her Gra as accomplished in Irish jigs and reels as is the more fashionable dances of ‘the society ballroom. She paid.her teachér hand- somely and promised to send her on a number of pupils take the matter up professiona is said that the Du now ing Scotch step-dancing and that s If she- des ed ¥ It study- to has engaged. a_ professional otch teacher. She has all of the healthy American girl's - dislike of being Te- “stricted to the merely conventional. Both the Duke and Duches are much disappeinted that they are not yet able to go to Kylemora instead ‘of Tan- deragee for the Irish season. Thay had arranged -for "a sh fishing -party among the Ecenery of their Connemara rhansion. When it .was thought that ev was in perfect order at Ky electric lighting machinery w and at thé eleventh hour all mor, Aarrange- ments had to be canceled .as fax as Kylemore was concerned. The Duchess is commencing to feel like the "late owner of the mansion, who refused to live in it after his daughter—his only child—was drowned in the lake neas the castle, that bad luck haunts the place. She has had no.end of trouble and dis- appointment over the dhfir(l[mn:{. which. have now been proceeding there for two years, although it was originally es- timated- that the place would be fit for occupation in at most ty months after the builders had commenced. VANDERBILT IN IRELAND. When George Vanderbilt went to Tre- land: a few days ago onm a visit to Lord and Lady Crewe, he had only in- tended to stay about a week or two. The beauties. of the county of, Wex- ford impressed him so much, however, that he determined to see more of the Emerald Isle. The slowness of the Irish’ trains and.the otherwise bad facilities for traveling caused him to wire to London for his motor car, and now he and Mrs. Vanderbilt are doing Ireland thoroughly. Having explorsd all the places ‘of interest’ in Wexford ' and Wicklow, ' Vanderbilt decided to- go through Tipperary to see something of the famous Plan of Campaign—a scheme of the Land League organiza-, tion which was supposed to create new villages to.replace those that had been devastated by the’ Irish landlords in consequence of the non-payment of rent by the tenant farmers. Vanderbilt proposes to see Killarney before he re- turns to London. 'He went throusgh Connemara, visiting the magnificent home ‘of the “Duke .and Duchess of Manchester, and called on his way to see the quarries. from which the celebrated Connemara marble is excavated. The Duchess of Marl- borough is much interested in the prod- ucts of these quatries and much of the marble, which contributes such an im- portant feature in her new London res- idence came from there. Vanderbiit carried away some specimens of the marble with him to show, as he said, to his friends in Paris and the United States. - 2 —_————— Jules Verne Has New Navel PARIS, Oct. 1.— That veteran fiction writer, Jules. Verne, who has attained the ripe age of four score years, is to publish a new story, entitled “Automo- bolisme,” which, it is said, will be even more interesting to old and young than any of his numerous works of past b L NPV \