Salisbury's Jingoism

It ík (loni)tiiil if nny considerable hoily o" uien ( xjs1 nlni ha vc ;i sinoerer lo-( offairplay, a morehonet desire (o eee impartial Juetlce done, or a tnier respect For Bel'-restrained and and unselfish action, than the mafs of American nad riiitisb cltlzens. when Micy lay aaide personal prejúdice and calmly consider the liuht and -wrong o' a course of public or private pol!-y ; but it ís nvt at ;ill doubtful that tm Induce i li"in to do this would i:e pegardd as bad politics and worfe .'ouinali-im by the p-reat nuthorltiee In the pblitical and journalist !■ world. One of the pommonplaces oft hpir eoonomy. indeed, is that power con' sists, not po much in the clear visión ánd íirm graep of truth. nor in a plata and unadorned appeal to the est judgment of their fellow-citizens, as In a "pull" upon their prejudice, nji(l in an ability to arouse them to Wind and unquestioning "eñthueiasm." Henee the free coinage of watchwords in every campaign, wliioh as a New Emgland elergyman once 8uggesed to the writer, is likely to prove as dangerous to the commonweal as the free coinage of silver. DouMle.s8 it has been so since politics began. The demagogue and 1he poor are ever with us. I have eited thé case of Lord Palmerston, however, because it is fo marked, and because its iniliience has proved io ïasting. The Jingoiem of the Marquis of Sal!sbury , for instance is undoubtedly a culture trom the original Palmerston microbe, although the virus may have become eomewhat attenuated iri the process.- Edward M. Chapman, in the February Century.