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THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 13TB, 1926

A GREAT PHILANTHROPIST. LORD SHAFTESBURY AND HIS

WORK.

{BY THE REV. C. A. ALISOTON, D.D., HEAD

1

MASTER OF ETON.)

nabas, stirred the frenzy of Exster Hall FIRING ON SHIPS IN YANGTSZE

GORGES. against the Ritualists.

But it is an easy and a profitless task

to hint at the weaknesses of great men, For more than four years, ya the and Shaftesbury was a man who, P. NCC, Daily News, foreign vessela operat- far as this country is concerned, richiring on the Yangtze above Hankow, but merited his place among the Makers of between Fehang and Chungking, special- the Nineteenth Century. "No student have been subjected to all sorts of of the history of the century," as his insults, abuses and indignities at the biographers remark, would omit him hands of the various military parties from the gallery of those who helped to create or to destroy institutions, habits, beliefs, that were full of significance to that age and full of consequence to his

as successors."

The masters of these vessels, navigating what undoubtedly is one of the three most dangerous stretches of water in the world, have more than enough to make them anxious in protecting their ships from the incessant dangers of the river; but when, as is now coming to be the he championed the Factory Act, the Re-rule rather than the exception, their |

ships are fired on, wantonly and without the shadow of a justifiable pretext, their lot becomes more unenviable still

It is a melancholy fact that the lives of good men are seldom as attractive to read as those of soundrels. No think ing person, it may be honed, will readily accept Swinburne's antithesis between the "ilies and languors of virtue" and

the raptures and roses of vico "

The names of their chapters suggest the affording an explanation. It is doly the. very exceptional criminal who career variety and the uniformity of the causes is rapturous and rosy, and what fatigues us in reading the rareors of the virtuous form of the Mines, the Ten Hours Bill, is precisely their inability to be languor- the Agricultural Labourer, the Lunacy Law, Climbing Boys-the names suggest o A man who is consumed with a desire to improve the world is fatiguing controversies in all of which, Shaftesbury company, and his ceaseless energy, in took a leading and an honourable part, for he was not one whose enthusiasm for whatever field it is shown, is a continual challenge and rebuke to the natural a particular reform blinds him to the necessity of others. Wilberforce might laziness of the reader.

concentrate on the slaves, or Bright on Free Trade. and be not unjustly blamed for indifference to other good esures. Shaftesbury was throughout his life the champion of the poor and the oppressed, whatever caused their poverty or whoever was guilty of their oppression.

It might seem at first sight that there is more reason in the saying of the old Greck that while there are countitas ways of being bad there is ultimately only ane way of being good, but the monotony ich this suggests is not to be found in lite, and the suggestion may be arded that the life of the average bad an presents less variety than that of his rival. Still, the fact remains that "more people will pick up a book called "The Lives of Twelve Bad Afen" than one called The Lives of Twelve Good Mer. They will probably be disap painted, but their hopes of entertainment will be higher.

JOHN HOWARD.

If the term "good men is limited to philanthropists (a limitation for which there is no real justification) the charge of monotony is easier to sustain. Anyone, for instance, who has had oc- casion to wade through the biography of the great Mr. John Howard (whose cen- terary we celebrated this year) will find that his previous standard of dullness in (The biography was miserably low. phrase, it may be mentioned in passing. is a theft from Sir Francis Doyle, who was wont to say, in commenting on Wordsworth's confession that he got drunk in honour of his first visit to the rooms Milton had occupied as an under- graduate, I am afraid that the poet's standard of intoxication was miserably

low").

In the last three months there has been a marked revival of this practice of every Tom, Dick and Harry in a military uniform considering himself justified in having a little target practice with the hull of a passing foreign steamship as the object, and only yesterday we had to report to glaring and uncalled-for cases of vessel of the Indo-Chin Steam Navigation Company being fired on.

We hear now that a few days ago ship of another company was fred on There were no without rhyme or reason. REFORMS THAT LIVE.

casualties, and the vessel continued on Some of the reforms which he brought her way without much damage having about are concerned with issues which been suffered. The next ship of the same are still alive in some cases his success company that wished to pass the same was so complete that a later generation spot was however, stopped by the military is in danger of forgetting that the scan-authorities in control of that district. dal ever existed. Climbing boys," for instance, have ceased to be even name except to readers of the Water Babies,"" but there was no single achievement of Shaftesbury's more personal, mare dramatie or more ease of the unhappy children employed in sweeping chimneys had been before the public for a hundred years before it was anally dealt with, and no one can any how much longer the scandal might have endured but for his tireless energy..

characteristic. The

We and a difficulty in believing that the fate which nearly befell Oliver Twist was still a possible one in this country fifty years ago, and was liable to befall children as young as four and a half. The Act which came into force in 1842 was largely disobeyed, and in 1853, after several boys had been burnt to death in the process, it was still possible for noble lord (whose chimneys were among the most unclimbable in the country) to

and a bill presented to the master for the cost of the ammunition that had heen used in firing on the previous ship! If any of our renders can supply us with a more glaring incident of shear elrontery, we should very much like to know of it. "EASE HER: STOP HER; GO ASTERN."

There has been quite a big buyi ness recently in shipping, motor-cars. from Shanghai to Hankow. A few days age one ear was sent up from Shanghai, The owner had neglected to empty the petrol tank and to shut off the petrol. He also left the gear in reverse. Conse- quently, when the coolies at Hankew came to move the car from the deck of the vessel they found themselves one- fronted with unexpected difficulties. They swarmed over the car in their efforts to see what was wrong, and one bright youth, evidently of a mechanical

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| To return to Mr. Howard: his life, suggest that the Bill then introduced was it is true, was consecrated to one pura pitiful cant of pseudo-philanthropy," bent, gave the self-starter a vigorous Tuse and contains few episodes, except The Lords were more easily convinced of push with bis foot. The car immediately a marriage with his elderly landlady, the scandal than the Commons, who removed; in fact it moved so strongly and other than those connected with his visits jected the proposal to forbid the employ so quickly that before anyone realized to prisons. But the pitiless fashion in ment of boys under sixteen, and for what was happening it had made its way across the deck and over the side into which these are recorded by his admir- twenty years more boys continued to en-

ter the profession at six (a nice the turbid waters of the Yangtszer And ing biographer: the entire absence of any

the name of the vehicle that is able to Temperaturs details except the bare facts of his dis- trainable age"), to have their elbows and coveries: the way in which the hero is knees specially hardened by rubbing with do all of this of its own accord Wild described as our unwearied philanthro- strong brine, to be bought and sold for horses would not drag it from us!--0.

the indefatigable traveller," the purpose (Nottingham boys being Daily News. pist,"

the painstaking investigator," and the worth most to sell) and to be sufocated like, combine to break down the patience at frequent intervals. It was not till of the most hardened reader. Truly, the 3675 that an annual licence was made author, whose name I have forgotten, compulsory, just a hundred and two was one to whom Lowell's description of years after the remedy had first been another biographer might be applied, suggested.

He tramples out the last spark of geniality with the broad damp foot of a hippopotamus”

A MAKER OF THE 19TH CENTURY.".

THE HARROW BOY.

It has only been possible to mention in detail one of the causea to which Shaftes bury devoted his life, but the specimen is as characteristic as it is bonourable. Lord Shaftesbury, whose birthday was The inscription on Harrow Hill, which April 28th in the year 1801, has been more tells how the shocking spectacle of a fortunate than Howard. His official pauper's funeral stirred him as a boy to biography, it is true, is havy reading, devote, his life to the poor, records an but he has been fortunate in his last bio-important event in English history, and graphers, Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, who the day is worthy to be compared to that wrote the volume describing him as one of other day when Mr. John Howard maun- Full particulars and Demonstration the Makers of the Nineteenth Century. ted his horse and rode off into the neigh- bouring county to see whether there was any real excuse for letting gaolera make profit out of their prisoners.

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All broken, chafed and damaged Packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined in the presence of Consignees by on 15th June, and Mestre. Goddard Douglas 1926, at 10 am. Clams against the Steamer delivered must including those for Cargo aborti

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Arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.

They have done for him something of what Mr. Coupland recently accomplish ied for. William Wilberforce, and if their picture is not as attractive, the fault lies in the main with their subject, and not with them. Shaftesbury had no sense of humour: bis eyes can never have twink led as did those of his great predecessor, nor had he any period of youth in aby way comparable to those delightful years in which Wilberforce frolicked happily with the younger Pitt, before the latter hed developed into the Heaven-born Tel. C. 4704 Minister."

*

Tel. C. 47

There are some to whom this absence of humour will seem an absolute baz to greatness. The suggestion is an attrac tive one, but reflection shows that it is at least as hard to draw up a list of men undeniably great who had a real sense of humour as of similar men who lacked

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cap to men of action. Coxid Napoleon have afforded one And even men of letters, who might be expected to need it more, have been curiously, lacking in this direction. Shakespeare is an ex ception to this ns to all roles, but it may be doubted whether any other great Eng- fish poet except Chaucer and "Browning

have possessed the delightful but dan

gerous gift

.f

In any case, to leave these high levels

of speculations, there is no question that

the gift of humour was, one which Shaftesbury did not possess. It is not the characteristic grace of that section of the English Church of which he was so illustrious, a member. On the other hand the Evangelicals of England have a noble record of care for the poor. It is far from being a moropoly, for most of the ritual troubles of Queen Victoria's reign arose from the devoted labours in the slums of extreme High Churchmen; the Modernists have, in fact, sometimes been exhorted by their own prophets fo PARTY) emulate the self-sacrificing devotion of the other two great bodies of English Churchmes

Shaftesbury was what would to-day be called a Fundamentalist, and he did not waste on the views of other Chris- tians the large charity which he showed towards the poor. Everyone knows his characterisation of "Ecce. Homo" as

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from the jaws of hell," and a famous speech in which he declared that he would rather worship with Lydia by the river ride than with a hundred sur [24pliced priests in the temple of St. Bar-

It is not unduly fanciful to say that Mr. Howard, the High Sheriff of Bed- fordshire, never returned from that ride, but continued it, as Howard the philan thropist, to the day of his death, just as the Harrow boy of fourteen who was going down the Hill had changed in a moment into the great Lord Shaftesbury whose name will be remembered as long as, London stands-Evening Standard.

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