A Famous Trio.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 August 1910, Page 4

A Famous Trio.

LOU!) RANDOLPH'S OUTBURST. A writer in the Now York Tribune refill Is a eun vernation in whiicli Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr Chamberlain :iikl .Mr Archibald Forbes, the wellkiinwu war ('o rirsiMJJi iltMit, took part. They were all tivrco men in the sply'itdour of tlieir brillianlt. powers. It was after Iniic=liet>ii. Tlio. ladies had gone. Lord Randolph had b.vn Sec lift arv of State for India and Forbes, like Lord I* a 111! a l]>li, had o.en in India, and the talk turned upon India. All three were men \\■!■;> spoke (heir minds. herd Randolph and l<'orl)e.s differed sharply. Neither s'tood in awo of the other, or of any num. Forbes would make a statement. Lord Randolph would answer:— "I kiwiw you have been in India, b'i( I'soni what you say I shouldn't suopese yon knew where it was." Lord Randolph would go oil to point out what: ho thought Forbes' snist-'krs ; and Forbes would reply: — "Yes. you have ruled India, but the real India is :i sealed book to yi.ii." .And v-'> on. I're.seiit.lv they discussed the Indian Civil Service, nnci Aii Chamberlain came to tlio front. In l!i" new Civil Service lay. he ''bought, the hope of India. Appoint- ; ments were no longer jobbed. A new class of men wore brought into the .service by examinations; well taught, well trained, competent, ami sr.awu from (.he whole people of Fngland. L-.'K'd Randolph liste,tied impa'tiently : inlerrn.pled now ami then, b.!!. en the whole, listened. When .Mr Chamberlain had finish- . d L'O'd Randolph burst out :—"I have hnnrd that before. Xo greater nonsense was ever talked. What is the Indian Civil Service; or, rather, what was it p A boy of (twenty we:i't out as a clerk. From Calcutta he was sent up country, nominally in ibarg.-, of a bureau, really to govern a district. He did govern it. iL> I:•! 1 pissed no examination. Very likely he couldn't 'tell you the date ■a! the battle of Rhi.ssey or the lineage of a nat ive Prince. Ho had 110 mathematics, no Latin, and probably couldn't .spell. Put ho had character. He knew how to govern because, he camo of a governing class. And he was a gentleman. "Whereas now"—looking steadily at o!:iamborlam—"instead of gentlemen you get men that come, from Pirniinubam and God knows where." Mr Chamberlain, who seldom declined any contest to which ho wa.s liiivited, sat cool and smiling while Lord Randolph launched his shafts. When he had emptied his rpiiver the member for Binningh.am, sit/ill cool and smiling, observed that he thouihsrt it was time for them to join the ladies : und tliev did. Instantly the sky cleared. India was forgotten. _ The two combatants walked upstairs arm in arm, and tlvo-storm was as if it had never been.