Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-18
John Stuart mill On the Ministerial Crisis
and the Government
What he thinks of The Iories,-H. Opinion
of Mr.. Gladstone

What he thinks of The 1ories,-Hu Opinion
of Mr.. Gladstone.
AT public meeting held in Westminster, on
Saturday, June Oath, Mr.. j.. 5. Mill, Nj. 2.
spoke
% rising, he vas greeted with tremendous
applause, the "hoie assembly rising and cheer
ing with extraUrdlnary vehemeuce. He SAID
they we're called together that evening 10 order
that they might ask themse ives the gu, stion
whether or not the peop.e Of estminster
cared tor Reform. IGat the question be-
fore them, anu that Was the only ques IL n.
" no would be the men Tor whom Her Males-
" would end 10 form an administration If she
accepted lhe re- gnatlon OF her present advisers
ot course thy Cou.d Hot tell. Referring TO
Mr. Love, Ge said that ait ough be the
only man among the opponents OF lie present
ol who IN direct terms declared ne against
eli Reform whatever, yet all who had heard as
mad done the shouts Ct rejoicing winch
greeteu very aEti-popuar sentiment 10 which
Mr.. Lowe gave uttersnce. would known that
The whole OF the sy mpathies OF the Tory party
were az aiBst any measure OF Reform, whatever
it might be. tie ben.yed that there were only
two opinlous as 70 wna might be the
the Conservatives would pursue If they were
aole TO form ministry First, whether ,hey
would propose Reform bill at all /; and, sec
ond, whether they would propose a ketJrm
bill which was not Reform. They said that
any bill on this subject must be compromise.
Well, the Liberal party made compromise al
the oommencemeat of the season, and a very
great compromls- 1t Was. They gave the best
part U. the matter IN dispute 10 the Tories and
Low after the Liberals had given up TO them
the better haff, they cried halves for the re-
mainder. Uaugnter.) The difference was
sr,tIt h.D ne
they wanted to spit the other part. But 1t
was worse even than that, and he was gong to
tell hem something which they had all the
means OF knowing, but which few had paid
much attention to, and very significant and
characteristic process 1t was. He would tell
them what proposed by one of the best OF
the Tory party. Ii workngman could occu-
py f1O house it must in most cases be by
letting some part OF it; but Sir Stafford North
cote proposed TO Oisfranehise all such persons
unless they were able TO snow that, after de-
ducting all hey received from letting they paid
fl0, or Ell, or whatever sum might be agreed
upon to their landlord. Probably he would
have spared those who we're at present on the
register but he would not consent hat any one
hereafter should De on the register who did not
pay his landlord that f1O, or Ell, or other
sum. That condition wblcn very few
working men could fulfill and if the PROPOSE
mosa lioera. of the Conservatives, what might
they expect from the others Hear, hear.)
Now as to the foreign policy OF the Torres, he
wished all those present could have iIstened as
he had done to the five hours of solemn abuse
of the Italians, in which the Tories INDUCED
when the Reform bill should have been brought
under discussion. Liberals, painting to help
and defen0 the noble Italians against the cal
umDies heaped upon Them, restrained
from entering upon the discussion, lest they
should have delayed the bill which the
hearts of rsfOrmers were set. But now came
the question OF the present Government. All
knew the manner in which they held up The
banner of the people through the late stormy
session. Their political enemies had been
taunting them and insulting them day alter
day saying that here was Government which
star ed with a clear majority OF ~, and mad
converted it into minority OF IL. We'll, so
they had, and Why had they done so There
was majority of ~ pledged to support a
LiOerai Government, and who would nave sup
ported them il they had followed out Lord
Palmerston's policy vi doing nothing, and sioss-
ing it of as an excellent joke. Inc Govern
m.nt might have seven years undistoroed
lease of power if they mad adopted . amiial
course-that is, ii they had determined on do
ing nothing il the way OF Reform. But they
had chosen 10 resign Office, to receive batting,
taunts and insults, directed against them ahe