New-York tribune., 1885-02-24
GLADsroNHS TRIBUTE TO WAsHINGToN
From The Loaton Times.

From The Loadon Times
We reprint this morning from IHE NEW
Yogk TElBl NJ n characteristic letter which Mr. Glad
AID scd last autumn to The London correspond
ent Of that rapel 1t deals wtn sa9eet tnI hye Ios
speaking and the character Of the National hero Of
the Americans. The starting point o the discussion
was a remark thrown out by one Of the guests at
country house to the effect that reverence was declining
among us because there was nobody to revere. MI
Gladstone denied both and effect; there was
much reverence ever, aud many men rs ever who
than whose public career and life none bai been
noDler and more admirable. Then. with u bow
to his American fcllow-guest, the Prime Minister
proceeded: "Of course | except Washington.
lie. my mind, the purest figure III history Az
terward came up the question OF Imperial Federation
and what the Americans thought OF the idea. II was
answered they cared more consider the future Of
he M race an % over oor% ,ne wora ana
The future OF the world belongs TO who of the
same blood and language If we are true ourselves aud
our opporuutcs not of conquest and aggression but
of commercial development ana Dcnehcial influence
Then followed long c,ter attended for publication IN
Washington, and, after the precedent OF his own cee-
bracd article on Kin beyond sen c2niIontea some
ed to dwell with emphasis upon
the future Of the English-speaking race AS
nothing to 1t is cminently desirable In writing or
the Father OF the Republic; and this maxim Mr. Glad
stone evidently remembered and emphasized after his
fashion. 1t did to him. will
Of ms readers that here i esrtain @ inegn
OF union among Enslsispcakng peoples; Washing
ton great man. beyond question: soldier O eiD-
natural gifts ana hgll.mDdcd siacsDan but II
sounds little paradoXical to associate his name with
the promotion feeling of kinslip and union between
us aud American brethren.
Mr. Gladstone, like others who have had the same
vision, is lost In wOnder at the thought OF The
numerical future OF the Englisll'spcakins race lie
recalls the fact that century ago II numbered
some 15,O0O.OOO hc reminds US that IL Is now
a hundred millions and he looks forward, with Mr.
Barham Zincko and a French statiscian, to IL time n
century hence when IL shall number six hundred eight
hundred, thousand millions. These to occupy
the whole OF one vast continent, and indeed two for
Australia has TO be taken into account not to mention
these little Islands OF and a are to he united
by the bonds Of "a gigantic commerce. by the sense or
blOOd-rcaonship and by practical unity In laws aud
creeGs. To such united. there Will fall by
inevitable law the peaceful prlmacy" OF the world, to
reject which would be "grind apostasy" indeed
Thcrc il Of tho same sort IN the letter. and the
Prime Minister then very naturally hands his sug
by those who have more leisure than
he Indeed. # can hardly be expected that
an English statesman, AZ the time when he wrote
had on his mind only the exaspcTating Egyptian
question: the quarrel with the House OF Lords aud
the prospect wcarisonc autumn session, should
cupy himself very minutcy with the concerns Of the
latter half the twentieth century Mr. Gladstone IL OF
all statesmen, living dead the one most likely To oc-
cupy himself In that way at such tlIDe Dat even ne
must expect after awhile 10 ind other matters more
pressing. We too may be excused for doing likewise.
and leaving 10 others the full investigation OF these prob
lens OF the remote future. IL may be- AS Mr Gladstone
says that century hence the English speaking peoples
may DC in the enjoyment OF complete harmony AMI that
other natODs-fOr We suppose that We shall not
have quite crowded out the remainder OF mankind