The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-01

Disraeli began as a radical, thence
through-a scheme OF party which he called
..Young England TO what Is much the
same. an enlightened. conservative pro-
gress.
With regard to the Education Acts it is
true that England was behind most other
countries in education by centralized gov
eminent. but it would seem absurd to sug
gest that general education IN England
was behind that in Portugal. Spain, Italy,
Austria. Russia. or even France; and more
over the burden and heat OF the existing
plan was horne by. and should be credited
to Mr.. Forster rather than 10 Mr.. Glad
stone
With regard to the abolition OF purchase,
II may or may not have been the abolition
Of an abuse. Opinions amongst the best
informed on the subject differed so widely.
that Mr.. Gladstone. unable to pass his bill
through Parliament, discovered ana fur
bished up an antique and almost forgotten
prerogative and decreed the abolition by
ROYAL Warrant. Had this been done by a
Tory" good deal would have been heard
about reactionary or imperialist govern
ment
OF the pacifying effects of Mr.. Glad
stones Irish policy, which includes a
couple of stringent coercion Acts, every
mail brings us intelligence, from Phoenix
park or the Tower OF London, or West
minister.
Forty-fou years ago, Macaulay des-
cribed Gladstone's style of speaking. as
rhetoric often good OF its kind, which
darkens and perpleNes the logs II should
Illustrate" Again; He has one gift most
dangerous 10 a Spectator, a vast command
of a kind Of language, grave and majestic,
but Of vague and uncertain import No
description of Mr.. Gladstone's speeches
could be more apt at the present day.
Gladstone Is the greatest financier Eng
land has ever had He is a whole souled.
honest. supremely conscientious, upright
man, a gentleman and scholar in the
highest and hest acceptation of the term
His very failures are the result of a deli
cacy and sensitvenesS to an ideal of alb
stract right and wrong. In matters OF
finance. education. reform of abuses. in
internal progress, he Is the greatest states
man OF the age as an equivalent TO for
eign statesmen, with regard to foreign
affairs he is as great failure
Professor Wayland seems to think that
title. hobnobbIng with Princes and am.
bassadors was an objective point IN the
public life Of Disraeh II this were so,
how comes it that in public life of forty
wears. man Of such infinite resource and
so unfettered by principle, should have
passed thirty OF those years in the cold
shade Of opposi6oni'
Disraeh entered the House of Commons
in 1897 4 poor man, intensely ambitious
and conscious Of his powers. 1t was not
until 1882 that he first held Cabinet nor
until 1858 that he became Prime Minister
Is this greedy. unprinciplcd selfseekng
He was seventy one years of age when he
accepted for himself peerage previously
offered and declined. He needed rest
No man knew better than he, that trans
fer from the House OF Commons to the
Loris was a distinct loss of political
power.
He needed rest, he was no longer eager
for power. He had fairly earned and
wisely used power He had fought his
way through evil report and good report
from comparative poverty and insignih.
canoe, to the highest place and honor that
an EnChshman can attain, and his worst
enemies cannot accuse him Of misuse OF
place and power
His was very singularly constituted
mind. he Was equally proud of his Jewish
descent. and of his English citizenship,
he reverently worshipped the grand old
ideal of his ancestors, and was passion
ately Jealous Of England's place among
nations
There Is no space now on which TO re
capitulate many Of Disraeh's Legislative
achievements. The Act for repression d
bribery at elections, for the equalization,
Of poor rates, the acquisition OF the tele-
graphs for the Post Office, the Reform
bill 1867. and the purchase of the Sue
Canal shares. may be mentioned
Professor Wayland remarked upon tho
heritage left to Mr.. Gladstone by his i'm
mediate predecessor; it might be perth
entity asked, that if Mr.. Gladstone's ad
ministration be near its close a. seems &c
be probable. what sort OF heritage it viii
be. that be SUCCESSORS will come into.