The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-27
PHILLIPS ON GLADSTONE.
The silyery-T ongued Orator soathingly
Pictures the Grand Old Man "A
Careful Estimate.
HIS "LIBERALIsM' CONSIDERED.
Not @ Drop Of Liberal Blood in all Mr..
Gladstone's Body Wendall Phil
lips Opinion.

The following speech was del1veied b
I Wendell Phillips in Music Hall, Boston
! in October 1881, on the occasion of Mr.
parneu's incarceration IN Kiimainhan
Prison:
'sFBnIow CrrIzENs:-W all remem
| Der that twenty years ago, under chi
roof, the men who could not be an
swered, were mobbed so in Eng
lend to-day, the men who cannot be an.
swered are put in jail (Applause.) I
1 Gladstone could have answered Mr.
Parnell, he would have appealed to ar
gument, civilization, and intellect He
/ felt himself weak in argument and ap
| pealed to force.
III that great struggle when freedom,
hung in the critical balance IN these
thirty eight American States the voice
| that came from the great leader OF the
Liberal party (Gladstone) was al Amen
| to Jefferson Davis, who tried to turn
1 this free Republic into slaye-holdiDg
| despotism (Applause.l What wonder
| that the same man to-day should do his
utmost to perpetuate slavery among the
| people of ireland?
Il don't believe thare is drop of lib
aral blood in Mr.. Giadstone's body
(Applause.) In his youth he was firm
and unyielding Tory; and the Jews have
proyerb, Don't trust convert even to
the third generation He thinks he IS
going to subdne Ireland. Well, men
the latchet of whose shoes he is unwor-
thy to unloose has tried that job 700
years aud failed (Applause.) Cicero
said to Roman bully, 7 have laughed
at Cataline's sword; what do I care for
yours? So Ireland may say to Glad
stone, Cromwell could not conquer me,
nor William ILL.,, and I forced Yelling
ton for the third time in his life to SUR
render. What care | for this windy
Tory in Whig-skin2" applause.
aMr. Gladstone sees daily 6, ZOO, 600
men and women, heart broken and pov-
erty-stricksn, on the soil Of Ireland. He
may cover it with troops from Belfast
to Cork, and from Dublin to Connaught
but he hasn't reached Ireland as she
stands in these patriotic breasts, he has
not reached the 20,00o,0OO burning
hearts vino have never forgotten their
motherland. Besides, the civilization
of the age is fighting for Ireland The
fiery cross of Land Reform is lighting
the hilltops of Scotland; the waters are
flooding the world. What is one man,
what is one Administration against the
spirit of the age? Why, serene and
beautiful spirit laughs at race or
great name when it sets itself in oppo-
sition to the great movement of civili-
zation. Do you remember, in that old
Legend Of Northern mythology, where q
giant undertakes to drink UP what seem
a tiny streamp But as he proceeds in
his task he finds the stream connects
with the great ocean, and he is trying
the vain task OF drinking up the ocean.
Now Mr.. Gladstone sees only 5,e0o,-
900 or 6, 0G0, 900 Lishmen; he doesen't
see the great spirit of humanity, the
civilization of the age behind her, and
he might as we'll try to drink the ocean
as to attempt to conquer the living
spirit which for 700 years has asserted
itself (Applause.) He is engaged in
task which is impossible. For TOO
years, depopulated, starved, trodden
under foot, Ireland, with the cross of
her faith in one hand and the emblem
OF her nationality in the other, has defied
the most obstinate, the most tyrannical,
and the most triumphant kingdom on
the face of the earth applause land
she stands to-day the pivot OF British
politics, on which turn and by which
are judged the great civil questions of
liic LIZ : AfeA 1dSeS. "A ~ y G. Wiz BodStSI
undertakes to do what for 100 years
Englishmen have tried TODD and faiiedl
IApplause.l Oh, mol OH. no! Mr.. Glad
stonel You may thrust starving
women and dying men out of their
homes; you may stamp out everything
that is happy in ireland; yes, perhaps
for 8 moment you may stamp ont even
every thing that is happy N Ireland; yes
perhaps for q moment You may stamp
ont even resistance, but liberty knows
nothing but victory. Applause
Looking out on the present and jndg-
ing by the past Ireland will stand happy
and prosperous when Gladstone's name
viii rot with Wetterbnrne, Lord Eden,
and Lord North. prolonged applause J
Rev. Father o'Reilly's latest report
dated March /, acknowledges the re-
ceipt Of $5647.75, contributed during
January and February.