The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-09-16

lndlStlnCt. lie mas Decn lnakllS
notes during the speech he is to
answer, but he will not refer to them
once he is on his feet. His form as
he stands at the side of the table,
upon which he lightly rests one
hand, does not seem rs tall rs it
really is, so delicately is it proper
toned. l wish there were words in
which to convey the sound and fibre
of his voice, for until you are able
to associate this with your image OF
the man the mental picture fails. 1t
is unlike any other voice, just as
Sarah Bernhardts is; it has in it
self the power of generating new
sensations, new thoughts in the
listeners mind; it seems to have
something of primordial weirdness
in it's suggestions-lik the ocean or
the ''forest primeval. OF oratory,
as such, there will not be much.
There will be nothing at all to re-
call Wendell Phillips or Webster, or
to suggest Castelar, or Gambetta. 1t
is not even the eloquence of Bright
or of Joseph Cowen. There are no
gestures, save limited movements
with one hand; there are no swell
ing outbursts of the voice, no tricks
of rounded evolutionary periods.
One feels only at the outset that
great man is terribly in earnest;
then, as the slow, careful, logical
sweep of speech goes ON one feels
that its earnestness is contagious
one catches its spirit, hangs approx
ingly upon its development, thrills
with enthusiasm at its climax Of
conclusions. The great orators
when / have named could electrify
Legislative assemblage, play upon
its emotions at will, blanch its
cheeks, quicken its pulses, COM
mand it's widest plaudits, but
after the speech was over the votes
would be cast just as if it had not
been made. There are no such
physical excitements in listening tc
Mr.. Gladstone. He does not storm
your senses-he conquers your
reason, convinces your judgment.
This tremendous power of persu
aston is the key to the whole man
1t accounts for both his strengthant
his weakness. He is so superb, 81
matchless an arguer that he can leat
English sentiment around after hin
, wherever he wants to go. But he i
also so wonderful casuist that HI
, persuades even himself out of hi
own judgment sometimes, and the
leader and led alike go into tn
ditch. Sentiment and shrewdnes
are curiously mingled in his menta
p control. He may be as cautious an
wary as Machiavelli up to certai
point; then he will be for q time a
open and unsuspecting as Lad
q Jane Grey-and then, all at once
flame forth with the passionate fel
! vor of Loyola. Yet all the tim
v he will be, in his intentions, deepl
! conscientious and sincere. Towar
whatever point of the compass hi
h steps may really be directed, hi
: moral vision will be fixed upon til
: north star of political enfranchis'
!. ment and advancement. Hence
e has happened that while the clev'
IS men of his party, able at least to Sc
=. that he was temporarily in the wror
~ path, have often held aloof fro
If him, the masses of the English pc
III pie, having supreme faith in his i
tentions, have followed him blind
through good and evil report. Al
now, when Mr.. Goschen and Lo
~ Harrington feel constrained from o.
No point of view to part company wi
ie him, and Messrs. Chamberlain al
a. Trevelyan from a widely differe
" standpoint are threatening to desc
:, him, l believe that the people
- England are more united in syn
W pathy with him and support of hi
~ than they have ever been before.
IS Be that as it may-and the que
~ ton will soon be put to the test
ne there will be no dissent to the pr
Iv position that the House of Commo
je will be another and different boz
!. when he drops out of it. Since ID
O. raeli left the House Gladstone h
De been sort of heroic survival in it
es the last of his race. In office or @
nv of Office he has so monopolized
he tention as to literally dwarf his 1
Nv sociates, colleagues and opponel
On alike. There has been nobody
is share attention by his side, mu
ri less to stand against him. He Is
,er veritable CULVER among Lillil
at tians. Long since the query beca
iii familiar to Liberals, Who will lie
,is when Gladstone dies? and the effo
lid to answer it have only served
,as show the measure of Hartingto
SITS incapaeity, side by side with Cha
IN berlain's unfitness. But mt
nd general question still forces its
la upon a student of Parliament he
CIV Who will render the House of Co
The mons Intellectually respectable eN
Dse when Gladetone is gone? And TIN
he seems to be no answer at all to t
WIN question,
at Every American is familiar W
ON the theory that the day of
say men is past in America {
ore with the illustration which