The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20
PREMIER GLADSTONE.
The Wide Range and Vast Extent of the
Wcrk He Has Done for England.

wcrk He Has Done for England.
Margaret F. Sullivan. in New York Sun.
What range his industry and oratory have
covered! Aside from the sublime political ideas
upon which he has left an impress to last until
liberty itself perishes the list of minor practical
things which he mended for the country is curl
Gus and long. 1t was he who scrutinized the rel
alive values of 1000 duty paying articles and
abolished or lowered the duty of $50 of them be-
fore he passed from the theory of protection to
that of free trade. He devised ingenious weap-
ons with which to open the doors of Parliament
to the Jews and destroy the ancient
injustice which ignorance cherished against
them. He overthrow a Derby Ministry
on budget with the airiness of an acrobat. He
has manipulated budgets like an expert in leger-
demain, and embellished with oratory the taxa
ton of spirits, the interests of cab drivers and
hackney coachmen, the destinies of butter
cheese, oranges, currants, hops timber and tai
low. It was he who brought in the postofice
savings bank scheme. He was foster father of
half-penny postcards and half-penny hostages
for newspapers He has written many amend
ments of the laws affecting bankruptcy and
patents. and there is scarcely division
been explored by his penetrating facul-
ties, and relieved of burdens and restraints
The great measures with which he is Immortality
identified constitute the imperishable founda-
tons of his fame. The treaty of Washington,
the insertion of the principle of arbitration into
international disputations, as a mode and means
of settlement In lieu Of intrigue, bribery or war;
the disestabshment bill, the education acts and
university tests bills the abolition of purchase
in the army are among his high doinge. The
legislation still higher and broader the levelng-
up laws, the laws affecting suffrage and land
constitute his highest claim upon the admiration
and wonder of his age and will arouse vsnera-
ton in all ages to follow.
There is something soothing and satisfactory
in discovering that man who has wrought
these things against British grain is man
whose wisdom was learned in the school of ex-
perlence, and who had to take punishment like
others He has not hesitated to confess error
and, what is nobler STILL to avow that out of it's
consequences he acquired truth He has
atoned for bis msapprehension of the causes
and objects of the American civil war He
abandoned Toryism and cast off what seemed
to him an economic theory unsuited to a great
community. having to exchange manufactures
for food. He assailed the religious predictions
of portion of his fellow-men and Mr. Chamber
lain, as we shall see hereafter, tormented him a
little with that in this debate, but he has atoned
for it by removing barriers against them in the
high roads. He tortured Ireland. He is atoning
for that to-day, not by offering her compensa-
ton for the past it is true, for that is beyond
the power of any man. or of the empire ITSELF
or Of time itself. but by opening before her
weary and longing eyes prospect Of some sort
OF brighter future.