Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18
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Editorially q recent issue OF the Boston
Globe says; Any ideas which have been
entertained by inimical persons that the
Rev. Flayius Jossphus Cook had Lost his
Incompatible self-appreciation of superb
GRITTY to the rest of mankind may as we'll
be relinquished after his yesterdays per-
Torrance. his opening statement was as
rich as anything which even he has ever
uttered 81 owe more to my father than
10 any man living There will be no
dissent from this remarkable statement.
Since Mr.. Cook owes his own awful
and majestic existence to his father, il
may be readily conceded that he is con-
siderably indebted to him.
According 10 Mr.. Cook, his father said
to him: "You will be needed to defend
the oppressed, the freedman, the Chinese,
the Indians" This is somewhat COM
prehensive mission, but no one will be
hardy enough to nssert that Mr.. Cook has
felt bound by the limitations OF his
sphere which his father placed upon him.
There can be no doubt that Mr.. Cook him
self believes that he ia needed to instruct
a suppliant and humble world on every
conceivable subject which can possibly
arise, and, to do him Justice, he has per-
sistently addressed himself to the task
That the world, instead of being humble
and suppliant as 1t ought, has too often
proved stitf-necked, rebellious and even
soothing is not Mr.. Cooks fault. He has
harangued it all the same, and the world
must suffer the penalty of its heedlessness.
After these preliminary remarks, Mr..
Cook expressed his sovereign contempt
for Herbet Spencer Agnosticism, Uniyer-
salism, and everything else which differed
from his own theories and beliefs, and
then proceeded to instruct Mr.. Gladstone
on the government of England and the
management of the Irish question. Mr..
Cooks genius is peculiarly versatile, and
he thinks no more of shifting from the
discussion of the oosmic philosophy to
the construction of the British cabinet
and the future of the British empire than
he does of stepping from the door of
fremont Temple to horse car.
II is to be hoped that some arrangement
was Immediately made to telegraph to Mr..
Gladstone Mr.. Cooks valuable advice.
The grand old man is well known to be
very sensitive, and he might take it as a
personal slight if he was allowed TO go on
| and form an administration without the
benefit of Mr.. Cocks wisdom. Time is
| precious to Mr.. Gladstone. Whatever he
may do must be done without delay, and
if Mr.. Cook has unaeeountably neglected
to cable to him, the omission must be
| supplied at once. AS true weh-wisher
of the British lion, with all his faults,
we tremble at the consequences il Mr..
Gladstone should be allowed TO grope
blindly in the dark without the electric
illumination which Mr.. Cooks instruc.
tions would shed upon him. It must not
be. Much as Mr.. 0Donovan Rosa hates
England, and justly, we feel sure that,
rather than the telegram should not go, he
would pay the fees from the dynamite
| fund.
| Mr.. Cook carelessly remarked, in the
course of his address, that he was an
abolitionist, q prohibitionist, friend Of
cosmopolitan reform, and a traveller
around the world. But he forgot to men
ton his possession of a much more con
, epicuous attribute, which he disclosed Cal
least to inimical persons) every time hs
opens his lips and speaks. He has nj
cause to utter the aspiration which
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Dog
berry.