Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17

Cllt III lllOlC enthusiasm ll'ih iR u
ness and brevity. His delivery was, like
his language, plain and homely, but it
was as genial and impressive. 1t was
that of a thoroughly sincere man. who
intensely felt what he expressed, and
whose words were the exact reflex of his
inward thoughts. Often was he branded
as an enthusiast and u visionary, but his
bitterest opponent never taxed him with
duplicity.
sin his personal Intercourse. he was gen.
tie, sympathetic, and singularly unas-
suming. lie unconsciously exercised
over all who came in contact with him,
whether relations, friends, or strangers,
that undefinable magnetic influence
which few possess, and which none, if
they have it not, can acquire-an intlu-
ence which irresistibly attracts attention
and regard, sometimes Difference and
sympathy. He received everybody, from
the highest to the lowest, with the same
frank and simple courtesy, and his con-
dolence and assistance were extended to
every sufferer by wrong. whether nation
al, sectional, or personal. To quote an
able representative of the working class
es: a cause might be despised, obscure,
or poor, he not only helped it all the
same-he helped it all the more. d.
In the day of triumph he shrank modest
ly on one side and stood in the common
ranks; but in the dark or stormy days of
'front.'"
He was thoroughly English in tastes.
habits, and predictions, but. according
to his creed. the interests of England
were not only consistent, but identical,
with those of mankind at large. He re-
pudiated and abominated the doctrine
that the prosperity of one country is in
compatible with the prosperity of the
rest. He was deeply convinced, and al
ways spoke and acted on the conviction,
that the precise contrary is the truth,
and that each nation is most prosperous
when all the rest are prosperous. As Sir
Louis Mallet expresses it in his excel
lent Introduction to 'Cobden's Political
Works; Golden believed that the real
interests of the individual. of the nation,
and of all nations. are IDENTICAL 1t is
to this enlarged and cosmopolitan view
of the relations between MAJ and man.
irrespective of the artificial boundaries
mapped out between nation and nation,
and also to the personal intercourse he
held with the leading men of all coun-
tries during his frequent travels on the
Continent. that Golden owed the univer.
salty of his fame"
"When, in the plenitude of his power.
and az the zenith of his career. he wa:
taken from our midst. a pang of regre
throbbed throughout the whole of the
civilized world. His loss was hardly
more deplored, or his memory more eulo
gised, at home than it was abroad. Wei
did Drouyn de Lhuys, the French for
eign Minister, in his official despatch OF
the occasion, designate him the inter
national man His influence was pure
ly personal. for he held no office: but i
was all the more weighty and wide
spread. He was interchangeable in usin.
it, and he never used it except in a caus'
which he deemed Just and holy. Plu
tarch's pen has drawn no nobler char
acter."
Again we quote p. 50:
"Meanwhile. the state of the countr'
was most deplorable. \ bad harvest
the universal %stagnation Of trade. and
financial crisis had combined to sprea,
the deepest distress and desolation anon,
all classes of the people. But it wa i
the manufacturing districts that the SUI
ferings were most frightful. Some O
the details are quite appalling. and test
fly to ali intensity and universally @
restitution. starvation. and misery t
which no period of temporary distreS
since the adoption of free trade in Eng
land can show the slightest approach
In Leeds. there were 20.93G person
whose average earnings were ulluer OH
shilling a week. In Nottingham, l0.5s
persons (nearly a fifth of the population
were in the receipt of parochial relic
In most of the leading trades of Bi
%mingham, the men were earning one-ha
and, in some cases, one-third of the
usual wages. while some of the master
were so near ruin that they had, on
Saturday night, to pawn their goods
pay their mems wages. In Paisley. thi
ty failures took place within two month
and one-third of the wage-receivers we
thrown upon the pnblic for support. ]
Manchester, 1000 families, after havir
pawned every article of furniture and
, dress with which they could possibl
dispense, were supported by v%oluntaI
charitable contributions. One-third
the population of Coventry was out
!, work. In Spitafelds, 5000 looms we
idle, and $4,000 persons thrown upc
parochial relief. In the MetrOpoli
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