The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-18

low him away north to the banks of the
| TWerd. You will see him "dresS the
part" in honor Of the lordly salmon, be
will SON persuade 20 accompany him
home to dinner. John Bright is stall
wart fisherman. orthodox in e1tolhng
the rod and e1ecrating the spar, and
he will discourse more eloQuently-and
veraciously-upon the haunts and
habits of the king of the fishes than
any in the throng of his Parliament
brothers in the art, who love TO gather
round and hear of his hauls. This fish,
ing hobby is John Brights only vice,
except his merciless smuggling of his pc.
litical foes. He drinks no intoX,cauts,
l think he never began to try. am
not sure if he smokes, but he fumes,
and that right heartily.
| Hear him when he harangues the
throng. Look at him as he marches to
his place with an air imperial as that of
knows by some photograph that leonina
head, the profile of lofty forehead, the
straight, clear-cut nose, the broad
pouting mouth, the bold chin and
strong neck. and the graceful flow of
abundant white hair like hons name.
He is typical gloSaxon, a true
Briton of the n0blest mould. His ma
jeStic air strangely riyets the audience.
The bell-like c!earness and Fesonauce of
his voice give charm as of poetry te
his virlle prose. Gladstone is, in an
other line, as fine an orator. but Bright
has the gift Of speaking our mother
tongue in It's simple purity. Gladstone
is a Latinist, and his long words run
into long, involved sentences that are
ometimes hard to follow in long ad-
dress.
Bright knows no language but English,
but of that he is the most perfect mas
ter among Englishmen. He once told
US that he owes his unequaled COM
mand of the language to his preference |
for reading the Bible, Bunyan, Milton, |
and the English poets, down to last |
century. In these we have "a we'll of |
English undeiled," of which il were |
well if the young men of to-day would |
drink more than they do. The beauty |
Of Brjght's speeches lies in their grand
simplicity, not of thought but of con-
struction and expression, l have heard |
him often, in the old days when h1n-
bred thousand clamored for a word
from his lips, in the great hall where his
crowd for his annual ora
ton. aud in the House of Commons
Wherever it may be, you listen to the
same stately opening OF the case. in
which calm common-sense is lit up with
humorous CLEANS as he shows the weak
side of the adversary's statement. Then
follows the plain presentation of the
.eot-facts. in his man-ot- business vein.
Every now and again there is biunt
exposure of some glaring Inconsistency.
which you never thought so important
before, and when he hears and stes that
lis point has gone home, then fall those
ledge-hammer blows of argument
demonstration, ridiculc, scorn, which
10 more In one hour to demolish z
wrong than the pleadings of other lead
rs accomplish in month. lam not ,
xaggerating. There has not been q
.reat triumphant movement in England
hese forty years that has not ended ,
With tributes of these kind being
leaped upon Bright by all the other
rators When he has spect the vol
me of his stirring harsneue in this
orient Of denunciation, his gentler ;
ones come back, AMI their music makes