St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-28
Iectual face.

lectual face, open and winning,
while showing in the square, firm
chin and strong-lined mouth the cour-
age and tenacity he had shown through
out his public career. The high-arched
coronal spoke of the strong religious
tendencies of his character, and there
was in his bearing and presence the
unmistakable Quaker air of calm and
auietspower.
Il have another and far brighter vision
before my gaze. 1t may be vision,
but cherish it. see one vast confed-
Grafton, stretching from the frozen
North in unbroken line to the glowing
South and from the wild billows of the
Atlantic to the calmer waters of the
Pacific main, and | see one people, and
one language, and one law, and one
faith, and all over that wide continent
the home of freedom and a refuge for
the oppressed of every race and of every
clime.''
Mr.. Bright has always looked the
leader of men. He maintained pleas
ant, dignified manner, cordial, yet with
something of the brusQue directness
sense of power and public reponsibili-
ties. This somewhat increased in later
years. In conversation Mr.. Bright was
a charming talker. easy and ready, and
without any tendency to prosiness.
Mr.. Bright has been the finest
and highest representative, in
telleetually, of the wealthy manufactu-
ing and nOncOnformiSt middle class
which the English have produced in
this century. Mr.. Gladstone belongs to
commercial family, allied to the
landed aristocracy. and is himself a
university man. Mr.. Bright was edu-
Gated in Quaker schools and college,
came to manhood in the stress and
storm of dissenting discomfort, was bred
a.'Liberal' in the electoral reform agi-
tation of 1882, and became a power
in the anti-corn law discussion of few
the latest British sense, never sympa-
thiZed with the social and economic
agitations of organized labor, and
always held to the most orthodox views
of the British economists in these mat
ters. He was also decided COnserva-
tive in exterior imperial policies. Mr..
Bright, at the outset of his public
career, was vehement speaker. His
impetuosity was electrifying.
Mr.. Bright was born at Greenbank in
1911. He joined his father in the fac
tory at sixteen years of age. His first
speeches were on the subject of temper
ance. capital punishment and the corn
laws. He first entered parliament in
1S43, and became ceaseless advocate
of free trade. His friendliness to the
North in the American civil war gave
him warm place i'm the hearts of the
American people, When even SO far
seeing man as Mr.. Gladstone declared
! the cause of the North to be hopeless,
Mr.. Bright said:
1t was John Bright who kept Great
Britain from recognizing the Southern
Cenfederacy. In 1868 Mr.. Bright ac-
eepted office under Mr.. Gladstone as
president of the board of trade, but re-
signed two years later on account of ill
! health. In 1878 he joined the cabinet
as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancas-
ter, an Office he again accepted when
Mr. Gladstone returned to power
in 1880. In 1882 he resigned his
with his colleagues on the war policy in
Egypt. Mr.. Bright was an ardent I'm
ionist and was firmly opposed to Mr..
Gladstone in his fight for home rule.
The two old statesmen had in the past
few years waged bitter war of words
against each other. but there is no
donbt that in their hearts they were
thoroughly devoted to each other.
BOTH PARTIES CLAIM HIM.
The flags of both the Liberal and
Tory clubs were flying at half-mast to-
day in honor of the memory of John
Bright, each party claiming the dead
statesman as their own. Every evening
newspaper, even the Star, prints letter
eulogizing the famous Birmingham COM
moner, and Home Rulers, one and all,
have forgotten Mr.. Bright's Unionist
sentiments often strongly expressed,
in their admiration of the sterling
qualities Of the man. NO arrange
ments will be made for filling
his vacant seat in the house of commons
until after the funeral, though it is ru-
mored that Mr.. Chamberlain has already
cast his line with view to becoming
the great mans successor. 1t is un-
! likely, however, that such move on
the part of the Radical leader will be
countenanced, and if the dead mans
youngest son, who is staunch
sUnionist, will accept the can
dldaey, he will be returned to
his fathers seat without opposition
as anexpression of the esteem in which
John Bright was held by his political
friends and opponents alike. For the