New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28

as most remarkable when the Prime Minister sat
down. that tho finest speech he ever delivered In
| the House of Commons was in support OF Mr..
Bradlaugh. and the worst speech he ever delivered
was, by common consent. in the cause OF the
Christian hero That is an instructive historical
contrast"
There is much to be said about Mr.. Gladstone 5
relations 10 General Gordon but now is not the
time. l will but ask you 10 note that MIR. Glad
stone is never so good as when he Is advocating
Il cause with which he has little sympathy. MIR.
Bradlnugh as an unbclcvcr OdiOus to him.
and he put forth his full strength in his cause.
Lord BcaconsGed was OF all his opponents the
whom he found most antpathetic. and his
eulogy upon Lord Bcaconsfeld is far finer per
Torrance than his eulogy on Blight, who was
his comrade and friend.
Mr. Chamberlain Is not spared Mr.. Cham
berlain is a very clever man. who has succeeded
in persuadng his party that the tactics OF Il
town council are identical with the science OF
government; but his time has been occupied
with developing the gas supply and the debt of
Birmingham that he has never read English his
tory But Mr. Chamberlain need not now de
tain us, nor Others on whom Lord Randolph +
lash has fallen many time heavily. Many of
his pcrorations are carefully wrought out. That
which winds up the Manchester speech of 1854
on The Government of Failure is not the best.
but "A good average example of Lord Randolph ;
emore elaborate manner:
" But seeing what / have seen to-day, and
hearing what have heard elsewhere. ] now feel
confident and sure that the British Nation. hat Ing
TO decide between the House OF Lords ana its long
centuries of great tradition on the one hand and
the faults and the follcs and the failures OF Mr.
Gadstone's four years government on the other,
which they viii abolish ard which they will
preserve Will. by their wisdom, by their knowl-
edge, and by higher than earthly guidance, award
the palm and the honor and the victory to those
who, conscious Of the mmcasuraDlc responsible
Ties attaching to hereditary House. have dauut-
lcssy defended against an arbitrary Minister the
ancient liberties of racer
Those sentences would bear revision. but
dundancy is in young orator one Of those faults
which presently ripcn into virtues. lie has the
root of the matter in him. and though it is in the
nature of things that flowers should come earlier
than fruit, they are sometimes to be seen To-
gcthcr on the same tree. For you cannot read
one speech, still less can you go through this body
of discourSes on 50 many different subjects, with
out feeling that they are the work of Il man who
has mastered his Subjects who is no amateur, who
shrnks from no labor with definite purpose be-
fore him, who is capable of affairs, and capable
OF mparting his knowledge of them to other
people; II man with something more than the
courage of his convictions; with the strength Of
intellect and Of will and Of character to impress
them upon the public. and sooner or later to en-
graft them on the Institutions Of his country.
If an American who has not taken the trouble
10 follow English politics closely reads these
speeches he will surely, | think, come TO one
clear conclusion He will find some inconsistencies
in them He will not always approve Lord Ram
dopl's attitude TO men of longer scrVirc than him
self in public life. He would like TO strike out
some Of the adcctivcS. He might be puzzled to
know exactly where the speaker stands on certain
oGcstionS: the Irish question for one. Various
other criticisms would occur to him; of more
or less consequences But he would, ] apprchcnd,
say to himself that though Lord Randolph is
called u Tory Democrat there is great dca!
more Democrat than Tory about him. He would
recognize in this young Englishman, artist ocrat rs
lie is BY birth and position, true champion of
the people He would that ne is disposed 10
seek for the foundations Of things where they are
to he sodght in America. and that he had adopted
for his own guidance Lincoln's memorable doctrine
Of government Of the people by the people and
for the people. And he would be right in con
Guiding that Lord Randolph stands nearer 10
the English people than any other of lis party,
and that sooner or later the English people Will
prefer him before all others. u. W. s.