Connecticut western news., 1889-04-03
MIR. GLADSTONE
He Moves the Commons-A Splendid
 Tribute to John Bright.


 Tribute to John Bright.
 In the House of Commons, after the Right Hon. w. H. Smith had spoken few words with reference to the death of John Bright, Mir. Gladstone rose. He was received with loud cheers He said:
 MT. Bright has been, to a very remarkable degree, happy in the moment of his removal from among us. He lived to see the triumph of almost every great cause to which he es- pecially devoted his heart and mind. He has established a special claim to the admiration ,: those from whom he differed through his long political life by marked concurrence with them upon the prominent and dominant questions of the hour. Hear, hear.) While he has in that way opened the minds and hearts of those with whom he differed to ap- preciation of his merits, he has lost nothing by that concord with them on the particular subject we so much represent Though Mir. Bright came to be separated from the great bulk of the Liberals on the Irish question, on no single occasion has there been any word of disparagement.
 ''I was one of those who did not agree with the particular views he took of the Crimean contest, but felt profoundly and never ceased to think what must have been the moral elevation of men who, nurtured all their lives in the temple of popular approv- al, could at a moments notice consent to part with the whole of that favor they
 
 breath of their nostrils. Clear, hear.) They accepted undoubted unpopularity, for that war commanded the enormous approval of the people. It was at that time that, al- though we had known much of Mir. Bright, we learned more. We had known of his great mental gifts, his consistency, and his splendid eloquence. We had not known how high was the moral tone of those popular leaders, and what splendid examples they could set their contemporaries.
 rat nntc cfr OpIv hut active; not sympathes awaiting calls to be made upon them, but sympathies of a man seeking objects upon which to bestow the in- estlmable advantages of eloquence and cour- rage. In Ireland when support of the Irish cause was rare; in India, when support of the native cause was rarer still; in America, at the time when Mir. Bright, foreseeing the ulti- mate issue of the great struggle of 1861, stood as the representative of an exceeding ly small portion of the educated community of the country, although undoubtedly repre- senting a large part of the national senti- ment Clear, hear)-in all these eases Mir. Bright went far outside the necessities of his calling. Whatever touched him as a man of the great Anglo-Saxon race, whatever touched him as subject obtained unasked his sincere earnest and enthusiastic aid. Clear, hear.)
 lido not know of any st statesman of my time who had the happinness of receiving, on re- moval from this passing world, the honor of
  sal, and so unbroken. Clear, hear) Yet none could better dispense with the tributes of the moment because the trumphs of his lie were triumphs recorded in the advance of his country and of it's people, His name is indelibly written in the annals of Time and on the hearts of the great and overspreading race to which he belonged, whose wide exten- sion he reJoiced uo see, and whose power and prominence he believed to be full of promise and glory for the best interests of man. kind" :"
 Mir. Gladstone resumed his seat amid much cheering.
 Lord Harrington referred to the noble words of Mir. Gladstone as fully expressive of the yeneration of the country.
 Justice Mccarthy, in the absence of MT. Parnell, spoke for the Irish party. He said that the memory of the Irish people endured, and it carried them back to the time when MT. Bright championed their cause, and claimed the right of Ireland to lay an immor- telle upon the great Englishman's grave Mir. Chamberlain spoke of his acquaintance with Mir. Bright for thirty years, and said that throughout his political life Mir. Bright's relations towards his electors were those of entire independence.