Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-03-09

UUnon Roo1esea-1lks An British
nuueA ns = ovsssAsaewsA By Gisd.
11n nasssa = Clspsrsp-Hs h q
l1nn = runssss - nelissos.
~ oGedina1 Newman was to the
~ bs4gioD movement fifty years
H ~ Donlsl ONCcunell was to Catho.
II G1p1tacn at still earlier period,
- e11e John bright was to the cause
T. ~ tp0ds q period much nearer
60 Time. John Morley Is 10 the ex-
1ical movement In Great Britain.
- - mcoe prominent leader and in
nooGg. There is this important dis.
W, however, to be drawn between
y ~ tie illustrious men with whom
~ nnNo Gce the moment associated his
Dos 1hat they created the movements
8 - oAsy led, whereas Mr.. Morley, be-
- - entrance into parliament, was
l4 - of many equally able men
- teochfngs contributed to the form
1Don q british radicalism. He is now
oognlned as its spokesman and leader.
- Radicals are tho advanced section of
- liberal party and the political radi-
z11am Of today will be the political
osalism Of the near future; hence John
MCe3eys position, as the leader OF the
I RADICAL wing, marks him out as proba-
H. successor to Mr.. Gladstone, though
~ William Harcourt actually occupies
- post Of deputy leader of the whole
party, and is the heir presumptivo of the
Isadership. -.
Political radicalism may be defined,
according to the old formula, as the gov
GEnment Of the people, for the people, by
- people; and 1t has found many sup
pogten among those who are strongly
Anti-Fadical in other respects. and who
v3sw with repugnance the radical creed
. regards morals, or religion, or philos-
ophy. Mr.. Gladstone, for example, is
radical in politics only.
As Mr.. Gladstone saw he was 10 lose
NJ. Chamberlain he determined TO at
tach Mr.. Morley, and he accomplished
this by making him chief secretary fof
ireland and a member Of the cabinet,
and Mr.. Morley thenceforth became his
right hand man in furthering the cause
Of self government for Ireland. Mr..
Morley has displaced Mr.. Chamberlain
and succeeded to the exact position in
ths Liberal party which the latter occu.
pied before he separated from Mr.. Glad
stone. Whether no will retain his popu-
lkrity with the masses is question
which depends on his willingness to
adopt tho ever changing principles or
theories OF the democracy.
-.
Strange as 1t may appear, 1t is never.
fheless true that Mr.. Chamberlain won
his way to q position in the Liberal party
second only to that of Mr.. Gladstone
himself, by advocating the doctrines
of Mr.. Henry George concerning land,
and BY declarations in favor of the poor
which could not be distinguished from
downright socialism. Mr.. Georges the
ories had, at the time, attained tenn.
porary hold of the English workingmen.
1he artisans Of the towns were somehow
persuaded that their interests lay not in
The spread Of manufactures, but in the
subdivision Of land, and the improve
ment Of agriculture, two things which
were put before them as standing in the
relation Of cause and effect. Mr.. Nor
ley labors under tho disadvantage
of requiring reason for every step ho
takes. He lacks many Of the character
1gtics which made Mr.. Chamberlain so
popular for time. and his politics
I are more Of tho rational than the
emotional order. Mr.. Chamberlain did