The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-30
TRIBUTES TO BRIGHT.
We Shall Not Look Upon His
Like Again.
GLADSTONE's GRAND GRAFTON.
England and Ireland, and the World Mt Large,
Have Lost Friend. His Sympathies
Were UnbOunded.


ho1SeJof commons this evening was devoted
10 eleogies of the late John Bright.
The Right Hon. William Henry Smith
was the first speaker. Smith in a short
speech, described Bright as man of
thorough honesty Of purpose and of great
energy Of character Although
WARMLY ATTACHED TO THE LIBERAL PARTY,
he could not sacrifice his personal convlc-
tons for any Of these considerations which
have great weight with most men. His
memory would live long in the hearts OF
men, he would 90 down to the grave
FOLLOWED BY AFFECTION AND SORROW
Of his country.
Gladstone upon rising was received with
cheers He said: Mr.. Bright had 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 especially devoted
his heart and mind.
HE HAS ESTABLISHED A SPECIAL CLAIM
to the admiration of those from whom he
differed through his long political life by
the marked concurrence with them upon
the prominent and dOminent question of the
hour. Though Mr.. Bright came to be
separated from the great bulk of the
occasion has there been any word of dis
arrangement. Among other gifts, Mr..
Bright was delighted to be one of the chief
guardians Of the purity of the English
tongue. Hear, hear. He knew how
THE CHARACTER OF A NATION
IS associated with its language. Another
circumstance of his career is better known
to me than to any other person present. !
Everybody is aware that Office had no at
traction for him. but few can be aware
what extra efforts We're required to inGuce
him TO become a servant OF the Crown In
the crisis of '6S, when the fate of the Irish
church hung in the balance, it was my duty
to propose to Mr.. Bright that he become a
minister.
NEVER UNDERTOOK so DIFFICULT \ TASK. !
From II o'clock at night until o'clock in !
the morning we steadily debated on the |
subject. 1t was only at the last moment |
that lSS found it possible to set aside the |
repuEhance he felt at doing anything that |
might in the eye of any one, even of the |
more ignorant class Of his cOuntrYmen. !
appear to dctract in the slightest degree |
from that lofty independence of character |
which I have mentioned, which throughout |
his career he held.
1t was a happy lot to unite so many at |
tractive qualities. If l had to dwell upon |
them alone ! should present dazzling pic
ture 10 the world. 1t was his happy lot to |
teach moral lessons by simplicity, con
sistency, unfailing courage and coustancy |
Of life, thus presenting
A COMBINATION OF QUALITIES
that has carried US to higher atmosphere |
Hear, hear. His sympathies were not |
strong only, but active not Sympathies |
awaiting calls to be made upon them, but |
sympathies of a man seeking objects upon |
which to bestOw the inestimable advantages |
of elOquence and courage.
IpIreland, when support of the Irish |
ca,Ase was rare: in India when support !
of the native cause was rarer still; III |
america at the time when Mr.. Bright, |
foresceing the ultimate issue of
THE GREAT STRUGGLE OF 81,
stood, as the representative Of an exceed
idgI(small portion of an educated com
munity. although undoubtedly representing
a large part Of the national sentiment
hear. hearl
IN ali these cases Mr. Bright went far
outside of the necessity of his calling. |
Whatever touched him as man of the
great AnglO-SaNOn race: whatever touched |
MIN as a subject obtained his unaSled, his |
sincere. earnest and enthusiastic aid hear, |
hearl His powerful advocacy made dis |
tinct advance in the estimation Of the |
world, and a distinct progress toward a .
triumphant success. Thus it has come |
,JoU, that he is
ENTITLED TO A HIGHER EULOGY
than is due to the success of mere success.
Indeed he was a conspicuous example; in
intellect he might claim the most diStin-
cuished place But his character lies
deeper than anything that can be described
o.. that can be seen upon the surface. The
supreme eGlogy that is his due is that he
elevated political life to the highest point,
to d loftier standard than 1t had ever
reached. He has bequeated to his country
a character that cannot only be made a
subject for
ADMIRATION AND GRATITUDE,
but. and do not eXaggerate, when l say it,
that can become OF reyerential cOntempla-
plation. In encOmiums that come from
every quarter, there IS not note OF dlsso-
nance. | do not know Of any statesman of
my time who has had the happiness Of re
ceiving. on removal from this passing
world. the honor Of an approval so enthu-
siastic. so universal and so unbrOken.
tHear hearD Yet none could better dis
uGESt with the tributes Of the moment, be-
cause the triumphs of his life were the tri-
umnhs recorded in the advance of his
country and of his people.
HIS NAME IS WRITTEN
in the annals of time and on the hearts of
the great and ever spreading race to which
he belongs, whose wide enthusiasm he re !
ioiced to see and whose power and promin-
ence he believed to be full Of promise and !
glory for the best interests of mankind.
Mr. Gladstone resumed his seat amid
much subdued cheering. I
: Justin Mccarthy, who in the absence of t
PNlueu spoke for the Irish party, associ-
afed their sentiments with those expressed ,
in the noble speech of Gladstone. He said
the memory of the Irish people endured,
and It carried them back to the time when
MIR, Bright championed their cause. He
therefore claimed the right of Ireland to
LAY An INMORTELLE
upon the great Englishman's grave.
tChocrs).
A Rumpus on the Rio Grande.