Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-04
THE LATE JOHN Bright
o'e OF the Most Remarkable Charac,.
In English PoIitIe.

IN English Politics.
John Bright was born at Greenland
near Rochdale, November 16 1s,1
After receiving a substantial English
education he entered his fathers bnsi.
ness, becoming member OF the fi,r
OF John Bright q Brothers. Gotten amin
ners and manufacturers. He was in ioaa
one OF the first members OF the Anti
Corn Law League, and in 1s43 was re.
turned to Parliament for the CITY NJ
Durham, for which he continued tn ait
until 1917 when he was returned for
Manchester. He made numerous
speeches in Parliament, and became n
very active and prominent member.
In 1852 he participated in the welcome
given to Kossuth by the advanced Lib.
erals OF Lancashire, and in the same
year was reelected for Manchester
By his vehement denunciation of the
policy which caused the Russian war
he allenated many OF his former SUD-
porters. He was compelled by severe
illness to withdraw for a time from
! public affairs. He then passed some
months on the continent He was in
| August, 1857, elected to Parliament
from Birmingham, which borough he
has since continued to represent. He
accepted in 1868 the Office of President
OF the Board Of Trade under Mr.. Glad
stone, and in 1873 was appointed Chan
cellor Of the Duehy of Lancaster Mr.
Bright was especially distinguished
as speaker OF remarkable eloauence
and power. He was during the civil
war in this country warm and ayowed
friend of the Union cause. He re.
signed Office in 1882.
Mr.. Bright was never known az a
great administrator, as a great legisa-
tor, or as a great master of parlia.
mentary detail. He was not even con.
sidered a debater of the first order
He was man. however, just as indis
pensable to the legislation which has
been accomplished during his career a.
a minister who conducts bill through
| al lltil4itht. <hS dH OidtDE ne dC
quired an equal renown in the HOUSE
OF Commons and on popular platforms
; Such was the power and fervor of hi
. eloquenc that it has always constituted
force with which responsible states
: men have been compelled to reckon
2 Disraeli once said of Golden that ''h
was the greatest politician that tn
. middle upper class of England hat
produced, and that he was not only a.
ornament to the House of Commons
but an honor to his country 1t ma
be asserted of Mr.. Bright that he SUI
passed all his contemporaries in tn
art of giving simple and weight
expressions to the views an
i aspirations of the English multi
tude. He has been called
Il demagogue As matter of fact n
u man was ever less of a demagogu'
VI Had he been capable of pandering
the popular sentiment of the hour. /
/ would not have resisted the ten-hol
II bill. nor would he have lost his Sc
J for Manchester twenty seven years aG
: by deuouncing the foreign policy
Lord Palmerston in China and in Ru
STA. II would be unjust to san OF hi
e that h. was ever the mere mouthple'
t If public feeling. He acted as Il
< champion of the popular cause Just
lie far as he could identify that cau'
with. and vindicate it by reference t
g what have seemed to him to be Il
I'd eternal laws OF justice and RICH
IN There were radicals before MIR. Jof
" Bright. There will continue to
a. radicals after'him. But as he had Ii
lie tie in common with many of those wi
lie were spoken of as his allies at the b
e. ginning of his public life, so he hi
Slight sympathy with the most powe
w full and representative radicals VINO
it. ne saw around him as the shadows
-, his life began to ade.-Century.