Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-29
DAILY HERALD.
WILLIAM 3. GLADSTONE.
Chssuncey M. Depew Talks About
Europe,s Moss Nemsarkabie Man.

Onf4NnEGV L.
Europe's Moss Nemsarkabie Man.
Recurring to the most interesting per-
ecnality ia Europe. Mr. Depew went on
20 sav Mr.. Gladstone at 81 seems to
me, by all odds, the most remarkable
man living, and one ot The most extra
ordinary men who eve lived Tne fire,
vigor, alettness and fcro, with which, in
conversation, he takea up one subject
after another and plunges into 1t as if that
topic wae she one TO which he had de-
voted the study of his hfe, is indeed most
charming, exciting and fascinating.
saw him for hours together at dinner and
at the opera, ana know of no man in
the prime of life who possesses his en-
thusiasrn and freshness. 1t seemed to
me that he would live forever, because
of bis restless industry in the affairs of
today and tomorrow. When man has
psesed 20 | have found that if he is
.siran to reminiscence and the past, his
,;seitlluess is gone, and ii is time to be-
ssin TO make up his obituary. But there
ia not living question that concerns the
human race in general, or Great Britain
id particular, in which Mr.. Gladstone
does not take al Immediate, enthusi
sstic and absorbing interest.
HE always speaks in q complimentary
yav OF the United States, but discussing
,lr Presidential election and the rush
Yr Office. he said that while
we had many things which
AEngland might adopt, he thought
s.ll of them would be valueless if they
,gare accom- rsried by the change of
,holdntc and the DESCRIPTION of the
AM,,instretlon in appointments to place,
Ine american plan, every time the
esysInmeDt passed from one party to
nohher. he thought it was an evil of
acn proportions sthat its continuance
sa'h practical people, ike the people
lne United States, was in
Vsaprehensibie. He said that
nly once in :, mis- whole fifty years
pubic life he ID an effort been made by
incoming ad;Iminisration to do some
u the sam, ,e Kind. They removed
iuan ior p arely political reasons.
iuea khat th,. g business of the British
l IRE wes 20 be demcralized for the
70, .s.G Of the friends OF the successful
psrty cresieS sszsh ~ excitement that,
slthough tlley could not rsstore this man
10 bic plaeD Gt having been hlled), they
abandoned thu Americas system which
they had thought OF adopting, and PEN
einned the former oficebolder for life at
8 salary three times az large as he had
besn receiving.
Another thing that Mr.. Gladstone
4 esiJ Was that il he was given the choice
tEf bali century in which to work, OF all
shat lad preceded back to the dawn OF
history, and all that would succeed from
the present far into the future, he would
Halect precisely the fifty years OF his
actiye life. Why? Because during that
pefiod had been the abolition of slavery,
Ehe removal OF restrictions upon the
Catholics, the repeal OF the corn laws,
the humanizing Of the penal enactments,
the extension OF sutirage--in word, 1t
\ mad been the only fifty years in the
sorld's history devoted to emancipation,
Emancipation, he added, necessarily was
3 be followed by reconstruction, and the
robabilities were that the next fifty
aars would be half century of quack-
ry--[N. Y. Press.
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