Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-28
JOHN BRIGHT'S DEATH.
The Great English States
man at Rest.
A BRILLIANT PUBLIC RECORD
The Friend of Richard Golden and
for q Time, too, of William
Ewart Gladstone.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
LONDON, March 27.-John Bright dice
at 80 A. NJ.
His end was peaceful and painless
He had lain in a comatose condition
since yesterday. All the family were
present.
In the Commons, Hon. VIM. H. Smith
the Government leader, with much emo
ton referred to the death of Bright. He
said he would postpone his remarks on
Bright until Friday, when Gladstone
would be present. Morley thanked
Smith for his consideration in regard tc
Gladstone. Bright represented the
Central Division of Birmingham in the
House.
The funeral will take place on Satur-
day, the interment to be in the Quakers'
burying ground at Rochdale. The cere-
mony will be as private as possible.
THE Right Honorable John Bright,
was the son of Jacob Bright of Green
b INK, near Rochdale, and was born No
Is, 1911. After receiving liberal COM
mercial education he entered his fathers
business, who was cotton-spinner and
manufacturer, and ultimately be-
came member of the firm
of John Bright & Brothers. He
early showed an aptitude for political
speaking and made himself prominent in
the Reform agitation of 1831-32. In 1889
be became one of the earliest members
of the Corn Law League, which grew out
of an association formed with the object
ofsecuring the repeal of the Corn Laws.
His first attempt to get into the House
feated as candidate for the city of Dur
ham in 1843 by Lord Dungannen, a
Copser oative and Protectionist, but his
Lordship was unseated on petition and
Bright elected. He continued to sit for
Durham until 1S47, when he was re-
turned for Manchester. lie MADE his
maiden speech in the House on August
Z, 1913. lie agitated in Parliament and
out of it for free trade, and in 1S47 se-
cured commission to investigate the
condition Of India. Along with Mr..
Golden, he worked hard for the reduc-
tion of the naval and military establish
ments, and, in fact, took leading part
in all the political movements of the day
which locked towards reform and econ
omy. In 1852 he strongly opposed the
policy of the Russian war, but was dis
abled from carrying out his opposition
by serious attack of illness, which COM
PEELED him to give up public life entirely
for time. In 1857 he was elected MEM
Der for Birmingham, and he
has represented that city ever
since. The principal measures
with which he was identified during the
next eight or nine years were in the di
rection OF reform of the electoral repre-
sentation by wide extension of the suf-
frage, more equal distribution of the
seats with reference to the population
and alterations in the law of entail.
during the civil war in this country
Bright WAS an uncompromising friend of
the North. In October, 1866, he was
banquetted in Dublin and in November,
1868, he was presented with the freedom
of the city of Edinburgh. Shortlysafter,
he accepted an Office in Mr.. Gladstone's
cabinet as President of the Board of
Trade which position he resigned in De-
cember, 1870. In 1873, after having re-
covered from severe attack
OF IlU6bb u6 WAS dppOinUSu
to the chancellorship of the Duchy OF
Lancaster, and held that office until
February, 1874. when the Liberals went
out of office. He resumed it on their re-
turn to power in May, 1880. In July,
1882, he resigned from the Cabinet be-
cause he differed from his colleagues in
regard to the bombardment of Alexan-
dria and the Egyptian policy of the Gov
eminent. From that time he became
more and more estranged from Mr.. Glad
stone, giving his support to the Unionist
party as against the Home Rule move
ment. In November, 1880, he WAS
elected.Lord Rector OF Glasgow Univer-
sity. Since that time he has not taken
any very prominent part in public
life except in the way Of
writing letters occasionally to the papers
or to prominent men on the questions OF
the day. His health has been poor for a
considerable time, and his advancing
years incapacitated him from taking the
active part in political life for which his
gifts and his experience SO well fitted
him. AS a master of terse, forcible
Saxon-English he had no equal in the
century.