St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-09
Or the Difference Between Jingo-
ism and GladSfnniSm

Or the Dlnerence Between JingO-
ism and GladstoniSm.
To the Editor of the Globe.
When L was younger and more ant to
be taken with the blare of trumpets, l
was much wrought up by sentence
written by Irving Browne, editor of the
Albany Law Journal, in review of
"Endymion," to the effect that there was
''more in one chapter of Fielding's
"A melia' than i'll volumes of such namby
PANTY stuff as the novel then under the
reviewers scalpel. remembered the
gorgeousness of ''Cancred," by the same
pen, and its charms to all young Ameri-
cans imbued with love of story of vast
wealth, and with the commercial
spirit" prominently developed as it is
in most of the descendants of the
Plymouth Rock colony. At that period
l was charmed with the oratory
of William Writ, replete with
gorgeous imagery, fantastic decoration
and studied dramatic effect, and thought
it immeasurably superior to that of MIR.
Webster. | thought the man who had
written "Lothair," ''Tancred" and
''Endymion" far securer of a niche in
the temple than the plain and simple
Mr.. Gladstone. even though he had
taken double first at Oxford; and when
Mr.. DiSraeli was made an earl was de-
lighted, and later found my own judy
ment Endorsed when read that Queen
Victoria looked with coldness upon Mr..
Gladstone. Bret Harte's condensed
nOyer' ''Lothair' was as unappreciated
as was the squib | read which told how
Mr.. Webster avoided words of Greek or
Latin derivation, and preferred those
from the Saxon, as they were the most
1tl1 ypidnIU IlnHnpStnOH
they did not show such pro-
found acquaintance with the classics.
At that time should have been charmed
upon seeing broken composite column
above tomb. 1t would have been so
full of sentiment" The view of an
entire Doric shaft, even if it had repre-
scented a roundabout career full of
honor and years, would have awakened
no answering feeling in my bosom-it
would have lacked the veneering of
cheap sentiment.
The above reflections were brought to
me upon reading the report of the
'duel' in the ''North American Review"
for January between Mr.. Gladstone and
Mr. Blaine, where the latter twists the
following language of his opponent, Il
urge, then, that all protection is morally
bad" modified and defined few lines
lower and in the same paragraph
by sit is the tendencies of
system that 1 speak which operate va
riousiy, upon most men unconsciously,
upon some men not at all; and surely
that system cannot be good which makes
an individual, or set of individuals, live
upon the resources of the community,
and causes him relatively to diminish
that store which duty to his fellow citi-
zens and to their equal rights should
teach him by his contributions to aug
ment," to mean all craftsmanship
which would favor ones nation, as a
nation and entirely by legislation, to be
bad because it is protection" Setting
up this man of straw Mr.. Blaine pro-
ceeds to demolish it by citing Mr.. Glad
stones part i'll substituting British ship
pintf by paying certain steamship line
subsidy to carry the British mali, and
refusing the same contract TO French
line.
How weak and puerile is such an argu-
ment, or rather say quibbling on words.
How plain will be the superiority of
Mr.. Gladstone's logic in all countries,
including our own, except where such
sophistry finds credence. To compare
the subsidy given to a great nations
shipping, where the whole nation profit