The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-15
rHE Man BRADLAUGH
rnilio Castelar's View Of the
Great English Radical.
STATESMAN UPON AoITAroR.
: A1hsist Orators Narrownsss Com.
,6sa WIN Gladstone's Broad Carts
olaaity-A Brave, Kind Soul.

@ea WIN Gladstone's Broad Chris.
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1ssonance tnlouenou, Europe ana e most
lively inse1e'' "ouio nave censered IN MS
/ temise.
Notwltnssandine tnelr apparent indifier-
smce, the Liberals OF England nave expert
mced very great loss N the death OF
1hef goo iriend braoiaugn.
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TN sucn pat'erns o. human excellence
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1e fecsion IN England, which Is exceed
10 0nB IN numbers. by counseling
nn people WITH the greatest honesty
- aor 70 put IN practlce the abom-
&mHX[I zK0e0fleS OIL M8l6nuS with regard n
lon ana onsprlng, he Justly
- Own upon himself the implacable
OF the moral BRITISH public.
errors IN metaphysics and in
ne more tnan counterbalanced by
10y OF iiie. the simplicity OF habits,
saiarty OF manner, the utter self
Won, the respect ior aoversIty and
81 wnicn ne displayed IN the coun-
mas - perhaps more heedfui OF ex-
y ~ conventionaiities and OF ofifcial as
.aons tnan Is any otner In the world.
Dolety oy ms inIantiie canoor, ms SAUL
~ perunacity, ms freedom nom all
1otdSm and his fervent reverence of
uhefty, Bradiaugh succeeded finally in
Imposinr on the British House of Com
,,crs the cre.t;on and adort;on of . Iav
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Z Ion .nicn JUDAISM ana SatnoEcism nad
nug before obtained by exceptional and
extraordinary means.
BE was cursed, prosecuted. put in the
eiIlnrv He became ! marx for thu h.tred
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zs nis irreverent auoaclty ana stopped
s!oeH ears up so as not 10 near MS speeches.
he was stunned by all who valued the
1pinion and esteem of society and was re-
1llsed by even his own relatives.
an;te NJ ali This he fou,bt un;rt.rrrrt-
N. ~ .,;.Lo,,. ~. 1sss. $500 g.. e.. r..
anu uls.ous '.- ieass rpcs1 ioI nve
ing years tnas ne might lake MS seat IN
ne house OF commons In fulhllment OF the
v0te OF his electors, and, though forced
hom his bench and pushed through the
neat door of narliament. down stairs and
10 the straat hv the saroeant-at-arm.a and
~ 'ne s',ees " .no Ssl n.s anu ~
=. es'oos, s"ouen looAou Up ~ ING
1e.ef 40 were STATE prisoners IN the
middle ages, ne yet managed by appeal to
obtain the legal decision that the profess
sion of q belief. however erroneous il NAV
be-and atheism is the most erroneous be-
lief that exists--is not an impeachment to
the endowment and exercise of any right.
/ have lived so long that today scarcely
ever does a celebrated man of liberal and
some affection in my heart and left in my
memory some personal "reminiscences.
This happened with Bradlaugh, who once
CHANGED to stay with me for three or four
days.
During his visit he scattered q rich har-
vest of true political doctrines and offered
: vivid contrast to the contradictory i'm
patience of the Latin races by his glorious
British tenacity.
Whon ho rnlohpofa6 Ennli~h
came to introduce himself to me on his
vav through Madrid to Lisbon in 1874. I
vas at the head of the foreign officeYn the
Spanish republic. Through the deplorable
examination of the executive power which
characterized the republic at that time we
were not in official communication with
any European state, though we maintained
uninterrupted and close relations with the
Whole world and particularly with the
british government, which included such
ilustrious liberals as my friends Glad
stone, Bright and Dixie.
The then representative of the British
eovernment at Madrid was a very eminent
writer, who has rendered great services to
literature and history by his works on the
excavations at Nineveh, which are OF trans
eendent value to universal science. / re-
n to the celebrated Layard, who was very
learned, very progressive, and, like almost
sll the representatives of England, very
fond of our country.
The English Radical orator. the pro-
pagandist of the utmost extremes in Eng
land, passed through our city on his way
70 Lisbon during the height of the Repub-
hcan government which harassed our
xigilant Layard, who feared that Repub-
hc such as we then had would result in
merry and inextinguishable bonfire, to
whose voracious flames the revolutionists
oil Europe might repair and catch
marks whercvitb To ignite the whole con-