The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-20
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.
,p,,,su POLITICAL LEADERS PREPAR-
INC 10 TiKE THE STUMP


..,.,s,s Physician will Let Hin Make
o.,v One Speech Belief that the Powers
oil, Not Seriously Scare the Teune En-
,.ror or China Does HsnGinE Reduce
,..Nvwse- or Marders IA Theory that
wod.r.te Drinking 10 Rest for All-Aus-
,.,. Offers 800. coo for Common. bat
,.,,t Get Him-New Bicycle Records
y.eoue. Ends Hts FIFTY Days' Fast.
n..,,sh. 1891. " rax sus y,1nnns and fSotbhtss
AaoctdtoL
IoypoS. Sent 19.-Politicians are beginning
4. ,s,urn from thefr holidays on the Continent
In order 10 prepare for the oratorical campaign
.hoh in some parts OF tho country will com.
-soes next week. 1t is already evident that
haze will b between now and Christmas
more speechmaknR than In any Parliament
,.yy recess since that preceding the famous
ss,.ral election In 1880. In which Gladstone
,s6ted tn, Tories and returned to Westmin.
.tsr At tho head OF q triumphant Liberal ma
,or,,y. This time Gladstone will DO unable to
,sve prominent part In tho struggle. and Sir
And,cv Clarke. his medical adviser and friend.
hss consented only with tho greatest rsluct-
,ncs TO The Grand Old Mans attendance at the
annual meeting OF the National Liberal FEEDER.
,,ion which will open at Newcastle on Sept
N Mr.. Gladstone. however. will not arrive at
ysycastle until Friday. Oct 2. and he has
rfomised to limit his speech that evening to
oero! OF one hour.
IT. must 10 recorded here that politicians
win sporting proclivities are already laying
ODDS that thsHSiand Old Mans speech will last
more than the allotted hour. and some have
sufieient faith IN his irrepressible enthusiasm
and physica vis6r to bet that no will make his
usual number Of railroad station spseches
On tie way to and from Newcastle. Unsx-
psctsd ENCOURAGEMENT has been given to these
irrsvsrent Spectators by tho announcement
ttstNrs. Gladstone will not accompany her
husband II ON Scotland to Newcastle.as she has
promised to preside in tho latter place on tho
Thursday preceding at the. meeting OF tho
woman's Liberal Federation. Among other
Liberal leaders who are TO spsak at Newcastle
ars John Morley and Sir william Harcourt
both OF whom have verY full programme for
tho recess.
II 10 said. by the way. that Mr.. Gladstone has
tsen closely following tho reports in the
Drtish and American newspapers respecting
tho effects on trade OF tho Mckinley tariff. II
this statement be- we'll founded the result Of
Mr. Gladstone's observations will probably DO
embodied in the speech he Is to deliver in the
Town Hall OF Newcastle in acknowledgment
Of the conierment upon him OF tho freedom Of
that city.
The Theosophist controversy which Nine.
Annie Besants conve, sion and her letters
froul the Mahatmas Of Thibet have brought
prominently before tho British public has
been augmented this week by contribu.
ti,n from Mr.. Gladstone. A Mr.. Booth.
who founded . workingMan's debating
club In which religious discussions are
prohibited. wrote to Mr.. Gladstone to
ask whether he considered Theosophy to come
under the head OF religion. and. II not. II there
va soytRtne IN It worth . woskingmshs
study. TO this Gladstone replies:
10 ny answer to your tnteresting lsttsr I
nsst b very succinct. think am also Inn
'yafdai - do not adopt the laaeusgs Of de-
'temined disbelief 10 all Manifestations rsL
'9suppossd from the other world. which 10 tha
lsbt Of many. Thsy sivs me little sstisfso-
ton. but that does not warrant meeting thsm
with blsok negative. cannot conceive how
either sptrIttsm tbettsr 90 called than spirit
ualism) or Theosophy can with consistency DO
discussed In societies OF workinRmen or In any
other SOC eties which exclude oil subjects cal
eula.ed to lead to religious discussion. Spirit
ism and Theosobhy. ~ understand the mat
ter deal with the facts and phenonena OF the
otherworlds os much a. the Christian cTeeds.
EvsI Christian In their clubs. were Theosophy
discussed, would properly claim to apply to It.
10 far as requisite. tho laws Of Christian be-
lsL Its Introduction must. think. b the
precursor both OF strife and OF conflict
Whether or not this pronunctsmento is the
result Of an artful trap on the part OF the The
osophists 10 draw Gladstone into tho discus
"'n doesnot yet appear.