The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-24

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ing Of the birds. the lordly eagle, to life
nd death combat.
Thus spake the Consul Aulus,
he spake : bitter jest:
s'Once the Jays SAINT ) message
Unto the eagles neat
Unto the csrrion kite
! ceme forth v~Aliantly, and faoe
The jays 10 deadly light
+gs Forth lOOk'd In wrath this eagle -~
And carrion kite and iay.
Soon - they saw biz beak and claw;
Fled screaming far away"
II 10 doubtful whether the house OF COM
MONS, even before these frivolous days.
khen reverence 10 At discount and admira-
ion out Of date, ever presented Z more re-
narkable appearance than II did whom Mr..
Gladstone rose TO add ress il. Not . single
Pther visitor could have been orammsd into
he stranRers' sallsrie s-thsrs was nothing
ike suficisnt room for tho members many
pf them novioss) who crowded every inch
# it, vacant space. Its Qangways were
bhoksd with members who seated them
selvss on the steps because no other scat
turned OF that one majestic figure sitting
silent and impassive, but with . world of
suppressed ere cleaning forth from
half-clossd eyes and visible to those
who sat neat him. In his sixty years
Of public life Mr.. Gladstone has bsen
present at many remarkable parliamentary
scenes. At mono more impressive, however,
has he ever Gin French phrass) ''assistsd'
than at this last one. 1t was the climax Of
a long life, throuQho nj which. to : degrees
known only to those who pass day after day
in his company, he has been willing at any
moment to sacrifo himself, his political
and social prospects,, for All idea, If at the
back OF 1t he saw-duty and honor. OF all
the countless lies told at Mr.. GladStone's
expense none is fouler than that which
alleRes-Mr. Lscky is contin ually producing
strophies to that fleet, which Prof. Tyn-
dali echoes with anistt ophes-that he never
thought of taking upholne rule for Ireland
until he saw that without tho Irish nation
alist vote he could never again DO prime
minister.
Who can say to what extent the history
OF the world might have been altered or
improved If instead Of the amiable but in
capable Lord Eliot (who in 1860. as earl Of
st. Germans, accompanied the prince of
Wales to Canada. and the United States,
and was, together, with the last duke OF
Newcastle but one, , esident Buchanan's
guest when his royal highness was staying
1T the White house in Washington Mr..
Gladstone had heen Irish secretary from
1841 to 1886? With his warm heart, his
quick susoeptibilitisa md fe'vid sympathy.
he would have won tho emotional affection
OF a people which ofSksll others is moved to
it's inmost depths abYs soul stirring elo-
quence. The snesrs hurled so often at Mr.
Gladstons's head az IAN old man i'll Il
hurry" as q statesman who "at the end of
an abnormally long life. more than half
OF which has been spent in office, turns
for the first time to Ireland asa stepping
stone toward bringing him back to power."
Is ian EnGlishmah who rarely waits
Ireland and knows nothing Of I, ishmon''
would have been replaced by othe: insinua-
tions of an equally unfounded and un-
generous kind. 1t IL quite certnin that
if brought into close contact with Irishmen
and Irish women At an early stage of his
brilliant career. NJ r.. Gladstone, whom
driving whesl of duty urges him forward,
would not have waited until 1856 before he
committed himself to home rule. These
facts must not be forgotten when the fol-
lowing words are read. speaking last
night Of what the Irish y uestion has bsen
have named q much earlier dRte-Mr. Glad
stone said: y .l a.
"Now, the question of Ireland, il, I may
10 far trespass upon your indulgence as to
say one word personal to myAalt-ths ques-
tion of Ireland is to me- almost everything.
lOuoof0.J ! nave oVUtE uOllkttlOuS oI.puU-
Ito life, and shall endeavor to f%ultLLtnem
so long as have the honor of u seat in this
house, out l may say that it is my only. If
not altogether sole, link with public life. It
has been for the last six or seven years my
primary and absorbing interest, and SO it
will continue to the end" Hear. hear.]
When / add that Mr.. G~laustons's knowl-
edge of every book ever written about Ire
lnnd, of every phase of the troubled roliti-
clan and social life Of our distressed sister
isle. far exceeds the combined knowledge
on those subjects Of every other member of
the house of commons. little wonder will be
felt or expressed at the gravity of the
words which fell from his lips.
When parliament meets again, in six
months time. the eliminating point of Mr..
Gladstone's Ca eer Will be reached. In ths
meantime. l have it on the authority of Sir
Andrew Clark, president of the London col.
legs Of physicians, tn at his illustriousp patient
man ss no was when. on the death of Nj.
HodRson. Of Birmingham. (Mr. Gladstone's
medical attsn dant) Sir Andrew was
called in professionally by the then chan
cellor of the e1chequsr. There 10 failure,
but not Of . grave kind. both in Mr.. Glad
stones eyes and sars-a failure of which he
always makes the most In public, never At
to hide IT. but in other respects
he might be a man of fifty. Three
years since he came unexpectedly into
the house of commons whom q debate upon
abstruss point OF Scottish law was going
on. az to which. with the exception Of .
few Scotch msmbers, no one knew any
thing. Appealed to shortly after his ap.
p~esrancs in the house BY some SCOTCH
Mr.. Gladstone rose, and in a
speech Of rather more than half an hours
discussed the whole question before
the house with suol amplitude Of knowl-
edge aud accuracy Of detail that every one
WAS astonished. As Lord H~arting-
ton {the duke Of Dsvonshire, his father,
still livinR) and Mr.. Arthur Balfour
away together the latter remarked:
II wonder when that old mans intellect
eliminate! II has been steadily rising
EVER since first heard him speak. when hv
already an old man. but IL was at its
zenith tonight" Whatever may be fall
Ing in or about the grand old man" his
memory 10 still - comprehensive, a. all
embracing and accurate - ever.
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