The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-17

supporting that dying old man the
"Unspeakable Turk
Although | am extremely cynical,
yet / have not, like Nero, fiddled While
Rome burned Yet ] have sorroWed
while England mourned. And mourn
which trampled upon the rights of the
poor, and drove from its shores those
who like Thomas Paine, had the cour-
age of their convictions.
AS an old English politician, l have
not forgotten how the Tory admins
tration under Beaconsfield befooled the
people with their doctrines of protec-
ton. 1t was the policy of that rene
gade Jew. Disraeh to heap taxes-ilnd
taxes unbearable upon the shoulders
of the poor, while Gladstone always at
tempted to ease them of those burdens
Besides being acquainted with Bea-
consfield, personally, l have read his
| life as well as his character.
Look at his ambitious youthful days
when he was Radical-mark his
scorn and contempt because they
laughed at his first parliamentary
speech. Note his secession from that
party and his object in asSociating
himself to the so-called stupid party
! the Tories. Even Salisbury--the arts
tocrat jeered at him
Disraeli never forgot it, and the day
soon came when Disraeli returned the
compliment, when he dubbed Lord
Saiisbury-as 1.-The man of Jibes and
sneers.'
No doubt Beaconsfield was a great
statesman, but he was lacking in po
litical morality. He had never stud
led the ethics of politics, else he would
have never left the Radical party.
Personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT was the OBJ
ject of his life
Look at that tomfoolery piece of bus
mess when he made the queen an emf
press and she in return made him
lord. Gladstone had too great a name
and was a nobler lord, when re refused
such senseless distinction.
Beaconst1eld toadied to royalty and
the aristocracy, while Gladstone was
proud OF his democracy.
l know that it is uncourteous to
speak evil of the dead, but, alasl how
much more so it is, to speak i'll of the
living and especially when the living
} do not deserve it.
[ should not have entered into any
discussion on this subject, had it not
been for the wicked remarks of the
Tribune, when it said that Gladstone
had gore to his grave 'unmourned.'
No nobler soul than Gladstone. ever
2 sat as premier of England. Let me
= give you, sir, a little more of my exper-
5 fence of those two statesmen AS |
shall hide my identity under nom de
PAdAAAOs may bHSIGlOle ne eACuSGu III
] occasionally using the pronoun
' Thirty years ago 1 was an officer in
: Her Majesty's civil service. That ser
= vice was about as rotten and corrupt as
q it well could be, i. E., the custom de-
rartment Of it. Merchants and ship
owners, as well as the officers them
: selves, were sick with its loathsome
I stencil.
- Gladstone appointed a royal commits.
, sion to inquire into its grievances and
= reform its abuses.
;; Your humble servant gave evidence
L before that commission as the repres.
entative of at least 10000 men. But my
l. evidence was principally to facilitate
d the shipping business. In 1875 Beacons
! field came into power, and through nj.
administration all those reforms tina
Z; would have benefited that service, ant
u particularly trade and commerce wer'
= thrown to the winds, and that servic,
was left no better than what they
t, found it.
y 1 good required to be done-either polit
IL ically or socially-Beaconsfiel was no
: the man to do it.
d In scores of papers and journals. il
/ lectures and debates, both in the mort.
:? and south of Finland, have denounce
rim when representing the interests o
n TIE working classes. Nevertheless
n say, may his soul rest in peace, for h
l. can do no further harm. Let us Loo
n at England today, and I think I ca
n see clouds in the political horizo
d which betoken! the coming of might
st hurricane that shall revolutionize tina
$ country. It's aristocracy and monarch
are doomed to decay, and democracy
like an eagle in it's fight, shall swee
all before it. When that day comes
as undoubtedly it will, then will tn
10 Union Jacket intertwine with the star
ard stripes, and there will be a confed
Grafton of English-speaking people an
republics who will be the people of tn
" world. 1'DEMOCRITUS.