The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-03-05
PROVO CITY. MARCH 5. 1894
GLADsTONE's RESIGN ALTON.

The world would have been in faT
better condition than it is today had
Gladstone resigned long since, or,had
he never accepted the second term of
the premiership. We dislike to write
a sentiment like this about a man who
has done SO many noble things in his
long life. Yet truth is truth and it
must be spoken of VIM. E. Gladstone,
exalted and all as he is, as of other
men. He is called" the grand old man,
but in what does his grandeur or his
greatness consist? He certainly has
filed a grand station, but can any en-
ightened man point to one single evil
dence of his success as a law-giver, by
which the people have had their condi-
tion bettered? In 'S2 he was on the
other side Of the Irish controversy, but
he failed to squelch the Irish. Within
the last few years he has been for them
and still home rule in Ireland is but q
bright, unreal phantasm of the imagin-
alton. When Rothschild conceived
the monstrous theory of the single or
gold standard he found Mr.. Gladstone,
whom the people regarded as their one
friend in the British parliament his
willing coadjutor, Notwithstanding he
knew as well as Rothschild did, that,
bimetalism could not be destroyed
without reducing the people, his wor-
shippers to penury and want. not OF
Great Britain alone but of the whole
world. Ask the people of England, of
Germany, of Denmark. Norway,
Sweden, of Austria, Italy, of India
and last but not least of the United
States, how they feel toward the men
whose selfish acts have brought them
poverty and distress. When we say
''people'' we mean the poor, not the
bondholders and the capitalists.
Had this same Gladstone but uttered
the word, single word, the interna
tional monetary conference at Brussels
two years since, would have recon-
mended the double standard. Think
what that act would have done for the
world. Think how many wrecked
fortunes, wrecked hopes and how
much dispsir would have been
saved. We can never hope for
better policies while we go on canon
izing the men of GIadstone's stamp
whose hands have stricken US down
relentIessly at the bidding of the
greatest money power the world has
ever seen. Is this the act of a man
whose sympathies are with the people?
His refu sal of peerage is hypocriti
cal piece Of selfrserving humbug.
Just now, or before his retirement, he
was planning and scheming the de-
struction of the house of lords.
Would such destruction advance the
cause of the people2 Not one whit. 1t
could only result in setting up pluto
cracy transferring the real power of
the government into the hands which
have already grasped with death
clutch, not the money only Of Eng
land. but of the world. Ask the Ar
gentine Republic at the other end of
the world, whose hand it was that
clutched their every hope for the fu-
ture, and they must.tell you it was that
of this same smooth old man acting for
Rothschild. Ask the emperor OF Rus
sia whom be fears more than all other
men or powers, and he will say the
man whose mighty schemes of self-ag-
grsndizement was protected by
the retiring premier of England.
Ask the impoverished millions of India
whose hand it was which reduced them
to hopeless misery in a day. They |
will tell you the government of Eng
land dominated by this same Glad
stone.
No real friend of the people regrets
the retirement of the man whose whole |
career has been a curse to the poor,
and whose velvet covered hand welded |
the bolts which have stricken down |
the people to build higher and higher |
the palaces of the rich. We for one,
are truly glad the days of Glad
stonianism are over.