Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-03

tirely safe one to be intruStcd with the
molding for life of the character OF youth y
Justice Falconbridgo was seconded by
Colopcl George Il. DeniSrn, II police nAgiS-
trate of Toronto, who echoed his indiGrn-
ton and requested that his name be struck
from tho list OF graduates of the univer-
sity. When Professor Smith heard of all
this, he wrote to t'lc senate of the u.!ivrr
sity declining the preferred degree, and
peace again rciGns in Toronto.
From all of tbs You might correctly sur
misc that Professor Goodwin Smith is not
popular in Can;Gr. He is not. He has
probably more enemies to the square inch
in tho Dominion than any other person,
official or otherwise, within the united
provinces. He has I.la::y friends, too,
great number of whom love him for tho
enemies he has made.
Popularity is I'm. thing that he has sell
dom tasted, yet lac is respected and llon' rcd
far and wide, even u.,lol.;; his most bitter
opponents. us honesty of principle and
sincerity of purpose have compelled this
tribute, but even il no lacked these the
breadth and depth Of lis intellectual at.
tairr.artI would challcr-o rdmi,ntion
He Is undoubtedly one of the foremost
scholars and strongest writer, of the day
on SUBJECTS Ct political aid current inter
est. H:s views Gr> broad, ard his Opin-
ions liberal, and it is largely due to this
fact t.N.t lie l.c,,.., ~, al. iisy
Professor Smith 8 career ;, IS been 4 r,Ost
active one r. was horn Is years nr, in
Rcndirg, E~rl!nl whore his ilt her was u
physician in moderate circumstances. His
school days were passed at Eton, and from
There ne went to Oxford, wncre he carried
off tho highest scholastic honors. His first
Impulse WIS 70 study law, but the Opi]pr-
tunitics ard attractions Of literary ltc
appealed to lin more strongly, and lie ;:c-
ccrtcd q Fellowship, and tutorship in Uni
versity college That gavo him ample OPP
portunity for literary work. and when The
Saturday Review was established he be-
came ono of it's regular contributors
1t was as n writer OF political essay.
that he bUilt Up his carly reputation as
a deep thinker and Il brld speaker. While
yet u young man he had stirred up the
critics to such al extent that he was sound
ly scored in various reviews of good
standing In 1852, when he had become
widely recognized us II writer of the high
est literary skill, he startled Englishlncn
by advocating In IL series of letters under
the title of "Tho Empire the libcrating of
all tho larger English provinces. 10 the
British mind this was the ranllcst kind of
hercsy. Goodwin Smith was for awhile the
most heartily abused man in the United
Kingdom. Every one seemed to be against
him. The Times hurled at him it's might
lest thundcrbolts, and all the other publ
cations big and little followed suit Never
was n political proposition more unani
mously condemned or moro courageously
defended
In 1864 Mr. Smith paid his first visit to
America and expressed his sympathy with
the northern states, although the majority
of his country1nen were partial to the
southern cause. Four years later he be-
came a resident of tho United States and
accepted an honorary professorship at Cor
nell, but few years later he removed to
Canada, where he at once began to interest