The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-19


Gladstone, NJ. p, =. c., is the fourth
son of the late Sir John Gladstone,
Bart, of Fasque, County Kincardino,
N. b., a well-known merchant of Liv- !
erpool, and was born there Dec. 20, |
1909. He was educated at lIton and |
Christ church, oxford, of which he |
was nominated a student in 1929, and |
graduated, taking a double first class, |
in Michaelmas term 1891. Having |
spent some time i'm continental tour, |
he was returned at the general cleo
tion in December, 1882, in the ConserVa- |
tive interest, for Newark and entered |
Parliament just as the struggle of |
parties was at it's height. on June 20, |
1898, he entered Lincoln's Inn, and |
when he had been a member for. six |
years and three months, petitioned to |
have his name removed from the books |
of the society, on the ground of his |
having given up his intention of being !
called to the bar.
In the house Of commons his mcr-
camille origin. the success of his uni
versity career, his habits of business,
and his high character recommended
him to the notice of Sir Robert Peel,
to a junior lordship of the treasury,
and in February, 1885, under-secretary
for colonial affairs. Mr.. Gladstone re-
tired from Office with his ministerial
leader in April and remained in op-
position until Sir Robert Peers return
to power in September, 1S41. on ac-
cepting office under Sir Robert Peel
in 1S41. as vice president of the board
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Gladstone was sworn a member of
the privy council. In his new position
he had to explain and defend in the
lower house of parliament the COM
mercial policy of the government; and
in the discharge of this duty he had
whatever advantage his mercantile
origin and connection could give him,
The revision of the tariff in 1912 was
almost entirely the result Of his en-
ergy and industry, When this labor
ious work was brought before the
House of Commons, it was found to be
as admirably executed in it's details as
it was complete in it's mastery of gem
eral principles, and It received the
sanction of both houses with scarcely
an alteration In 1S43 Mr.. Gladstone
succeeded the Earl of Ripon as presi-
dent Of the board of trade, but re-
signed that office early in 1S45 In Jan
uary, 1876, Sir Robert Peel announced
his intention of proposing q modifca-
tion of the Corn laws. Mr.. Gladstone,
who had succeeded Lord Stanley Ghe
late Earl of Derby in the post of sec
retary of state for the colonies, ad-
'ered to the leader under whom he had
e. erred upon ministerial life; but, pos
sibly, unwilling to remain under obli-
cations to the late Duke Of Newcastle
who sympathized strongly with the
Opposition party, resigned his seat for
Newark, and remained for some time
out of parliament.
At the general election in August,
1847, he was, with the late Sir Robert
Harry lnglis, elected for the Eniver-
sity of Oxford. In the parliament OF
1S47-52, the questions Of university re-
form and the removal of Jewish disa-
bilities were frequently and earnestly
agitated in the lower house. Though
Mr.. Gladstone's early sympathies no
doubt bound him strongly to the High
Church and Tory party, yet he felt
that on both these points the eXigen-
Cies of the times required that some
concessions should be made. He con-
sequently found himself frequently Op-
posed to his former friends, and event.
ually separated himself from the great
body Of the Conservative party in Feb
ruary, 1851.
At the general election in July follow
ing, Mr.. Gladstone was reelected for
the University of oxford, but not with
out severe contest. On the formation
of what is generally known as the
Coalition" ministry, under the Earl
Of Aberdeen, in December, 1852, Mr..
Gladstone was appointed to the Chan
cellorship of the Exchequer, in which
office, the thorough knowledge of fl
nance which he had acquired, and had
tested by practical experience at the
Board of Trade, proved of the greatest
assistance to the ministry. After the
breaking up of the Aberdeen admins-
tration, or rather, on its reconstruct
tion under Lord Palmerston at the be-
ginning of 1855, Mr.. Gladstone at first
continued to occupy the same post, but
he resigned in the course of a few
weeks, on finding that it was not the
intention of the ministry collectively to
oppose the vote of censure implied in
the resolution of Mr.. Roebuck, in favor
of the appointment of a committee of
inquiry into the state of the British
army before Sebastopol, and the cause
Of its sufferings. For some time Mr..
Gladstone, who held no public office,
gave Lord Palmerston's ministry an in
dependent support.
In the winter of 1859 he accepted,
under Lord Derby's second cabinet, a
special mission to the Ionian Islands,
TO arrange certain difficulties which
had arisen in the administration of that
dependency; and in June, 1859, resumed
office under Lord Palmerston as Chan
cellor of the EXchequer. In this capac-
ity he was mainly instrumental in re-
pealing the paper duty, and in promot-
ing the negotiations conducted by Mr.
Golden, which resulted in the CONNER
cial treaty between this country and
France. Mr. Gladstone, though orig
lnaily very jealous of an Intervention
on the part Of the state i'm the matter
~ university reform, lent the govern =
ment from time to time very valuable
assistance, by supporting the suggcs-
tions of the Oxford University Com
missioners, through his extensive per-
sonal and official influence with the
authorities at oxford. as one of the
representatives Of that university in
parliament.
Besides being eminent as a states
men, Mr. Gladstone has acquired cell
ebrity as an author, His first work.
treatise entitled THE State i'm its
Relations with the Church." published
in 1888 4th edit, enlarged, vols, l84D,