The evening times., 1898-05-21
TIE GRAND oID NAN.


pictures designed for the wallis Of the
nursery and the children went formally
to work to thrash out the problem OF
where they should be -hung-the butler
standing by meanwhile With hammer.
nails and cord ID execute the decision
when 1t was reached. william r. Cad
stone-it lays tax on the mind to think
OF him as a-little fair-faced lad In knee
breeches and with long curling hair
had very clear views ~ to where the
pictures should be placed and maintained
them at extreme length in numerous
speeches. The others were against him
and finally voted him down. directing
the butler TO nahg1th pictures ~ the
majority wished. Returning q little later.
they found this done! but they found also
that other nails Aad been driven In the
wall at the places favored by Master
William. They, heckled the butler ON
this, and he made reply: Driving nails
is not my work and ! just made the one
Job of It You're bound In time to Co. e
around to Meder lWullie's ooeeni0n or
you'll never know peace OF mind again.
Writing Of Gladstone in 1892. w. T.
Stead said: "Mr. Gladstone Is one of the
most unwearyfng Of workers. Whether
at work or at pfay he Is always on the
go. The>con OF that tremendous energy
never seems to- run down. He IL always
doing something or other. and even when
he is talking he IS acting. using every
muscle Of his body to express and en-
phasfze his ideas. He IL singuIarly free
from one great defect. Most men who
possess the keenness OF intellect and the
activity of mind which distinguish him
would have SO many irons in the fire
that they would be In perpetual confu-
sion.
THE instinct OF order IL easily crushed
beneath the enormous multiplicity OF ever
increasing interests. To the man who has
only one or two things to think about
there Is no difficulty In being orderly and
methodical. hut when q person is thinking
about everything. and hardly an hour
passes that does not supply fresh food
for reflection. or utter. a clamorous de-
mand for activity then, indeed, the In
stinct OF order needs to be very strongly
developed II everything does not fall into
mextricable- confusion. With Mr.. Glad
stone the principle Of order is sufficiently
strong to hold its own against the thrush
OF all the teeming ideas and unending du-
ties which crowd upon him from every
quarter. No person Is more neat and
methodical. and throughout the whole of
his ministerial career he has always left
his papers and his department in apple
pie order. II was the same thing In his
private affairs. He undertook the man
agement of the Glynne estate. which had
| fallen into considerable confusion-his
| father-in-law not having been in any
sense a man of businesS-and soon reduc-
| ed that chaos to order. As chancellor of
| the exchequer. and in every department
Of state in which he has had anything TO
| do. he has left behind him a tradition for
! osder. simplicity and regularity"
Mr.. Gladstone said In 1891: "wu-n
first read in detail the Life
Of Washington. / was profoundly i'm
pressed with the moral elevation and
greatness Of his character. and I found
myself at loss to name among the
statesmen of any age or country many.
or possibly any, who could be his rival.
In saying this / mean no disparagemert
to the class OF political o. the men OF
my own craft and cloth: whom. in my
own land. and my own experience
have found no less worthy than other
men of love and of admiration. i could
name among them those who seem TO
me to come near even to him. But !
will shut out the last half century from
| the comparison. l will then say that IT,
| among ali the pedestals supplied by his
tory or public characters of extraordi-
| nary nobility and purity. / saw one
higher than all the rest. and il l were
required at a moments notice to name
the fittest occupant for it. Z think my
choice,s. at any time during the 'ast
forty-five years. would have lighted, and
1t would now light, upon Washington"
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Mr.. Gladstone's maiden speech in the
Commons was)i delivered May Il, 1893,
being defense Of bis father. to whose
Demerara estate Lord Howick had re-
ferred for the purpose of showing that
a great destrustion,ro rof human life took
place in the West indies owing to the
way In which the slaves were worked.
The young members modest demeanor.
earnest manner and fiuency of speech
made favorable impression on the
House. which he addressed several times
during the sessions of 1873 and 1894, and
when in December, 1884 Peel took Office.
he made Mr.. Gladstone a Junior lord of
the treasury. promoting him in February.
1888, to the more Important office of un-
der secretary for the colonies. where he
introduced bill for the better regulation
OF the carriage of passengers in merchant
vessels. which contained many excellent
and humane provisions and was most
favorably received.
When. February, 1852 the first Derby
ministry was formed. Mr. Gladstone d.
cfned a portfolio. and in December
when Mr.. Disraeli brought forward his
budget proposing the reduction of malt
duty, and increase of the duty on in
habited houses, and became involved
in combat a-outrance with Sir Charles
Wood. Mr.. Lowe and a dozen other mem
bers of all shades of political belief. Mr..
Gladstone overthrow it ..Then heran
says Mr.. Mccarthy. that long Pariia
mentary duel. which only knew a truce
when. at the close of the season of 1876.
Mr.. Disraeli crossed the threshold of
the House of Commons for the last
time. thenceforward to take his place
among the peers as Lord Beaconsfield.
During all the intervening four and
twenty years these two men were rivals
In power and Parliamentary debate, as
ever Pitt and Fox had been Their op-
position, like that of Pitt and Fox. was
one of temperament and character, as
well as of genius position and political
opinion. The rivalry of the first heated
and eventful night was a splendid dis
play. Those who had thought It inn
possible that any impression could be
made upon the House after the speech
Of Mr.. Disraeli had to acknowledge that
a yet greater impression was produced
by the unprepared reply of Mr.. Glad
stone The Aberdeen ministry came in.
and there was but one possible chancel-
lor Of the exchequer-Mr Gladstone
That speech" says a historian, put
him in the very foremost rank of Eng
lish orators. Then. perhaps. he first
showed to the full the one great quality
in which as Parliamentary orator he
has never had a rival In our time, the
readiness which seemed to REQUIRE no