Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-05-23
-ir number King William " and

constitute parliament IN the summer o
lS32. Gladstone was therefore 20 year
of age when this momentous enlarge
= ment of the privileges of common Eng
lishmen became the law of the realm
much against his wish.
o The Liberals came into power. BY tn,
aid of his college friend, the subsequent
Duke of Newcastle, Gladstone easily en-
tered parliament, being elected for New,
i, ark, which was swallowed in the dukes
' estates. The plain constituency tainted
young Gladstone with being a parasite
OF the duke, a young cub of less than %
years of age, and the son of a man on
whose sugar plantations slaves were driv-
> en- to toll.
AT the time Gladstone was opposed to
negro emancipation. He denounced what
he called 1.-THE uninquiring and undis-
terminating desire for change" As to
slavery he said, Il rest upon the fact that
Scripture is the paramount authority on
such n point" He proposed the Christian
instruction of slaves instead Of freedom.
10 these views the crowds would not lis.
ten, but he was elected by a majority of
about one-eighth.
His first speech was against West India
ana Guiana emancipation. He was COM
PEELED to speak because the management
Of slaves on his fathers estate was di.
rectly attacked as inhuman. Compelled
to meet the same charges again, he asked,
Are not Englishmen to retain a right to
their WI honestly and legally acquired
property"
He could not stay the emancipation
bill, which granted compensation to
owners and came into effect in 1870.
Though he often spoke, most of his early
addresses were against liberal legislation
IN the colonies. in the suffrage and in the
church.
Like Disraeli, his subsequent brilliant
competitor, he was a precocious Tory
and the pet of the old leaders of that
party.
Lord Melbourne was almost violently
dismissed by King William Nv, and Sir
Robert Peel, at the time a Tory, was or
dered to form a ministry, whereupon he
offered young Gladstone the place of
Junior lord of the treasury. Newark re-
elected him, and at &c he became under
secretary Of the colonies. The house of
commons soon upset this ministry. and
when Gladstone had made a speech de-
Tending the Irish church establishment
he and his colleagues were defeated in
1885.
Gladstone concluded to hold his tongue
and watch events after he went out of
the ministry, and old King William, the
last son of George III, died in 1887, let
[lng young Victoria succeed to the throne.
Gladstone now stood for two places. {
Newark and Manchester, and the latter {
defeated him, but the former returned s
him. t
He again opposed the Melbourne min
stry, especially upon fastening eman- /
'ipation, saying, I'VE accepted a price i
n compensation for the loss" and added.
Oh, sir, with what depth of desire have e
lonsed for this day, sore and wearied c
nd l1rltated with grossly exaggerated l
Representations and utter calumnies. q
nd without the means of reply-howd do n
rejoice to meet them in free discus. Fl
Joni" The earnestness of this sneecl,
to have brought the young man a
ITO notice. ST
He had at the time a mild and pleasant Ii
ountenance, an intellectual expression. II
ark, prominent eyebrows, clear flashing Of
res, a full head of jet black hair and
nall and regular features. He nut his d.
ands behind his back when rising to la
'eak and shifted them to the front and 81
put them in his breast. Z
1t was noticed that he inherited the
abilities of his family when in a.
9 cabinet. About 1910 he opposed the TO
inciple of state education on an unde. tn
basis.
A general election now brought Sir tic
'bert Peel to the head of affairs. and
made Gladstone master of the mint lis
d vice president of the board of trade. en-,
About this time he married Catherine sta
ynne, daughter of Sir Stephen Glynne OF
Hawarden castle, in Flintshire. By the
: he had eight children, who went into pie
-itics, the ministry or commerce. Gel
\ thread of the schoolmaster rum tut
'ough this family. One of Gladstonc's II
entered the Roman Catholic En
lrch, and another married Lord Little the
I. stoI
he active mind OF Gladstone now tina
nched a book on the state in it's rela- wit
IS with the church. Macaulay wrote fore
WI as betraying very much study pha
mental toll. HE is the rising hone q
those stern and u~nbending Tories" frol
Macauley, who follow reluctantly rlol
~mutlnously leader whose temper pop
opinion they abhor." Others called Eng
ntion to the dry light Gladstone shed occi
lis subject and the excess of his pas and
8 and prcjudices. He has n gift" or t
The Edinburgh Review, most dan pole
to a Spectator, a vast command Lore
kline of language grave and majestic, aske
OF vague and uncertain import" On
lusing Il moment to contemplate n eo1
toirT abreast VI the great Wing VIC tries
of Harrison in America in 1910. we Scott
a shlfty Scotchman's son reared of p
| the associations of the African and all ~
'rlcan slave trades, as DESTROYS as motifs,
Scott to improve his aristo- took
C surroundings. The plain brick sever
e in Liverpool, with its door in the the ~
lie, a copy of thousands of such as m
Nv" oAoiiangeo for the battle epani
. aio .oMeis oi l1a"araen castle, Sicilit
rs vs. oa'.iel'eu courtyard and Rome
, "iol1i1 trees Ills intimate zini a
y 20 . q lNooloi1aa, the son OF duke, tered
Nv t,.5eo ciasses look with ia who v
led of his armor and dead to tho wos ,
D,"a pIl'lleses; the pc
.- a. '"usnI 'ne man. was e.
began a fulminator and t~heologian G1a,
~. ~ pc'oLnias al lmpresslble respol
'nu pulli oi inc aay. the Ea
ring this same reform agitation in Ma,
Gladstone opposed old Sir Walter inc I'll
when hooted by his neighbors in n no1;t