Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-05-23

'Oi' |Aoa5tolIC, OOIu JuSC De-
lore the stamp act, and the son of a grain
merchant at Leith, near Edinburgh, es-
tablished himself and made voyages to
America, and, like the junior Scotch
merchants of that day, studied the Amer
lean trade and acted upon his personal
observation as to what he should shin TO
England. The West Indies and Russia
were soon added to the nations with
which he dealt.
About ISIS there was a notable poll
tician in Liverpool of the name of George
Canning, a Tory, who filled an active
ministerial part in the second war against
the United States. The merchant Glad
stone changed his politics from admira-
ton OF Canning about the time his son
William Ewart Gladstone was 3 wears
OLA. Though hostile to Madison, Canning
betrlended the South American repub-
lies and Greece and a%ntagonized the
Duke OF W%ellington's prejudice against
Russia as the future rival of England in
eastern affairs. So Mr.. Gladstone inher-
tied from his father and Canning a senti-
mentality concerning oppressed peoples.
He was enough of a Liverpool man.
however, to share during the first part
of our civil war the manifest prejudice
OF Liverpool against the American ship
ping trade and fastened to say that
Jefferson Davis had made a nation"
Their political affiliations caused John
Gladstone to be made a baronet by Sir
Robert Peel in his eighty-second year. He
something of an author of books and
pamphlets on trade subjects. The word
Gladstone is believed to mean hauk rock.
Having been somewhat trained by a
clergyman. who reported him dull at
the future prime minister was
ent to Elton school in 1891 and again
ook a private tutor and then went to
university. About 500 boys were
i Elton with Gladstone, and not much
ttention was paid to their studies be-
'ond Greek and Latin. Gladstone wrote
ATTN verses with facility and contrib
ted to the Elton magazine, and he estab-
shed a serial while in the school, assist I
d by Halleln, who became the subject {
t Tennyson's "In Memoriam." Among s
is early pieces often quoted is this: s
''H' hh'' Inv " anu lIlt lax T.
Warm let the glow of freedom wax: &
sun mid the shuttle and the steam |
bright let the flame of freedom CLEAN.
In II OF his papers on e%loquence he E
Nd tina the orator could have anything. :
, Il minister, state secretary or premier g.
the country. Much of Gladstone's q
rlting in this school magazine bears q A
to his speeches in old age. S
lie had the best teachers, of them ~
subsequent bishop of CalcuttE, but his h.
'lleSe life was more noted for his liter >,
y and political discussions than for ac- h.
rate study. He embraced the views Of NJ
Q high church Tories, who were around ~
III in college, and hated political reform. n,
II did not learn when at Oxford" he f.
Us, Ito set a due value on the imper- q,
liable and inestimable principles of hui -
an liberty. The temper in those aca- dl
mic circles was to regard liberty with
around him at college were men ~,
by their social opportunities to W.
eminent, such as the Duke of Newcas-
Z, the archbishop of Canterbury, Car wv,
lal Manning, Lyall, the gcologist, and G.
We tLC oI.tCSIldH. 0luuStUnG ODDOSeQ re-,
!, remova of Jewish and Catholic disa- a.
itic,. "
After graduating with honor he went ~,
Italy in 1881 and was there when the r.
orm agitation was at its height in ~
gland. By threatening the house of -,
with a preposterous enlargement a,'
upon Their rising champion, who has We
ecundity of thought and luxurious III.
$ of language they cannot initiate and '
st fain admire. a.
is all the more interesting from this II'
DIAL outset to note the changes which 1o
e come over Gladstone's views and VII
racter. The pictures of Cole are sug- ailf
ed to us, of the knight riding forth ~
II his castle in the morning armed tho
II head to foot and coming back at WY.
to the same drawbridge rigid in ~
IN. So Gladstone must needs leave y y ol
high class surroundings into which ~ ~
made his way to. tilt his lance at Co.,.
y appearance of modern reform, but ~
ne evening Of his days he returns dis t,