The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-30

Gladstone? 1t was once said OF him
/ that he was inebriated by the exuber.
ance of his own verbosity, and this
| fling remained current throughout his
| life
Mistakes Due to Oratory.
DIR. Gunsaulus told of Gladstone S
determination to fling oratory aside
and this he did, but it is a matter of
recorded fact that upon the two occa-
gions, the speaker said, that when he
made his greatest failures he was be-
guiled by his own soul to flights of
oratory. One of these occasions was
@hen he was Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer; period when he had tlIe
ears of the middle classes of England
and at the time that America was in
the throes of a great civil war
''One word from Gladstone at that
time," said DR.. Gunsau1us, would
have brought either a chorus from the
angels of heaven or a shout from the
fiends in hell. 1t was on this occa-
sion that Gladstone, during the dis
eussion relating to the civil strife in
America, proclaimed that Jefferson
Davis had created new nation
Gladstone never would have been led
into this error of thought and tongue
had it not been for one of those
moods of creative enthusiasm which
often overwhelm the orator"
Dr. Gunsaulus, in following up this
incident to its conclusion, told of
John Bright's instant reply to Glad
stone, in which the latter was told
that even he (Gladstone) who might
tell the condition of the finances of
England to a penny, could not tell nor
predict the fate of a great country,
nation which Bright proclaimed would
come forth from it's bath of blood I'M
der one flag and breathing the air of
one common people.
Greatest Speech He Ever Heard.
4 asked Gladstone myself, years
after" said DIR. Gunsaulus, what was
the greatest speech he had ever heard
and he replied: The greatest speech
that my ears have ever listened to was
that on my judgment day, the occasion
when John Bright awakened me to
my own blunder about your great
America
In the concluding part of his adj
dress, DR.. Gunsaulus traced briefly the
career of Gladstone through various
stages. and gave a close view of his
character in general.
Gladstone was an evolutionist, DR..
Gunsalus declared though he de-
clined to advocate evolution as
general proposition. He believed
that successful government resulted
getting the consent of the
governed, and he held this as an evo-
lutionary theory that was a gift of
the eighteenth century to the nine
teenth. He recognized that if ma
ton were going to fit out humanity
with certain set laws that would last,
it would be necessary to stick to the
theory that the consent of the gov
erned must first be obtained. He
recognized in this, DR.. Gunsaulus said
that if not evolution, then revolution
and he termed the latter alternative
nothing more than delayed evolution.
Dr. Gunsanlus' audience which was
completely captiyated from first TO
last. and which applauded him en-
Enthusiastically and at various times,
grew especially demonstrative when
he drew parallel between Gladstone
and Roosevelt insofar as some of
the most striking characteristics of
both men were concerned. He de-
clared that the great Gladstone of
1856 to whom all England looked
with feeling of utmost safety and
trust, was no greater than the