The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-19

the language used by Mr.. Gladstone in
the Newcastle speech, he framed a reply
oi~sclaiming responsibility for the infer
ences people chose to draw from his LAM
guage. But 1t was about the most clear,
emphatic, unmistakable language that he
ever employed. THAT Jefferson Davis
and his colleagues have made an army.
are making a navy, and what is more,
nave made a nation"
The disclaimer was. as Mr.. Morley
frankly says, "couched In such phrases
as We're hard for plain people to under
stand 1t was issued by his secretary In
the Following words:
MI. Gladstone desires me to remark
that to form opinions on matters of poll
Icy, to announce them to the world. or
70 lake or to be q party to taking any OF
the steps necessary to giving them effect
are matters which, though connected to-
gether, are In themselves separated by
intervals of time longer or shorter ac-
cordlng to the particular circumstances
or tne case
This is about as lucid as the temper
ance lecturers remark that rather than
I'LL a d~runkard's grave I would be a feath-
er In the pinion of the angel that flies
continuously and only continuously around
the throne of Cod"
There seems to have been some ground
Tor MIR. Disraeli's suggestion that the
premier was "inebriated by the exuber-
ance of his own verbosity." But all this
only evidenced that the man whose
ensign was human freedom" had not
the worldwide grasp of human sympathy
possessed by Chatham, or Wilberforce, or
that quiet peace-loving Quaker, John
Bright, who, forced into the fight for hui
man liberty, so strove and so fought as to
command more universal respect than any
Briton In or out Of office. Gladstone GER
/ fAinTv had JaIIc1 RI cprfnnd with yyhi1o
the Manchester operatives were demand
Ing cotton, but he surely annot be ac-
cused of harboring any real interest in
human freedom in the large, considering
his attitude in 1862 toward the only nation
on earth sorely battling for that hum an
freedom-the United States.
Mr.. Morley says that some people
thought Gladstone J~ohnsonian in his Ian
guage." Not at all-Johnson was never
involved. He used sonorous language, but
II one understood the meaning of the
words the thought was always clear.
Commercially Mr.. Gladstone was al
heart a protectionist, though his position
required him to uphold free trade. TIL
thread Of his argument was free trade
but his parentheses were protective.
Perhaps the most unfortunate circum
stance Of the Gladstone administrator
was the apparent sacrifice of that roya
man. Chinese" Gordon. The question O
sending a relief expedition to Gordon g.
Khartoum was debated month afte
month In London. Mr.. Gladstone does no
| seem so chargeable perhaps with anything
more than a~pathy-whether there was o
was not jealousy on the part of arm,
: officers who so long discussed the rout
Is not SO clear, but at all events the ex
petition and the route were not decide,
I upon until July 90. Wellesley reache,
r Cairo September 9, the second catarac
October s, and Khartoum in the end @
. January, 1885. only to find Gordon and hi
4 few faithful adherents sacrificed and tn
i Ell Mahdi in possession Of the city. Goa
. don had been sent there by the BIRTHS
government to protect Khartoum, an
9 though it had been suggested afterward
t that he should retreat, he declined, say
d ing that 10000 people pinned their faft
to him and if he left them they would |
exposed to Increased enmity on account
d the adherence to him.
Lord Roberts, been sent with a dete,
d mined government back os them, the
would have gone by the quickest rout
e sped over the desert like the tabled flgl
o of Camilla, stood by and pulled throug
y the most heroic character Britain hs
seen for a century, Chinese Gordon,
man whose journey to Khartoum wit
only two attendants and whose wol
y drous influence over the sons OF the de
ert made one of the most thrilling pag
in all history. e. u. Lewis.