Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-11-18

the language used by Mr.. Gladstone In
the Newcastle speech, he framed a reply
disclaiming responsibility for the infer
ences people chose to draw from his Ian
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.
have made a nation"
The disclaimer was. as Mr.. Morley
frankly says. "couched In such phrases
as were hard for plain people to under
stand" 1t was issued by his secretary III
the following words:
MIR. Gladstone desires me to remark
that to form opinions on matters of pol
icy. to announce them TO the world. or
to take or to he Il 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-
cording to the particular circumstances
of lac case"
This is about as lucid as the temper
ance lecturers remark that rather than
fill a ~drunkard's grave would be a feath-
er in the pinion of the angel that flies
continuously and only continuously around
the throne of God"
There seems to have been some ground
for Mr.. Disraeli's suggestion that the
premier was "inebriated by the exuber-
ance of his own verbosity.' But all this
only evidenced thai the man whose
"ensign was human freedom" had not
the worldwide grasp of human sympathy
possessed by Chatham, or Wilberforce, or
that quiet pcace-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
tainly had much to contend with while
the Manchester operatives were demand
ing cotton, but he surely cannot be &C
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 Tor that human
freedom-the United States.
MIR. Morley says that "some people
thought Gladstone Johnsonian In his Ian
guage.' Not at all-Johnson was never
involved. He used sonorous language. but
III one understood the meaning of the
words the thought was always clear.
Commercially Mr.. Gladstone was at
heart a protectionist. though his position
required him to uphold free trade. The
thread of his argument was free trade,
but his parentheses were protective.
Perhaps the most unfortunate circum-
stance of the Gladstone administration
was the apparent sacrifice of that royal
man, Chinese Gordon. The question OF
sending a relief expedition to Gordon at
Khartoum was debated month after
month in London. Mr.. Gladstone does not
lseem so cllargeable perhaps with anything
more than apathy-whether there was or
was not jealousy on the part of army
officers who so long discussed the route
> is not so clear. but at all events the ex-
petition and the route We're not decided
{ upon until July 90. Wellesley reached
r Cairo September 9, the second cataract
. October 5, and Khartoum in the end Of
a January. 1886. only to find Gordon and his
n few faithful adherents sacrificed and the
Il IIl Mahdi in possession of the city. Cor
a don had been sent there by the British
government to protect lIllartoum. and
e though it had been suggested afterwards
t that he should retreat, he declined, say
1 ing that 10000 people pinned their faith
: to him and ii he left them they would be
1 exposed to increased enmity on account OF
4 the adherence to him.
Had Andrew Jackson. or Sherman, OF
Lord Roberts, been sent with a deter
d mined government back of them, they
y would have gone by the quickest route
e sped over the desert like the tabled flight
o of Camilla. stood by and pulled through
y the most heroic character Britain ha.
+ seen for a century, Chinese" Gordon, &
man whose journey to khartoum will
only two attendants and whose won
Y drous influence over the sons of the des
crt mace one Of the most thrilling page.
in all history. T.. IL. Lewis.