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

weight TO throw.
The line too labors and the words move
slow.
Not so when awift Camilla scours the
plain.
Flies DER the %urbending corn and skins
along the main.
Solomon says. "A word fifty spoken is
like apples of gold in pictures of silver"
What u marvelously expressive language
is ours, No one can read aloud the first
two lines of the above quotation from
Pope without feeling instinctively that he
is Juggling at some terrific task-nor can
you repeat the last two lines without en-
periencing the opposite sensation of light
ness and buoyancy. DR.. GunSaulus In his
splendid lecture upon Gladstone has no
break in his ready flow of eloquence
though there are some rocky protuber-
ances in the life of his hero which obliSe
him to do somewhat as the old English
school master did with hard words: Skip
them boys, skip them-no man in England
can spell them
Good man and true, Mn. Gladstone was
yet a politician rather than a statesman,
and the hustings' story seems quite an in
Dictator to his character.
AT a meeting where he strove for cleo
ASA w l'i tiiiS a III C'A PAoAaN'
forward and demanded. MIR. Gladstone
if YOU are elected will you support such
and such II measure?' II WILL said
Gladstone deliberately. upon which one
party set up d great cheer. Mot came
the next word. and the other party
cheered. tell YOU" concluded the speak
er. and all laughed though there was con-
siderable CONSERVATION.
Even the three volume apotheosis of
John Morley cannot endow him with the
breadth of Robert Peel. nor clothe him
with the international figure of Pitt, nor
glld him with the imperial manner of Bea-
constield. Mr.. Morley speaks of him as
one whose ensign was human freedom
Yet MIR. Gladstone opposed the eman-
cipation of England's slaves in 1882 and
in 1883. after the adjustment of slavery in
Jamaica and the adoption of apprentice
ship, he defended the planters in parlia-
ment without even affecting to look at
the other side.
In 1862 at Newcastle i'm a great speech
he said that Jefferson Davis and his col
leagues have made AN army-are making
Il Maryland what is more than either
have made a nation
or course he soon saw his error and eX-
pressed his regrets, but he did not stant
on the broad ground of human freedom,
giving as his reasons for regret that /;
cabinet officer should not make such {
statement and that. cit was made upor
a false estimate of the facts" In othel
words that the confederate nation wa!
not quite made. Even in his utobiog
raphy i'm 1886 his roundabout way of ex
cusing himself was purely political ans
puts him i'm the category of the East an,
loose.
How much more magnificent was TIN
position of Queen Victoria! When sh
learned that Mr.. Gladstone and his cab
met We're considering the recognition o
the confederacy, she sent for the premie
and asked him point blank whether h
was contemplating such a step. and uuo
Mr.. Gladstone's admitting it. she arose !
her glory and said: "Then, sir, you wi
stop at once for / will never recognize
nation whose cornerstone is slavery
After the premier's ill-timed utteranc
in 1862 it was Immediately understood tina
Charles Francis Adams within 10 days In
timatcd to Lord Russell that he though
he had better pack his runk. But Lor
Russell assured him that strict neutralit
would be observed. II asked said Nj,
Adams, whether I was to understan
that the policy was not TO be changed?
Yes was the reply. In the meantim
Mr.. Gladstone had been summoned I
Windsor and the queen had peremptoril
ended the whole scheme. as above mer
toned. Mr.. Adams wrote in his diary Ok
tober S-'If Gladstone be any exponent 4
his cabinet my term is likely to be yer
short"
To the numerous complaints made