| Show t I S t UTuVMSTOXES IXVTSTAIL 1 I I I J I The downfall of Gladstone and his S i government is nothing more than was i 1 1 expected indeed it would have been a S S disappointment had the premier been 1 sustained in view of the disastrous campaign cam-paign in Egypt It is true that the government gov-ernment had a majority on the vote of i I II censure in the House ot Commons but S I so small that it might as well have been I t S the other way The vote wasequivalent S S I I I to a declaration that the Commons regard I i I I re-gard government as incompetent it Si Jl was a notice to Mr Gladstone to step t 1 down and out giving place to some one Ii who is nble to recover the prestige that 11 J r I has been lost under his administration and wipe out the disgrace that has S I come upon the British army rind nation through the timidity and went S I of force on the the part of those who f I stood at the head of the government 1 I I As we write Gladstone and his ministers I S Ii are in session undoubtedly discussing I 1 how best to get out of the difficulty andS and-S turn the administration of affairs over to those who can better administer I i them in harmony with the true idea oft of-t t British greatness It will not be surprising i sur-prising If before the expiration of S S twentyfour hours the retirement of the p liberal government is announced Gladstone is one of the great statemcn S S S Of the world and ii Great Britain were S 5 like the United States without a foreign S for-eign polhy further than to let EI > aLaj and be left alone no man in the S r empire could bette r direct affairs tnan f he But England without a vigorous S jl aggressive foreign policy means that i S England is on the retrogradeand that is S something that cannot be endured by S your true Briton S S Whoever succeeds Gladstone will be eli i extraordinarily energetic in Egypt in i U I i an endeavor to recover what of honorS honor-S bas been lost through the halting courseS course-S of the Liberal government The overturn lz over-turn of the ministry will prove a sorry i occurrence for the Mahdi who will now t 5 C t be lironclit la subjection it jrhalpvp Z > i |
