Show HOOTING AT THE PREMIER etnere to ir one public man in this life whose situation Is in more peculiar than that of any other mai and he is truly a great one william E gladstone it la Is no longer questionable it Is a ar a r dainty tai laty that be la Is more sincerely beloved and profoundly hated more un Telen edly respected and thoroughly despise i more popular and unpopular more and lose less among amon a wider circh of people than any other man of our times living or deaf how it to ie that at a time of life when most woo quietude of privacy it not seclusion mr gladstone is if possible more of a stormy petrel than at any time io in hla his younger days how bow it is that he can command a majority in support of an pular measure from a populace which bestons bestows as a rule more of abuse than of praise upon him and how bow it to is that he can so bring together and make coherent io in support of his bia policy struggling and incongruous elements when those who oppose him and his government are really abler and stronger than his hia wn own following are problems which are not aay easy V to solve we can only wonder and let it rest with that it Js is proper to say however that those englishmen who take advantage of the venerable premi premiers erys appearance in public 1 laces to hiss biss and hoot hont and howl at him are not giving themselves nor their country a very good reputation abroad we are su supposed apos to be somewhat untrammeled over here and yet no crowd could be found in this country so lost to every point of decency and self respect as to treat the president of the united states that way or even his hie secretary of state lot let the populace look upon the man as they may his bis position in life anil and in the nation hla his gray hairs and wrinkled brow and the eminent services eer vices rendered his hia country in the days daya of the mob mobs Is fathers fathera and grand fathers as well as during their own time should exempt him from such indecent outbreaks if they canoot cannot or do not appreciate him they ought to remember that the better classes of their own people and the civilized civili sed world do and let their opposition be confined coo to proper places and methods |