Show MR MB BRIGHT AND THE HOME I 1 I 1 RULERS I 1 joun JOHN BRIGHT M P imparts to the anglo celtic controversy a new and peculiar i d dist s if the telegraph wires wire sand and those fv ho manipulate them report him correctly he calls those of the liberal pirty party lia 16 england and ireland who espouse the cause 0 of home rule for tae latter rebels and goes on to use that designation as a prefix to his opponents names with as much mach freedom as though there had been recently lorils now an actual rebellion against the crown in which those gentlemen are engaged or have contributed tri buted aid and sympathy this we take lake it will prove one of the conspicuous instances in which calling names merely because baere is an enlo reed and sell con strutted ted aptness in doing so 80 not because they tit fit is more likely to 10 result in harm for tue tae inventor than for anyone else mr bright is a man of learning and experience in some of the things of tuis life w which aich go to build up re refuja uta lions he be is by common consent a gre great t man inan he was a prominent figure T in public affairs and nad a certain amount of influence at home and abroad before many wao now criticise criticism critic ise his conduct frequently ably and severely were born but that matters not experience and a reputation alone do not round out nor lill fill up a career the fact that so much capital is in possession Is one of the oe best of reasons why present actions and utterances should be gauged more nearly to the standard of wisdom wis doai and this to an impartial observer mr bright seems to nave have lost siant of altogether excessive beal zeal in behalf of ones party or even ot ones country is not always the best indication of loyalty to it any more than the loudmouthed loud mouthed ranting and general tiry ory of the stump and tue the hustings are indicative of sound statesmanship the conditions may be united lalli ted but the chances are greatly the ine other way such procedure is 18 always expected in embryo politicians and is easily overlooked or even applauded irk in them for obvious reasons they lack ripeness and hound soundness ness and it is better that the native qualities be encouraged with the hope that by maii mankind kind the baser parts will wear away and the pure metal alone remain but no such ex be found for the veteran of three score ea and ten nd whose reputation is in the past rather than in the iti future tare there are statesmen on en both sides the all absorbing question in great britain men who honestly and con bously espouse their respective views and have no selfish or sinister purpose whatever to they have devoted much time study stud yand and thought to the solution of a problem which must in the nature of things be solved one oae way or another before the present generation runs out and in most instances they receive no corn com pensa sensation tion for the services thus ren dered other than the consciousness of duty performed As we said before these men are not confined to any held of view on the question of belt ael lt gov ern alent for british anu annexes exes some of them are so extremely in favor that nothing short of absolute autonomy for ireland at least will satisfy them while others go to the extent of desiring the emerald isles complete dis leaving it without even representation in the national parliament li between these two extremes the medium ground must exist somewhere and upon it we take it will and fenta fenian i n anarchy find a common grave it will be a matter of regret to the more judicious ludi cious and farseeing far scein seeing gf 0 of al mr brights Bright 8 admirers that he so far set aside the dignity of his years and the i reputation of his labors as even for a moment io to permit himself to dal y with the rabble by resorting ace emple expletives which are not based upon acts nor backed by reason he should have bave reflected that some of the men mea whom he holds up to the world as rebels are as aged and as able as himself and in point of actual service to the british empire ha have haie ie greatly exceeded him in all respects they are men who hold the honor of england too high to admit lor for a moment that such reforms as are needed at home will not be effected at home and that their country is never so great as when she is most j just out ot of such sentiments as these the political alchemist whose personal popularity lanty has never at any time approached bat of Gladstone coins the epithet rebel yet he gouid scarcely admit that many of the people in england scotland wales and the isles and nine tenths of the irish are rebels but they are according to his lexicon for as the elections that have taken place since coercive measures began abundantly show they are in favor of home rule and against the parly in which mr bright has certainly put forth strenuous efforts to be like his bis jamea consummation which just now would seem to be further off than might have been the case |