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Show GLADSTONE'S RESIGNATION. The world would have been in far better condition than it is today had Gladstone resigned long since, or.had he never accepted the second term of the premieiship. "We dislike to write a sentiment like this about a man who has done so many noble things in his long life. Yet truth is truth and it muet be spoken of Wm. E. Gladstone, exalted and all as he is, as of other men. He is called'the grand old man," but in what does his grandeur or his greatness consist? He certainly has filled a grand station, but can any enlightened en-lightened man point to one single evidence evi-dence of his success as a law-giver, by which the people have had their condition condi-tion bettered? In '82 he was on the other side of the Irish controversy, but he failed to squelch the Irish. "Within the last few years he has been for them and still home rule in Ireland is but a bright, unreal phantasm of the imagiu-; imagiu-; ation. "When Rothschild conceived the monstrous theory of the siDgle or gold standard he found Mr. Gladstone,' whom the people regarded bb their one friend in the .British parliament hiB willing coadjutor, notwithstanding he knew as well as Rothschild did, that, bimetalism could not be destroyed without reducing the people, his worshippers wor-shippers to penury and want, not ot . Great Britain alone but of the whole world. Ask the people of England, of Germany, of Denmark, Norway, Sweeden, of Austria, Italy, of India and last but not least of the United States, how they feel" toward the men whose selfish acts have brought them poverty . and distress. When we Bay 'people' we mean the poor, not the bondholders and the capitalists. Had this same Gladstone but uttered the word, a single word,- the interna tional monetary conference at Brussels two years since, would have recommended recom-mended the double standard. Think what that act would have done for the world. Think how many wrecked fortunes, wrecked hepes and how , much diEpair would have been saved. We can never hope for better policies while we go on canonizing canon-izing the men of Gladstone's stamp whose hands have Etricken ub down relentlessly at the bidding of tae greatest money power the world has ever seen. Is this the act of a man whose sympathies are with the people? His ref u sal of a peerage is a hypocritical hypocriti-cal piece of .self-serving humbug. Just nowi or before his retirement, he was planning and scheming the destruction de-struction of the house of lords. Would -such destruction advance the cause of the people? Not one whit. It could only result in setting up a plutocracy pluto-cracy transferring the real power of the goyernment into the hands which iiaye already grasped with a death clutch, not the money only of England, Eng-land, but of the world. Ask the Argentine Ar-gentine Republic at the other end of the world, whoBe hand it was that clutched their every hope for the future, fu-ture, and they mustjtell you it was that of this same smooth old man acting fur Rothschild. Ask the emperor of Russia Rus-sia whom he fear3 more than all other men or powers, and he will say the man whose mighty schemes of self-aggrandizement was protected Ly the retiring premier of Eneland. Ask the impoverished millions of India whose hand it was which reduced them to hopeless misery in a day. They will tell you the government of England Eng-land dominated by this same Gladstone. Glad-stone. JSo real friend of the people regrets the retirement of the man whose whole ; career has been a curse to the poor, and whose velvet covered hand wielded the bolts which have stricken down the people to build : higher and higher the palaces of the rich. We for one, , -are -traly; glad the days of Glad-Btonianism Glad-Btonianism are over. |