Severe Criticism on Mr. Gladstone's Policy.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1698, 10 August 1887, Page 2

Severe Criticism on Mr. Gladstone's Policy.

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LONDON, August 7.

Mr. Bright's speech at the Greenwich banquet consisted chiefly of a strong onslaught on Mr. Gladstone's retrogade and rcvolutionar}' policy, to which he had committed himself at the cost of political consistency and unity of the great Liberal party. He reviewed the circumstances of his own secession from the leader to whom he had formerly given faithful and uuswerving allegiance, urging in justification that the welfare of the nation demanded thai its consolidation should he maintained unimpaired. Mr. Gladstone hnd wrecked the work of a lifetime by the folly of a day. Not content with fomenting Irish hatred of English rule, he had exerted his great abilities in trying to disturb the loyal .attachment of the Welsh people. In his sudden zeal for Irish revolt against law and order, and his opposition to the attempts of Parliament to place the administration of justice in the hands of free and uncorrupted tribunals, Mr. Gladstone had not hesitated to defame English juries. His new-born fanaticism lent great weight and influence to the obstruction of the orderly proceefljwg.s m Parliament. Tlie Marquis of Hartington spoke in a similar strain. He declared that the secession of himself and the great body of the Unionist Liberals had been compelled by Mr. Gladstone's concession to the disloyalists, who were striving to split the political parties of the Empire. It would be political imbecility to now abandon weapons hitherto effective in promoting and preserving the Imperial .strength of England. The Tories were prepared to undertake measures of reform and progress, and the Unionists, recognising the necessity of stimulating their allies to progressive legislation, would assist the leaders of the two parties to effect a closer union. The time, however, was not yet ripe for the definite step of binding the Tory and Unionists leaders, and further experience would he necessary to enable this to be done effectively. He believed that during the recess the Unionists would formulate a policy establishing a union for the benefit of the country generally.

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