. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. arty the new Liberal government took at first nonotice. It is always the plan of the two leading parties in a country toignore the third as long as possible. Finally the remnants of the two com-bine against the one, and then there is a sudden change of scene. At theopening of Parliament in January of 1881 it was soon found
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. arty the new Liberal government took at first nonotice. It is always the plan of the two leading parties in a country toignore the third as long as possible. Finally the remnants of the two com-bine against the one, and then there is a sudden change of scene. At theopening of Parliament in January of 1881 it was soon found difficult todeal with these men of one idea. And yet they must be dealt with ; for astate of affairs had now supervened in Ireland which could no longer be .s6o LIFE AND TIMES OK ^\•ILL1AM E. GLADSTONE. overlooked in the administration. We may suppose that Mr. Gladstone didnot desire to overlook it, but his temper was always to proceed with cautionand by tentative stages. The situation in Ireland tlid not admit of this method. In that countrysuffering, want, distress, resentment, rebellion, hatred, and every specter thatarises under the wand of oppression had come to the huts of the lowly. Itwas under these conditions that the great Land League of 1879 was FENIAN DISORDERS IN IRELAND—ATTACK ON A POLICE VAN. That socio-political compact had for its object, in a word, the alleviation ofthe hardships of the Irish tenants. We must say that the methods to beemployed did not much regard the existing laws. Those laws had beenmade for the most part by the landlords in their own interest. The resultwas at last the outbreak of crime and outrage. .Such was the situation thatthe new Liberal government -was given no option in the matter of taking im-mediate cognizance of the condition of Ireland. Under such circumstances it is always the method to try force order sounds an alarm and publishes a declaration to theeffect that, whatever may have been the antece
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