. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . f future attacks on himself. The appeal which closed this speech was received with pro-tracted cheering. Such was its effect upon those who heard it,that the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself remarked that hewas not surprised at the enthusiastic applause which followedthe speech. Mr. Gladstones pamphlet before mentioned had argued thatthe only way to secure any permanent good for the Christianprovinces of Turkey was to turn the Turkish officials bag andbaggage out of them. His enemies were not slow to quotegarbled extracts from this argum
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . f future attacks on himself. The appeal which closed this speech was received with pro-tracted cheering. Such was its effect upon those who heard it,that the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself remarked that hewas not surprised at the enthusiastic applause which followedthe speech. Mr. Gladstones pamphlet before mentioned had argued thatthe only way to secure any permanent good for the Christianprovinces of Turkey was to turn the Turkish officials bag andbaggage out of them. His enemies were not slow to quotegarbled extracts from this argument to prove that Mr. Glad-stone favored nothing less than the expulsion of all the Turksfrom Europe. Against this accusation, and against the chargethat he had advocated a different policy at the close of the Crim-ean war from that which he upheld now, he was obliged to de-fend himself in Parliament as well as out of it. But the mis-chief was more easily done than undone. He was representedas demanding the instant expulsion of every Turk—man, wo-. Marquis of Salisbury—Premier of Gieat Britain. 336 In Opposition. 3&7 man and child—from Europe; if this were done, the Eussianswould at once occupy Constantinople, and the power of Eussiabe indefinitely increased. Lord Beaconsfield, on the other hand,was opposed to any extension of the Czars dominions, and tookgreat care to keep this continually before the minds of the ,people. There were many sneers, too, from the Government and iits supporters, about sentimentality introduced in questions ofstatesmanship. Thus it came to pass that Lord Beaconsfieldwas looked upon as the champion of England, and the enemy ofher enemy; while his great rival was openly accused of beingthe friend and instrument of Eussia, by thousands of English-men who honestly believed what they said. So, by degrees,the great masses of the people began to look with different eyesupon the war, and to think that the interests of the countrywere perhaps safe in B
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