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Title: 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
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 Statesmen
Publisher: Springfield, O. : J.W. Jones
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-, of crime, perhaps of very horrible RETIREMENT AND LAST YEARS. 617
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WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE AND HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, DOROTHV DREW. 6l8 LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. crime—for example, the sad case mentioned in the papers to-day of themassacre of persons in a part of China—we at once assume, O, yes, in allcountries, unfortunately, there are malefactors, there are plunderers, thereare murderers ; and these are the people whose deeds we are going to con-sider. It is not so here. Here you will find nothing of that kind. Wehave nothing to do with what are called the dangerous classes of the com-munity. It is not their proceedings which you are asked to consider. It isthe proceedings of the government at Constantinople and of its agents.There is not one of those misdeeds for which the government at Constan-tinople is not morally responsible. It was just before the event last referred to that Mr. Gladstone senthis final communication to the House of Commons. This was done underdate of July 5, 1895. The Irish cause had continued to obtrude itself eve

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