Political Giants.
Surely, if three men in history ever were recognised and supported and obeyed by the Demos, they were M. G.imbetta, Mi Gladstone, and Prince Bism-irk There was not a hostile criiie in France who did not regard M. Gambetta's hold over the people as too great for his country's good. There is not a Tory in England who does not dwell oa the " infatuation " of the people for Mr Gladstone. There is not a politician in Europe who does not see and say that the unwillingness of Germans to let Prince Bismarck resign and disappear is of all risible obstacles to tree Parliamentary action in Germany, theone most immediately felt. The disappearance of M. Gambetta will, and that of Mr Gladstone or Prince Bismarck would, it is believed, alter history. That belief may be accurate or otherwise, and still it remains true that an individual can, in spite of wide suffrages, become as great in our generation as he ever could in any period of the world's career. So far from the individual dwindling, he looms larger and larger, and his forse grows greater and greater. — Spectator.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 99, 3 May 1883, Page 3
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189Political Giants. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 99, 3 May 1883, Page 3
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