LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MR GLADSTONE.
A few days ago Lord Beaconsfield entered upon his seventy-third year; and a few davs latr Mr Gladstone entered upon his sixty-ninth. If age
necessarily makes men wise they both ought by this time to be models of segacity. They are full of years and honor, and the country is proud of both of them. Doubtless the voice of party spirit will continue to malign and even labour to belittle each in turn; but these efforts are so much waste energy, and only betoken the small-mindedness or the rancour of those who indulge in them. It would be idle to pretend that either Mr Gladstone or Lord Beaconsfield has not often laid himself open to just criticism, and it would be vain to hope that, if they are spared to the nation for another decade, ;they will not do so again. Moreover, they will not unfrequently be blamed without deserving reprehension, though the blame bestowed may have no malignant motive. As Lord Salisbury aptly remarked a little while ago, English statesmen work in a glass hive. He might have extended the observation and declared that all of us who are of any consequence live and work in glass houses, but the fact does not in any degree prevent the lavish flinging of stones.
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Kumara Times, Issue 460, 18 March 1878, Page 2
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