Mr Chamberlain.

Manawatu Herald, 15 August 1893, Page 3

Mr Chamberlain.

The later cablegrams having brought the disputes between Mr Gladstone and Mr Chamberlain so pertinently under notice it will be u^reesting to read what is said of the latter in the Revimv of Reviews. The House of Commons may not actually, as has been remarked by a witty onlooker, have converted itself into a ring for the purpose of observing stand-up fights between Mr Chamberlain and Mr Gladstone ; but it certainly is deriving consider able entertainment from the debating dnello between these two distinguished combatants. It is no longer in doubt that, after Mr Gladstone, Mr Chamberlain is the best debater in the House. When the G.0.M., is gone it is Mr Chamberlain who will wear his mantle, and Mr Chamberlain who alone can draw the bow of Ulysses. The younger man is coarser, less magnanimous, and infinitely less ruse than the Old Parliamentary Hand, but he is a hard hitter, resolute and indomitable, while as a debater he is lucid and persuasive. If he were but capable of magnanimity he might lead the country yet. But the keen eagerness of the partisan, the rancorous bitterness with which he pursues real or imagined private slights, and the lack of that genial, generous good nature which distinguishes Mr Balfour, stand in his way. Still, even his worst enemies admit his imperial spirit and his masterful talents in debate, and both qualities have been conspicuous in the debates on Home Rule# '