MR GLADSTONE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1386, 1 September 1885, Page 1

MR GLADSTONE.

Ib it because Mr Gladstone is so pserleii as a Commoner than be can afford to despise a Peerage ?• Very many people whose sanity ! as nerer been suspected bare been asking hem elves this question* and the more they have reflected upon it the more puzzled they have been to, discoyer a satisfactory solution of the query. It may be conceded that in the ordinary affairs of this life ere y man has a right,’ within certain limits of (■( luce to do as he likes with hit own. ,Th* s o f wl ich a sweep, takes from a chimney is admittedly his property,' but he may not place it in the highway opposite his house, that the wind should disperse it to this er. ent annoyance of his mghbors, who woillii hat' good ground'of action Against him for instituting a nuisance. • Similarly, either p;>li icelly nr rir lly, we may not do any'hing whi h mav render us liable to the reproach of bring responsible for a dangerous pre* cedent. Very raany-unreflectire men do many things under the [impulse of,,hasty p s ien, which it may be hoped L an, reflection they regret. It, isino.n?ean distinction for • nun to be regarded as a Tribune.(Qf j; the people—to feel that he is able to keep’ touch with them, and that the breath of the one, so to speak, is the life of. the other. But msy this idea, which is as anciedtas’ancient Some, be reviy fied with as little harm to society.as the adoption by the women of England of the “ farthingale ! * of Elizabeth's time ? European Mail. ; ; ;