CANON WELDON, MR GLADSTONE, AND MR BRADLAUGH.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1692, 10 May 1883, Page 3

CANON WELDON, MR GLADSTONE, AND MR BRADLAUGH.

Tjif following letter was sent to the Premier at Cannes, by Canon Weldon, of Rothesay :—: — Right Hon. Sir, — I asked you publicly two years ago,, for ths sake of your own post arid future /history, not to take 'Mi'Bradlaugh by tho hand. Your answe'ts and actions, caused by a psuedo-Liberal-ism, have led to the belief among the unthinking that the " People's William " is only asserting the people's rights against the •' bloated Conservative aiistocrats." I 'have been a Conservative all my life, and yet I have advocated the rights of our young men in business, of the poorer clergy, and of the tenant farmers of Ireland, before your land bill or Parnell's communism was heard of, and I have suffered every kind of obloquy from the Kadicai Scotsman, though it did not dare to say a word in disproof of my letters, while opening its pages to Mr Bradlaugh. If theie ia an understanding — I must not call it treaty — between you' and Bradlaugh, as there was between you and Parnell. then his threats and his action are clear. But I warn you if you do not speak out as Premier of England, and that immediately, and with no faltering, equivocal voice, telling Northhampton th.it every constituency ,has duties to its country, to the House of Commons, and to itself, which override its rights, then upon you must fall the terrible responsibility of what may occur on the opening of Parliament ; for rest assured, however Radical Great Britan and Ireland may have become though the effects of your teaching, &he will not allow a true Liberalism to be polluted and degraded by an atheistic communism. — I have the honor, &c.,— R. Gasuoigxe Weldo>-, Ounon.

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