A LADY LIBERAL ON MR GLADSTONE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3136, 20 August 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

A LADY LIBERAL ON MR GLADSTONE.

Mrs Maria J.Sales, president of the Sydenham Ward of the Woman , s Liberal Association, and delegate to the Council of the Federation, has been speakina , her mind in a letter to the Echo with reference to the conduct of Mr Gladstone and the Gladstouian chiefs (she declines to call them Liberals) on the Woman's Suffrage Bill Of the sreat man himsejf she writes thu«:—" I search in vain for any proof of ' nobility' in the history of Mr Gladstone. His firsc speech in pablio 'vas against the emancipation of black slaves and it is a fitting , pendant that his lust, effusion should be against the emancipation of ■woman. His father was a Demerara slave-owner and we all know the force of hereJity in the blood, He in realitv cares no more about the liberty of the Irish than about ours; but he has had the mean habit through life of always grasping at, the fruits of the life long labour of others, just as they huveripemd, in spite of all his determined opposition to their cultaro. He then gathers them, and throws them to the peopls, and thns gains a cheaply earned popularity with the ignorant masses who fancy they owe him what they ha? - gained. It is by such means, aided by the hypnotic power, and oratorical talent, that he has succeeded in making himself the fetish of their imagination. "