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Gladstone’s extraordinary power, and of the sure respect of a British audience for manful handling and firm dealing in a minister, if only the appeal be high enough.
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Morley comments on Gladstone's abilities and the respect he commanded from the British public during his speeches.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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