Word: gladstonianism
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Poetry-loving Bachelor Mackenzie King spends so much time at his country house, "Kingsmere," that Mitch Hepburn dubbed him "The Hermit of Kingsmere." In win-ter he lives at "Laurier House" in Ottawa, which Sir Wilfred left to the Liberal Party. A Gladstonian Liberal, the red-faced Prime Minister once investigated industrial relations for the Rockefeller Institute, worked out a plan of employer-employe representation that was put into practice by Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., Bethlehem Steel Co. and others. He is just the sort of "safe" Liberal that Canadians could trust to see them through the war without grabbing...
...have shaken ourselves entirely free from the Gladstonian structure and tradition of finance. The gold standard, an enormous sinking fund, the strict 'and punctual discharge of international obligations, all are gone, unwept, unhonored and unsung...
...after another M. P.'s from Britain's stricken manufacturing districts damned Japan for dumping, for forging British trademarks, for sweeping many a British cargo boat off Far Eastern seas by debased yen competition. To champion Japan uprose only one M. P., that doughty Gladstonian Liberal. Sir Herbert Samuel, who lately led 33 Orthodox ("Free Trade") Liberals across the House from the Government benches. In his first opposition speech, Sir Herbert confined himself to cotton. Japan's commercial advantage in that field, he said, results from a well organized cotton textile industry "with which slipshod British methods...
...true middle ground of British opinion was perhaps taken by the Daily Chronicle, a newspaper directed by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, and other Liberals of the vanishing Gladstonian-Asquithian stamp. "We can assure our American friends," pontificated the Chronicle, "that they ought not attribute this faux pas to wickedness, but only to the stupidity of our Ministers...
...Against Gladstonian reforms she raged as follows in a letter to Lord Granville, Gladstone's Foreign Secretary: "The Queen herself can never have any confidence in the men who encourage reform for the sake of alteration and pulling down what exists. . . . A democratic monarchy she will not consent to belong to . . . Others must be found if that...