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Synopsis: What will Disraell do in his speech before the Houss (question, and I was puzzied biguous one in this connexion, and ‘of Commons, where the case of little Wheeler, the Mudlark, who jenough at the time to see the hoy I may be understood to mean the slipped into the Windsor Castle, 1s before the bar of justice? The {In the Queen's dining room; I was enterprise of the 3ritish, their fate of empire Is at stake. The domestic and foreign policies more puzzled later to find him power of will, their resourceful“of the Widow of Windsor's government hang in the balance. Now [sitting on the throne; but I, am ness, their common sense.” go on with the story {most puzzled now to encounter; Sir John Gadshaw began to feel CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO {him at. the Bar of this House. a little better, not because he THE SPEAKER remembered the first speech Benjamin Dis-|And yet, when I consider the caught the drift, though he, felt raeli had ever made almost 40 years before—a spectacular failure. laxger aspects of the case, it seers immensely flattered,. but because The young Jew had just, come in for Maidstone, and what a that this must have been his des- he noticed the discomfiture of the strange theatrical figure he had made, his hair ‘all curls, his fine tination from the beginning. Liberals. hands sparkling with rings, his magnificent waistcoat glittering| "I shall speak of various things.| aa 9 . with gold chains. The Speaker remembered how finally he had Of London; of Parliament, of “PARLIAMENT,” said Disraeli gone down in a gale of hostility, —— —e——_— |theories and. policies of govern- calmly, “has something in combut with his tattered pennant fly-|case. The boy was a Thames ment of nations and the wealth mon with Mr. Darwin, because it ing: mudlark who had stepped ashore!of nations, of children, and per- too is concerned with the evolu:

“Though you. won't hear me a Windsor from a coal barge; haps of politics. And if these sub- tion of Man, and now it must de-

now, the time will come when I will make you hear me!" Sometimes the Speaker dered if the Prime Minister ha ever ‘recovered from the wounds of that famous rebuff. Well, Benjamin Disraeli understood the House now—no man better; and in this the Speaker

|an open gate, .and in the court- Wheeler Case, I will remind the won-| yard had fallen through an open House that it is snot of the a|coalhole Into the cellars; from Wheeler Case Wwe are speaking, [there he had found his way upisave only as it sheds light upon [to the Queen's dining room, where|these subjects, and yet, I submit {he had been seized before Her|they are all bound up with the Majesty's eyes; then he had been story of this mudlark.” interrogated by the servants, and nw : with him. The Speak-|°1® of them, a kindly man if in] oN THE FRON opposition Jere 4 bond listening to rope) this Instance a misguided one, be-! bench directly across the aisle, not so much for the evident tal-lleving the boy's story that he penjamih Disraeli’s great antagents that dazzled the others, but| Nad meant to sight-see, had per-i,nist Willtam Ewart Gladstone, for the less evident ones—for his Mitted him to sit on the throne. grew uneasy. He had nothing but 408s, bred not alone for their thorough comprehension of the) “It is an extraordinary story,”|loathing for the devious methods strong jaws but for their proverHouse's mind. {Disraeli conceded, “and one that of Benjamin Disraeli, and when he bial courage and tenacity. These Mr. Disraeli informed the the police hesitated to accept. For sensed one commencing to operate are the descendants of the wolf, House that any suspicion of an indeed from the series of for- he was always uneasy. the jackel, and possibly other Trish conspiracy against the tultous circumstances by which] “What shall I say is the true Species of monster long extinct. Queen iri the Wheeler case must the boy Wheeler got into the cas- wealth of nations?” went on Mr.| “And how were they evolved? be deprecated by Her Majesty's tie, it appeared that the way must Disraell easily in his beautiful! Not like the pariah dog of India,

his principle of natural selgetiofi.’ Mr. Darwin himself holds out to us another possibility, which he calls ‘man’s power of selection. And what is this? Why, it is the art of improving the breed, and we see the results of it-all round {our British -countrysides—in our foxhounds, bred for speed, stamina, and perspicacity; in our sheep dogs, bred for Intelligence, gentleness, and heart; and in our- bull-

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Government, since the MOAt X- > " : ! es grand or—the cringing —mongret—of £ haustive police inquiry had un-| police have not been able to diss capital of Britain? The true End ILondon—by cuffs and kicks,

covered no ground for suspecting|cover that it had. They find that/ wealth of Britain is British char-/in privation and filth but anything of the kind. {the gate had been left open bylacter. No character, no Liberals.” through the intelligent care of The- quiet words, which in a a-trusted porter and the coalhole| ~ A chuckle ran over the Conser- their masters, If I - inquired moment had dispelled the cloud by a tradesman; that a dense fog vative benches, but the Liberals whether this had been worth it, I that had hung over Irishmen for|blinded the sentries to the boy looked "to appreciate neither the should make myself ridiculous and Jnonths, were greeted with jubi-'and the boy to the coalhole. joke nor the compliment. draw. down upon my head the lant cheers from the Irish, It happened that I was present “But character, being a word so wrath of every sportsman in the {In the castle on the evening in'often loosely used, may be an am- House, But permit me to inquire,

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whether it be either right or rea- comes to stand tonight at the Bar sat adamant with folded arms, anomaly, net, Decause it cannot sonable. to go on improving our!of the House of Commons. |seeing through the whole per-|raise {itself above the mud, but breeds of dog and not our breed’ “wheeler must be punished. formance. Let Disraeil bait him because it did—because from the of man? i And I caution the House not to|into attacking the Government's mud of Tama 2 und into “The infant mortality rate look upon his actions in the light!policies - through the Wheeler, the Bight 3% - Je Ringadin; among our urban poor-is appal- of - & mere boyish adventure. Case? Stand up and lay into that for not by any phys aws did ling; yet many deaths are never True, he jis only seven; but was Pitiful figure o

f a child that this/it do this, but in spite of them. | ” - ~ even registered. They inspire to.it simply that as he stood in the Sorcerer had created for his own| “BUT HOUSE must n shame us with thoughts of what mud that day he heard, as chil-|design? That would be just what THE ot

| suppose that I rose here to defend their country -might have done dren do, as young Dick Whitting-|the sorcerer wished him to do. hecler. I have said that the true

for them and they for their coun- ton heard, the high bells of Cock-| Better, perhaps, to let the Teer | wealth of Britain is British char.

For who shall say .there aigne? Partly so, I do not doubt. Case pass for the trifle it

try. | Gladstone; too, could sense

, and by drawing attenti wers no Hampdens among them, | the acter and by 8 on

“To begin with, it would be a| to one facet of that character or Miitons? Ah, but one of them, istake 5 suppose him an orai-|teIPer of the House. : | which seems to shine through the might easily have been Wheeler, 1, ry mudlark. Somewhere he has| In that small pause, Disraell’s deed that Wheeler has done, I and then we should have been ni req up stray bits of knowledge yes had rested om his. rival's) ve only sought to advance the spared the bother of trying himiguich in themselves stamp him face, and as if reading his ase of British children, among r an extraordinary one, For ex- thoughts, he said: “By what & gpm ne is but a ha’penny bit of Commons. lample, he has heard of at least felicitous turn of events has iti,» great capital investment in “How evér did Wheeler escape? two of his country’s greatest he- tome to pass, . therefore, that the. future. But nothing I have For only think how hard society roes -- Wellington and Nelson; through the Queen, this small g5i4 can alter the fact that tried to kill himg It laid an am-jand though it shock the House, Briton makes his appeal to Us. yyeeler has broken the law; nor bush for him at his birth, sur-'I must say that among mudlarks:He seems to appeal not for him-| mst it be supposed that the Govrounding his cradle with rats this is most unusual. Then he ex-|S€if alone, but for all British ernment - commends him to his and vermin. It sent off gasses hibits an unnatural attitude to- Children who are as he is. [country’s mercy. J from foul drains to pollute ‘the wards England; unnatural be-| “The Government's foreign pol-| “Had I been so careless of my air he breathed. |cause In spite of all it has done icy,” Disraeli was saying, “which duty as. to rise here for that pur. “His country did not stop at at-/to him, he seems to love.it. Now some have called imperialism, is pose, Mr. Speaker, I should have tacking his physical being. It Some sailor told him. that Her|in its simplest terms a policy of made a different speech. And then also attacked his spirit, and his Majesty the Queen was the!securing food for our population,|I probably should have ¢ited the soul. It taught him nothing. Mother of England. We have all bastions to secure the supply, now|old English law that a cat may a aa heard this expression, and of and in the future. The Govern- look.at a Queen. . “BUT ONE DAY he raised his course we do not take it literally, ment’s domestic = policy, which] “I should then have been left head and looked about him, and Put this unenlightened 4ittle some have called socialism, is a without a single argument with he walked out of the mud, and he ©TPhan did.. And that, too, was policy of improving the breed. which to defend the boy—save went to see the Queen. Had the Why hejturned to her, and went Together they make a natfonaljonly one,” and again the voice way been prepared for him? trailing mud into Windsor Castle. policy of survival. {became grave and penetrating: te's—wal " why I say that | “We are toldin The I f in this case a cons but they were no let to Wheejer, née did was no mere boyish adven- Species that the greatest anom- did exist ‘as charged, thén. that The Household Guards, I am told, ture. But it seems to me that no|aly in nature is a bird that can- conspiracy was not against the are the finest soldiers in England,|duke or admiral has ever paid the not fly, I should have thought it Queen, but against the boy. But I but he passed them as if they Queen of the United Kingdom a'was a human spirit that could should not have appealed to his had® not been there. And” he saw handsomer compliment.” ‘not soar, but these are common country’s mercy. I should have

the Queen, as you have heard. x # & in Britain now, and perhaps are appealed only to its justice.” And he sat on the throne, as THE HOUSE waited attentively no more than a paradox of the, And Mr. Disraeli sat down. charged: +for—his next words, but across times: But Iwill cite you an Eng-| : {To Be Continued) “And 80," said Disraeli, “he the aisle William E. Gladstone dish mudlark, and say it 1s a great gy permission of Doubleday & BE

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