Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — An English Disgrace. [ARTICLE]

An English Disgrace.

Thru will be •'rush for Alaska next spring. The Geological Survey reports, through its Secretary, that the River Yukon ia an enormous stream, 2,400 miles long, and navigable for 2,009 miles. Gold and other precious deposits of metals qan be seen cropping out of **ithe ledges on the river’s banks; and in shallows on the bars, $25 to SSO a day «aa be washed out of the sands. Nor are the precious metals confined to the river vicinity. Alaska is. in tine, a vast treasure bouse of wealth. The winter’s approach will head off any expeditions this season, but it will not be unlikely that a second California excitement will break out next year. 8

Indiantpoliii News. After all, it is by no means certain that the Engiiah press is not playing the rebuking “pot” to our “kettle" when it oensnres so viciously the undeniable ooursencas and unmahlv vituperation of our party orga,ns in the late contest Mr. Gladstone with bis wife in his company, was hissed and hooted by the under graduates of Oxford university, with a presidency and defiance of decency that we are confident can be found in no popular reception of any public man of any party in this country, in the late eonflict or any before it A man of the age and fame and public services of Mr. Gladstone would be treated here by his most unspairing party opponents with at the least such respect as lies in silence, and at the worst such attention as lies in quiet indifference. We can’t imagine Way condition of perky feeling that would receive him with hoots and jeers, derisive tells, as these young ruffians of the ‘•scholar’s gown” did Mr. Gladstone. Democrats by the thousands mixed in the meetings that Mr. Blaine or Mr. Sherman addressed, bat they made no disturbing uproar and indulged in no insulting language or demonstrations. Republicans never dreamed of howling down Mr. Thurman any more than they did of dragging him from the platform and lynching him. But these young sprouts of the nobility and the gentry, the rising cream of the English social and political milk, not only howled down a venerable statesman of four score years, but had not the manliness to spare his gray-haired wife. They insulted her in his company, and they richly deserved the administration of a gross of good cow-hides. Tire French Deputies are famous, or the other thing, for turning their legislative chamber into a beer-garden, and using language and action to each other there that other civilised people never use anywhere, bat the maddest deputies that ever made challenges for a meeting in the woods of Vincennes never included women, venerable, white-haired, grandmothers, in their furiousdemonstrations. This dishonor belongs to the English alone, and to the very flower and fragrance of English culture.