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Title: The life of John Bright
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: Bright, John, 1811-1889
Publisher: London : Constable & Co. Ltd.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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that Mr. Glad-stone and John Bright knew as much about religion as thatjovial pair of crusaders, Lord Randolph Churchill and SirDrummond Wolff. The two great men who had done most toexalt public life above the material level stood together to resistthe imposition of religious tests. To Gladstone the performanceof his duty in the Bradlaugh case was more painful than it wasto Bright, and therefore even more honourable ; for Gladstonewholly disliked everything about Bradlaugh, whereas Brightsaid one day to his son : It is not Bradlaughs atheism whichthey hate, but his unconscious Christianity. In one of hisspeeches on the question John Bright shocked the conven-tionalities by stating that to a large extent the workingpeople of the country do not care any more for the dogmas ofChristianity than the upper classes care for the practice of thatreligion.1 1 Bradlaugh had his admirers even among old ladies. One of them cameto the House to see him, and asked for the Member for Northampton. She
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JOHN BRIGHT(From a photograph by Mr. Rupert Potter, 1881) 1880-81) IRELAND 429 Meanwhile Irelands ancient wounds were bleeding afresh.Englands attention was again secured to her, by the LandLeague, agrarian crime, and Parnellite obstruction in the House.Coercion Bills were easy and were forthcoming, but, whileForster thought he could checkmate the Land League by lock-ing up certain village ruffians, Bright told his constituentsin November 1880 that Force is not a remedy. FortunatelyGladstone was there to apply the true remedy,5 which, afterbeing disastrously delayed by the Lords, took shape as theLand Act of 1881. Bright supported both coercive andremedial measures in the House, though he sorely groaned overthe former in the Cabinet and in his private journal. CabinetCouncil. Long discussion on Habeas Corpus Suspension.Most unpleasant matter for discussion. I wish I could escapefrom official responsibilities. But while he disliked coercion as an evil sometimes necessary,his pacific in

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