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There's Bradlaugh; I hope they'll make it warm for him yet. The enemy in general behaved with their accustomed generosity. The _Irish Times_ led the way with an intimation that he was malingering, stating further that the Irish members had opposed him because he
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The _North Star_ repeated the charge of malingering with exuberant brutality. The _St James's Gazette_ spoke of Bradlaugh as having behaved
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further repeating the lie that he had
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to take the oath. Others rated him for his constant appearances in the law courts. The _Standard_, on being courteously asked to insert a letter correcting a misrepresentation, suppressed it. Liberals, professing to deprecate the course taken, yet palliated it; and Professor Thorold Rogers, among others, declared that nothing the House of Commons could do was illegal. The ministerial journals, of course, condemned him, telling him he had
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by his attempt. He was to sit still and wait till the Ministry should have the courage to make an Affirmation Bill a Cabinet question--a course which they refused from first to last to take, though it would at once have compelled their deserters to return to their allegiance. On this it may here suffice to say, once for all, that the justification given for Gladstone's course in the matter simply serves to show how low are the standards of our
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Christian statesmanship down to the present day. The justification is that Gladstone was bound to refrain from
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his party by making the admission of the Atheist a Cabinet question. The good of the party must override the claims of justice. Mr Gladstone's memory is welcome to all the credit which such an argument will gain him from a posterity probably devoid of his sense of religious enlightenment. It will be a doubtful certificate of the foundations he claims for his morality, that while conscious of