William Ewart Gladstone person
also: William Gladstone, Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Gladstone
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By 1859, he settles back in England and joins the House of Commons, a member of Parliament. And he becomes an admirer of a guy by the name of William Gladstone. Are you familiar with Gladstone? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's another really interesting …
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equality of opportunity. Not equity, people. Everything we talk about believing in, these guys were preaching 200 years ago. They wanted to repeal taxes and get rid of protectionist trade barriers. They called it Gladstone liberalism, and i…
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He felt he was in dread of the judgments of God upon England for our national iniquity towards China. He called the opium wars a war more unjust in its origin, a war more calculated in its progress to cover this country with permanent disgr…
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What do we call those, the union ward bosses who give you a job if you voted the way they wanted? Right. Couldn't do that with a secret vote. Gladstone was also very outspoken in his opposition to the Ottoman Empire. In 1886, he proposed ho…
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The Labor Party. Same thing happened in America. The Labor Union started out as classical liberal and ended up being leftist. Gladstone was part of that. So great man. That was the hero of our guy, Lord Acton. They were really good friends.…
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1869, Queen Victoria raised him to the peers as Baron Acton. That happened because Gladstone had interceded for him prior to Gladstone heading to Rome, ready for this, to resist the Pope's plan to have what's known as papal infallibility co…