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Gladstone had never "lacked pride in the raintenance of
the honour and integrity of the Fºpire. "` (1)
Possibly
only
the Empire of pelf-governing colonies was implied here, but
Liberals were beginninG to actively extol the virtues of
an Imperialist stand and this position could easily lead to
support for the extension of the Empire,
A few Liberal r4. i'n, took up an Imperialist position over
the Sudan. On 29th February 1885, twelve of them voted for
tlorthcote'c motion of censure. They included Joseph Cowen
M.? o for Newcastle on Tyne who had made the transition from
advanced Radical Idcpublicanicm to Imperialism. The owner of
the 2iewcootle Chronicle, Cowan in hin youth had been an ardent
supporter of NNazzini and of Liberal revolutions abroad an well
as an advocvto of social reform at homes In 1876 ho had
spoken against the Royal titles Bill an an "attempt to fasten
onto the constitution a military and autocratic figurehead. "
But by 1878, the threat from Bussta had made hin a partisan of
the Conservatives over the Eastern question declaring; "before
he was a political partisan he was a patriot s and that
before he was a Radical he was an Englishman. "
lie favoured a permanent and stable occupation
(1) Bradford Observer, 27th 'larch 1885,
(2) William Duncan, Lif" of Jonerh Cowan, Newoactle 1904, pp. 88-9.
(3) ; bid, p. 97.
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