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and declaring that the aim of the Sudan mission was the
institution of capitalism, another S, D. F, member d, U, P.
Campbell replied that Cordon's life was "as blaneloso,,
honest$ truthful, single-purposed and self-forgetting an
any tocialiat could wiah... Gordon's sympathies have
always been with the poor and opprovwod, and i firmly
believe if we could Cot him over hero and explain to him
what wo Socialists are driving at, lie uo%ld join our ranks
tomorrow. "
(13 Part of Cordon's attraction van his
ability to appear in a number of roles which appealed to
different groups in the community, - the unselfish ascetic,
the rescuer of opprenoed peoples, the Christian soldier-saint1
the advocete of Imperial expansion; in the last resort he
was a useful stick with which to boat the Liberal Government.
Liberals and ? onconformiots joined in prntso of
Gordon in 1885. The Deily fewer announced, "No soldier
since the data of the crusades ever fascinated attention
in the name way, and aroused the same half-poetic, half-
r yetio, enthusiasm an Gordon, "
(1) IIbid, 24th & 3lnt May 1884.
(2) 6th February 1885.
(2)
The Echo, while not