那么,对于我们这些门外汉来说, 这个约翰布莱特究竟何方神圣?如果是在十九世纪, 卡什先生向我们提出的这个问题, 会令任何人感到诧异。 在1878年, Punch报纸出版了一系列的连载漫画, 讲述了被认为是这个国家最伟大的政治家的3个人, 他们当中有本杰明迪斯累利,威廉格莱斯顿, 还有一位就是约翰布莱特。 曾于1860-1877年间担任该报主编的瓦尔特伯格霍特称赞这位生于1811年, 曾担任杜伦、曼切斯特和伯明翰地区议员,拥有跨越了50个年头政治生涯的老议员布莱特为声誉和成就超越了本时代的当代政治家。 在1913年为其出版的一本传记中, 该书作者也将布莱特描述为一位罕见的能被称为英雄的政坛人物。
A Quaker born in Rochdale, Bright made his name campaigning for the repeal of theprotectionist Corn Laws, distinguishing himself, as Karl Marx testified, as one of the mostgifted orators that England has ever produced. He was inspiring as well as courageous,and his passion for free trade was allied to his passion for democracy. He crusadedagainst monopoly, aristocracy, slavery and more. It was Bright who said that England isthe mother of Parliaments, a phrase that has passed into idiom. He fought tirelessly for theReform Act of 1867 which gave the vote to working-class men. A radical as well as anonconformist, Bright was vocal in his opposition to the Crimean war, which he believedto be un-Christian, a stance that eventually lost him his parliamentary seat.
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