Description - Recent Events and a Clue to Their Solution by Lord Robert Montagu
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...used as a potent engine, by means of which the other and more important matter could be passed; a more important matter, namely, Home Rule for Ireland. Not only Home Rule for Ireland, but the disintegration and breaking up of Parliament into numerous smaller assemblies, in such a way as to weaken, or rather annihilate its power. The Liberal Minister and the Radical Cabinet were the instruments for breaking up the Liberal party! No. LI. ON the 9th of August, 1882, the Lord Mayor of the City of London gave his usual banquet to the Ministers; and Mr. Gladstone seized on that festive occasion to poke up the slumbering embers of indignation against the House of Commons. He spoke first of a "thoroughly searching "and drastic reform of procedure" being necessary to restore the House of Commons to a normal efficiency. He then asserted that the empire had so much increased, and that there were so many new calls for legislation, that it was utterly impossible for the House of Commons to perform the duties of legislation. Other bodies must, therefore, he said, be instituted to do part of that work of legislation. In those words he clearly pointed to a very extended scheme of Home Rule. Then again, he continued, the House of Commons itself must be reformed, in order to enable it to perform any of its duties. Lastly, he warned the country that they must dismiss from their minds all flimsy and secondary objections, and unmanly fears; and drive from their imaginations all the bogies by which men are frightened against great changes: such as "the destruction of tlie representative system" "the liberties of the people," and "the establishment of "an absolute and irresponsible monarchy, or rather, ...
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