The Life of Joseph ChamberlainChas. Cooper, 1885 - 74 páginas |
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Ameer Bill Birmingham Liberal Board of Trade Boers brought buildings Cabinet candidates caucus Chamberlain delivered Chapter citizens Coercion Coercion Act complete concession Conservatives considerable CORPORATION STREET crofters cumulative voting declared disestablishment doubt earnestness election Election of 1880 electoral England enormous entered entirely establishment existence fact favour firm future Gladstone Government honour hostility House important impossible improvement increased interest Ireland Irish question Joseph Chamberlain landlords leader legislation Liberal Association Liberal party London Lord Hartington Lord Salisbury mainly due manufacturers member for Birmingham Messrs monopoly moreover naturally necessary necessity Nettlefold Nettlefold and Chamberlain object opinion oration organisation Parliament Parliamentary perhaps political poor present President principles programme proposed Radical party realised recognised reform regard rendered result Russia scheme School Board secure Sir Bartle Frere speech success Tory Town Council Town Hall Transvaal triumph United Kingdom utterly views vote
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Página 58 - The pacification of Ireland at this moment depends, I believe, on the concession to Ireland of the right to govern itself in the matter of its purely domestic business. Is it not discreditable to us that even now it is only by unconstitutional means that we are able to secure peace and order in one portion of her Majesty's dominions?
Página 52 - Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class — of the class to which he himself belongs, " who toil not, neither do they spin; " whose fortunes, as in his case, have originated in grants made in times...
Página 58 - Austrian rule. An Irishman at this moment cannot move a step — he cannot lift a finger in any parochial, municipal, or educational work, without being confronted with, interfered with, controlled by an English official, appointed by a foreign Government, and without a shade or shadow of representative authority.
Página 58 - ... interfered with, controlled by an English official, appointed by a foreign government, and without a shade or shadow of representative authority. I say the time has come to reform altogether the absurd and irritating anachronism which is known as Dublin Castle. That is the work to which the new parliament will be called.
Página 69 - ... collateral questions entirely unprejudiced and untouched. I claim the freedom of the schools as a great aid to the spread of education, and as a just concession to the necessities of the poor. The fee is a great bar to regularity of attendance. It accounts for the greater part of the waste in our educational system. It accounts for the great majority of the empty seats in our schools. A few days ago I received a letter from a schoolmaster in a great school in a Staffordshire town, in which he...
Página 58 - I do not believe that the great majority of Englishmen have the slightest conception of the system under which this free nation attempts to rule a sister country. It is a system which is founded on the bayonets of 30,000 soldiers encamped permanently as in a hostile country.
Página 69 - ... and who yet are too proud to apply for parish relief. This gentleman said he thought it would be interesting for me to see some of the letters he was constantly receiving from the parents to whom he had to apply in these circumstances. I should like to read to you one or two of these letters. It will bring home to you the nature of the hardships, the unnecessary hardships, which this system inflicts upon the industrious poor. The first letter reads, ' If you please I cannot send you the money...
Página 54 - I have not characterised in language a whit too strong, have now come to an end. They are going on still. The agricultural labourers are still being robbed. You cannot go into a single country lane in which you will not find that the landowners on each side of the road have already enclosed lands which for centuries have belonged to the people, or that they are on the point of enclosing them.
Página 52 - Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class — of the class to which he himself belongs — " who toil not, neither do they spin...
Página 73 - England for some reasonable amount of land in cultivation by which they might eke out their miserable wages, will cover also the case of the crofters. I propose that the local authorities should have power in every case to take land compulsorily, at its fair value, for any public purpose...