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34471 | [ 524:1] Later in alluding to the fall of his ministry he asked:Why did it fall? |
34471 | [ 529:2] The report went on to discuss the occult question: Who was responsible for the Newcastle Programme? 34471 How then did the Newcastle Programme come into existence? 34471 It is necessary to present a united front to the Opposition, but if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle? 34471 Jinks? |
34471 | Jinks?" |
34471 | Jinks?" |
35184 | And is the Empire whose spirit leads to such results to be spoken of as if it were a mere, ruthless military dominion? |
35184 | But how has this power been used in times of peace? |
35184 | If_ that_ is the meaning of Imperialism, who will cavil at it? |
35184 | Is there any parallel to these events in the history of the world? |
35184 | What are the reasons for this? |
35184 | What were its results? |
35184 | What, then, has the establishment of British power meant in India? |
35184 | Where will you find a parallel to that statement of policy by the supreme government of a ruling race? |
35184 | Would it have been as great, or as valuable, if it had been compulsory? |
19609 | We were ruled before by King, Lords, and Commons, now by a General, Court- martial, and Commons; and, we pray you, what is the difference? |
19609 | But Huguenots and Jesuits, Hooker and Milton-- what influence had their writings on the mass of English people? |
19609 | By what right are they whom men call lords greater folk than we? |
19609 | Did any other form of government devised by the wit of man make such universal appeal? |
19609 | Ireland might, or might not, become a democracy under Home Rule-- who can say? |
19609 | What but democracy can answer to the call for political liberty that sounds from so many lands and in so many varying tongues? |
19609 | What could they do but take up arms to end an intolerable oppression? |
19609 | Why should the plan be not equally useful in the government of the country? |
19609 | Why should the workman not be esteemed by kings and universities? |
19609 | Will he climb still higher in office, or will he pass to the limbo peopled by those who were and are not? |
19609 | and then with Henry I.? |
5183 | What is it to offer a_ false reason?_ It is the alleging for, or against a law, something else than its good or evil effects. |
5183 | And I can hear the woman suffragist interject,"Is there not a grave danger that unflattering generalisations about woman may be erroneous?" |
5183 | And can any firm reasons be rendered for the belief that the giving of votes to women in England would be any whit more harmful than in the Colonies?" |
5183 | But I hear the reader interpose,"Is there not a grave danger that generalisations may be erroneous?" |
5183 | But I think I hear the reader interpose,"What, then, is chivalry if it is not a question of serving woman without reward?" |
5183 | How can one, then, without cold shudders think of that legal system which the female amateur legal reformer would bring to the birth? |
5183 | It is as if Bentham had never taught:--"What is it to offer a_ good reason_ with respect to a law? |
5183 | PART III IS THERE, IF THE SUFFRAGE IS BARRED, ANY PALLIATIVE OF CORRECTIVE FOR THE DISCONTENTS OF WOMAN? |
5183 | Quite marvelously has the woman suffragist in this connexion misapprehended; or would she have us say misrepresented? |
5183 | What kind of logical sanction is it, then, which can attach to reasonings such as are to be set out here? |
48614 | If representative government is good for men, why should it be bad for women? |
48614 | It is a very bold experiment,he said;"our colonies are democratic in the highest degree; why do they not try it?" |
48614 | Why do members of Parliament lightly break their promises to non- voters? |
48614 | Have we not in our own time heard the ladies who first joined the Primrose League described by an excited politician as"filthy witches"? |
48614 | If this is a good argument, why not extend its application to the militant suffragists? |
48614 | If this, indeed, is so, why invite women into the turmoil? |
48614 | If women are incapable of forming a sound judgment in grave political issues, why invite them and urge them to express an opinion at all? |
48614 | Is it the intention of the Government that the Reform Bill shall go through all its stages in 1912? |
48614 | What have the facts been? |
48614 | What have they done to lose one of the most elementary guarantees of liberty and citizenship? |
48614 | Will the Bill be drafted in such a way as to admit of any amendments introducing women on other terms than men? |
48614 | Will the Government regard any amendment enfranchising woman which is carried as an integral part of the Bill in all its stages? |
48614 | Will the Government undertake not to oppose such amendments? |
41304 | But what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst friends? |
41304 | Did I deliver the Speech well? |
41304 | Have you not a troop of horse in his Majesty''s service? |
41304 | How did you get down? |
41304 | Is the House up? |
41304 | No satin covering decks th''unsightly boards; No velvet cushion holds the youthful Lords; And claim illustrious tails such small regard? 41304 Now, is it to lower the price of corn, or is n''t it?" |
41304 | Ought females to be admitted? |
41304 | This is too bad,he said at length,"ca n''t you stop?" |
41304 | What will happen? |
41304 | Why not? |
41304 | You rascal,said Trevor to his servant;"how dare you bring this gentleman up the back stairs? |
41304 | Gunter?" |
41304 | How then can a member vacate his seat in the simplest fashion? |
41304 | They would only come to peep into the House once or twice a week, he says, to show themselves in such disguises, and ask,"What news? |
41304 | When at length he was aroused,"Where are we?" |
41304 | Whom shall he choose? |
41304 | he inquired on a famous occasion in the Irish House of Commons,"are we to beggar ourselves for fear of vexing posterity? |
32612 | Apart from the theory of the matter, however( a theory vested in an outworn feudalism), what is its effect in practice? |
32612 | But what are the chances of this? |
32612 | Can such a Court be found? |
32612 | During the early days of the second French Republic a customer entered a bookseller''s and asked:"Have you a copy of the French Constitution?" |
32612 | How can we be represented in the State in respect of our functions? |
32612 | How has it, in fact, worked elsewhere? |
32612 | How is such a decision of the Judicial Committee to be put into effect? |
32612 | How shall a place be found for him or for her; and when the place is found, what shall be the measure of his or her counsel? |
32612 | How will those functions be exercised? |
32612 | If so, what of the co- equality of the Community? |
32612 | Is the appeal to be to the arbitrament of strength? |
32612 | The first question that therefore at once arises is, where shall one begin first with this pyramid? |
32612 | WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION? |
32612 | Who is to judge between them? |
32612 | Will not necessity drive them to this? |
32612 | Yet, even supposing that these questions of justice are neglected, how is the system likely to work? |
15681 | Unduly low rates of wages, excessive hours of labour, insanitary condition of workplaces--what does all that mean? |
15681 | Will you tax butter? |
15681 | And now is there nothing we can do to help forward this great object? |
15681 | And secondly, can we do anything to obtain for sweated workers, whether in homes or factories, rates of remuneration less palpably inadequate? |
15681 | Are we less competent to make a thorough study of these questions than other people, as for instance the Germans, or are we too lazy? |
15681 | But are we to be content with that? |
15681 | But is that any argument against it? |
15681 | Can we do anything by law to screw up the remuneration of the worst- paid workers to the minimum necessary for tolerable human existence? |
15681 | He is going absurdly too far; but what gave birth to his doctrine? |
15681 | How is the Unionist party going to confront the great problems of the present day? |
15681 | How much food is she likely to have? |
15681 | How much time will be hers to keep the place clean and tidy? |
15681 | Now, what is the essential difference between Tariff Reformers and the advocates of the present system? |
15681 | The question is: Can anything be done? |
15681 | Was it Conservative criticism which killed the Bill? |
15681 | Well, within less than two years the question was submitted to the nation; and who proved to be right? |
15681 | What do we mean by sweating? |
15681 | What does that mean? |
15681 | What is its offence? |
15681 | Why should we make them a present of those good objects? |
15681 | Why should we not have Unionist Labour members as well as Radical Labour members? |
15681 | Why, you may well ask, should we be bound by any such rule? |
15681 | Will they? |
39711 | Is not this good if it be true?... 39711 Some there were,"he says,"in the Tower who were put in it when very young; should they bring a habeas corpus, would the court deliver them?" |
39711 | All''ora il Signor Howardo li domandò per qual regina egli pregasse, se per Elisabetta? |
39711 | But after all, when we come fairly to consider it, is not this the case with every disaffected party in every state? |
39711 | But does it follow that the kingdom would be the more prosperous, if all the estates of the peerage were diverted to similar endowments? |
39711 | But had he no previous hint? |
39711 | But if the clergy could not read the language in which their very prayers were composed, what other learning or knowledge could they have? |
39711 | But to what purpose is all this? |
39711 | But who, that was really desirous of establishing the truth, would have brought Raleigh into court as an unexceptionable witness on such a question? |
39711 | But, if his disposition had not been rather favourable to the king, would he have been offered, or have accepted, the great seal? |
39711 | Could his grants, if not in themselves null, avail against his posterity, heirs like himself under the great feoffment of creation? |
39711 | For why were the rights and privileges of the Netherlands more fundamental than those of England? |
39711 | Has even the slightest regulation as to judicial procedure, or any permanent prohibition, even in fiscal law, been ever enforced without statute? |
39711 | He asked us,''Why we did put out of the book the articles for the homilies, consecration of bishops, and such like?'' |
39711 | If this was the case in London, what can we think of more remote parts? |
39711 | Or were it even by voluntary concession, could a king alienate a divine gift, and infringe the order of Providence? |
39711 | The first question was,"Whether in no case whatsoever the king may not commit a subject without showing cause?" |
39711 | The king''s power was of God, that of the parliament only of man, obtained perhaps by rebellion; but out of rebellion what right could spring? |
39711 | Was it ever pretended that the king could empower his subjects to devise their freeholds, or to levy fines of their entailed lands? |
39711 | We can not indeed place Hooker( but whom dare we to place?) |
39711 | Were men''s lives better protected from unjust measures, and less at the mercy of a jealous court? |
39711 | What renders it absurd to call him and his children usurpers? |
39711 | What then had James to rest upon? |
39711 | When the list of them was read over in the house, a member exclaimed,"Is not bread among the number?" |
39711 | Wherefore then was delay to be imputed to our English parliament, if it waited for that of the sister kingdom? |
39711 | Whether the prince and state can continue and stand, and be maintained without this council of parliament, not altering the government of the state? |
39711 | Whether the speaker may overrule the house in any matter or cause in question? |
39711 | Whether there be any council that can make, add, or diminish from the laws of the realm, but only this council of parliament? |
39711 | Whether words spoken to the prince, who is after king, make any alteration in the case? |
39711 | Whether, in case of treason or felony, the king''s testimony was to be admitted or not? |
39711 | Who would not wish to believe the feeling language of his letter to the king, after the attack on him had already begun? |
39711 | Whom, in truth, could her privy council, on such an event, have resolved to proclaim? |
15572 | ''[ 49] But then when is the operation of a Bill confined to Great Britain, or, to use popular language, what is a British Bill? |
15572 | 22.--What is meaning of supremacy of Imperial Parliament? |
15572 | 58.--Why should England accept in 1893 a worse bargain than was offered her in 1886? |
15572 | Are the Irish members, if summoned, to vote on all matters, or on some only? |
15572 | Are they prepared to forget the imperative claims of evicted tenants or imprisoned zealots? |
15572 | But can the judgment be enforced? |
15572 | But is it true that even the Home Rulers of Ireland are satisfied? |
15572 | But why confine our observation to Ireland? |
15572 | But will the advantage of even this modified half- and- half Home Rule be really offered to England? |
15572 | Can it be possible that Ministerialists themselves are not certain what are the fixed principles of the new policy? |
15572 | Can we say that the new constitution works well when its real and visible sanction is the use of British soldiers? |
15572 | Do we find that Portuguese and Spaniards gladly subordinate their interests to the welfare of England? |
15572 | Does it, for example, preserve a right to trial by jury? |
15572 | Has this fact arrested the attention of Gladstonians? |
15572 | How is Home Rule to be made a reality? |
15572 | How is the modification to be obtained? |
15572 | If the blind lead the blind, what wonder if they stumble over a precipice? |
15572 | If their acquiescence was a mere pretence, what trust can we place in the assertion that they accept the arrangement of 1893? |
15572 | Is it credible that the Land Leaguers have forgotten what is due to the wounded soldiers of their cause? |
15572 | Is it not natural for Home Rulers to think that the predominant partner ought to be deprived of his predominance? |
15572 | Is it or is it not a principle that members from Ireland shall be summoned to Westminster? |
15572 | Is it possible to combine the effective supremacy of the Imperial Parliament with Home Rule or the substantial legislative independence of Ireland? |
15572 | Is the argument valid? |
15572 | Is the operation of the Bill confined to Great Britain? |
15572 | Is the plea of necessity made out? |
15572 | Is there or is there not any idea of excluding Ulster from the operation of the Bill? |
15572 | Is this a result in which any Englishman or Irishman could rejoice? |
15572 | Should the Irish Government state that the rent is iniquitously high, and refuse to collect it, what will be the position of the British Ministry? |
15572 | What Bills, I answer, ought to be passed whilst the constitution of England is undergoing fundamental alteration? |
15572 | What does that mean? |
15572 | What if the Sheriff is a strong Nationalist, and makes default? |
15572 | What if the officer of the Court is in fact some bailiff trembling for his own life? |
15572 | What is the meaning or justification of the proposed surrender by England of every compensation for Irish Home Rule which was offered her in 1886? |
15572 | What necessity is there for enacting that a sovereign Parliament, which institutes, may alter a scheme of taxation? |
15572 | What would be the result of that? |
15572 | What, for example, is the effect of an Act of the Imperial Parliament which is''impliedly''extended to Ireland? |
15572 | What, however, is the true meaning of this''supreme authority,''''supremacy,''or''sovereignty,''if you like, of the Imperial Parliament? |
15572 | What, however, rendered the three travellers unpopular? |
15572 | Where then lies the path of safety? |
15572 | Which Cabinet would have a right to retain power? |
15572 | Who can say with assurance what Gladstonians understand by Imperial supremacy? |
15572 | Why not? |
15572 | Why should Irishmen be more reasonable than other men? |
15572 | Why should we be surprised at this? |
15572 | Why, it will be said, assume that the Irish Government and the Irish people will not enforce the law? |
15572 | Will English Courts find it easy to give effect to a judgment in Ireland if the Irish Executive and its servants stand neutral or hostile? |
15572 | Will any Irishman of spirit bear this? |
15572 | Will the Imperial supremacy which is supposed to be so effective in the colonies be of any more worth in Ireland than in Victoria? |
15572 | Will they permanently acquiesce in restraints not imposed on the Channel Islands? |
15572 | [ 123] How far, then, is trust in any of the three forms, which it may on this occasion take, a reasonable sentiment? |
15572 | que ne me disiez- vous cela la veille du 15 mai?"'' |
15572 | why did n''t you remind me of that on the day before May 15?"'' |
4351 | What would you recommend me to READ? |
4351 | Will you speak to So- and- So, and ask him to vote for my man? |
4351 | And what was that working? |
4351 | And when the taxes do not yield as they were expected to yield, who is responsible? |
4351 | Are they not a race contemptuous of others? |
4351 | Are they not a race with no special education or culture as to the modern world, and too often despising such culture? |
4351 | Are they not above all nations divided from the rest of the world, insular both in situation and in mind, both for good and for evil? |
4351 | Are they not out of the current of common European causes and affairs? |
4351 | As to the caprice of Parliament in the choice of a Premier, who is the best person to check it? |
4351 | But can such a head be found? |
4351 | But can we expect such a king, or, for that is the material point, can we expect a lineal series of such kings? |
4351 | But is the House of Lords such a chamber? |
4351 | But is the House of Lords that critic? |
4351 | But just as the merchant asks his debtor,"Could you not take a bill at four months?" |
4351 | But the question comes back, Will there be such a monarch just then? |
4351 | But what did the electors of Westminster know of Mr. Mill? |
4351 | But will it be so exercised? |
4351 | But would it not have been a miracle if the English people, directing their own policy, and being what they are, had directed a good policy? |
4351 | By guiding their opinion and decision, or by following it? |
4351 | Can it be said that the characteristic qualities of a constitutional monarch are more within its reach? |
4351 | Can it be said that the royal form does more? |
4351 | Do you know that your Conservative Government has brought in a Bill far more Radical than any former Bill, and that it is very likely to be passed?" |
4351 | Do you make money or do you not make it? |
4351 | Does it do this work? |
4351 | How can it be a Radical Reform Bill? |
4351 | I happened at the time to visit a purely agricultural and Conservative county, and I asked the local Tories,"Do you understand this Reform Bill? |
4351 | I propose to begin this paper by asking, not why the House of Commons governs well? |
4351 | I shall be asked, How often is that, and what is the test by which you know it? |
4351 | If we prefer real weight to unreal prestige, why may we not have it?" |
4351 | In the royal form of Cabinet government the sovereign then has sometimes a substantial selection; in the unroyal, who would choose? |
4351 | Is it to be some panel of philosophers, some fancied posterity, or some other outside authority? |
4351 | Is this a time for cheese- paring objection? |
4351 | It is noted for many things, why is it not noted for that? |
4351 | Now, is this objection good or bad? |
4351 | Or, again,"Does it not appear to you, Sir, that the reason of this formality is extinct? |
4351 | Speaking generally, is it wise so to change all our rulers? |
4351 | The grave question now is, How far will this peculiar old system continue and how far will it be altered? |
4351 | The issue put before these electors was, Which of two rich people will you choose? |
4351 | The issue was put to the French people; they were asked,"Will you be governed by Louis Napoleon, or will you be governed by an assembly?" |
4351 | The king could say:"Have you referred to the transactions which happened during such and such an administration, I think about fourteen years ago? |
4351 | The members against the expenditure rarely come down of themselves; why should they become unpopular without reason? |
4351 | The question is, how is that object to be attained? |
4351 | The question we have to answer is,"The House of Lords being such, what is the use of the Lords?" |
4351 | They think, if they do not say,"Why are we pinned up here? |
4351 | We should then say at once,"How is it possible a man from New Zealand can understand England? |
4351 | What are the counterweights which overpower these merits? |
4351 | What chance has an hereditary monarch such as nature forces him to be, such as history shows he is, against men so educated and so born? |
4351 | What could be more absurd than what happened in 1858? |
4351 | What fraction of his mind could be imagined by any percentage of their minds? |
4351 | What is 50,000 pounds in comparison with this great national interest?" |
4351 | What is meant by"well"? |
4351 | What is the Minister to do? |
4351 | What is the chance of having him just then? |
4351 | What were the chances against a person of Lincoln''s antecedents, elected as he was, proving to be what he was? |
4351 | What will be the use of the monarch whom the accidents of inheritance, such as we know them to be, must upon an average bring us just then? |
4351 | When you put before the mass of mankind the question,"Will you be governed by a king, or will you be governed by a constitution?" |
4351 | Who could expect such a people to comprehend the new and strange events of foreign places? |
4351 | Who is to judge? |
4351 | Whom, then, can you punish-- whom can you abolish-- when your taxes run short? |
4351 | Why are we not in the Commons where we could have so much more power? |
4351 | Why do we not fear that she would do this, or any approach to it? |
4351 | Why is this nominal rank given us, at the price of substantial influence? |
4351 | Why should he work? |
4351 | Why should not the rest of our administration be as good if we did but apply the same method to it? |
4351 | Why, according to popular belief is it rather characterised by the very contrary? |
4351 | Will it be more effectual under the royal sort of Ministerial Government, or will it be less effectual? |
4351 | Will that moderation be aided or impaired by the addition of a sovereign? |
4351 | but the fundamental-- almost unasked question-- how the House of Commons comes to be able to govern at all? |
4351 | how can we heartily obey one who is but a foreigner with the accident of an identical language?" |
4351 | how can we trust one who lives by the fluctuating favour of a distant authority? |
4351 | how is it possible, that a man longing to get back to the antipodes can care for England? |
4351 | in the Bill to regulate Cotton Factories?" |
4351 | so the new Minister says to the permanent under- secretary,"Could you not suggest a middle course? |
4351 | the inquiry comes out thus--"Will you be governed in a way you understand, or will you be governed in a way you do not understand?" |
42179 | ''Is the power of victorious rebels and usurpers from God? 42179 Being there is but one safe way to salvation, do you think that the protestant way is that way, or is it not? |
42179 | What,said Cromwell,"if a man should take upon him to be king?" |
42179 | Why should he have law himself? |
42179 | Why,rejoined the other,"do you think so?" |
42179 | 478) that"none had the courage, how loyal soever their wishes were, to mention his majesty?" |
42179 | And why did they so, but that any trackless wilderness seemed better than his own or his friend''s tyranny? |
42179 | But can you tell when these Ifs will meet, or be brought together? |
42179 | But does he mean that the house would not have passed a vote against ship- money? |
42179 | But is it fair to say that the royalists were contending to set up an unlimited authority? |
42179 | But on what grounds did his English friends, nay some of the presbyterians themselves, advise his submission to the dictates of that party? |
42179 | But what can you think of Thorough when there shall be such slips in business of consequence? |
42179 | But why did he publish such a proclamation? |
42179 | By what manner of proceedings should they act?" |
42179 | Can you, in your conscience, give them leave to go on in that course in which, in your conscience, you think you could not be saved?" |
42179 | Did Oliver Cromwell receive his power from God? |
42179 | Do we cast on the Crown lawyers the reproach of having betrayed their country''s liberties? |
42179 | Do we revolt from the severities of the star- chamber? |
42179 | Do we think the administration of Charles during the interval of parliaments rash and violent? |
42179 | Does this look as if he had been reckoned one of them? |
42179 | Fleetwood then asked me,''If I would be willing to go myself upon this employment?'' |
42179 | He admits, indeed, as does Harris, that the book was violent; but what can be said of the punishment? |
42179 | He had merely said, on a proposition to adjourn,"Why should we not adjourn for six months?" |
42179 | If it be not, why do you live in it? |
42179 | If it be, how can you find in your heart to give your subjects liberty to go another way? |
42179 | If this was blamable in 1679, how much more in 1681? |
42179 | In a dialogue, entitled"Ignoramus Vindicated,"it is asked, why were Dr. Oates and others believed against the papists? |
42179 | Ludlow argued against him; but what was argument to such a head? |
42179 | Now I pray, with so many and such Ifs as these, what may not be done, and in a brave and noble way? |
42179 | Then he asked the speaker if they were here, or where they were? |
42179 | To what sort of victory therefore did he look? |
42179 | What matters should they be judges of? |
42179 | What then was the discontent that must have ensued upon the restoration of Charles II.? |
42179 | What trust could be reposed in a prince capable of forfeiting so solemn a pledge? |
42179 | Whence, in fact, was he to look for assistance? |
42179 | said St. John, in arguing the bill of attainder before the peers,"who would not that others should have any? |
34856 | After all, is not a woman''s life, is not her health, are not her limbs more valuable than panes of glass? 34856 But you do not confine the case to the latter way of putting it?" |
34856 | Did Mr. Asquith return no message, no kind of reply? |
34856 | Did Mr. Horace Smith tell you in sentencing you that he was doing what he had been told to do? |
34856 | Did you instruct Mr. Horace Smith to decide against Miss Brackenbury, and to send her to prison for six weeks? |
34856 | Everything? |
34856 | Has Mr. Asquith received my letter? |
34856 | How do I know? |
34856 | How do you know? |
34856 | I think, Mrs. Pankhurst, you now understand the way it is put? |
34856 | Is it not a fact,asked Christabel,"that you yourself have set us an example of revolt?" |
34856 | Not in the Welsh graveyard case? |
34856 | Poor souls,I thought, and then I said suddenly,"Are none of you_ men_?" |
34856 | The doctor would think, as I should think if I saw a woman lying there,''What has been this woman''s offence?'' 34856 Then why do n''t you do something to give votes to women?" |
34856 | What about next year? |
34856 | What happened, father? |
34856 | What is the other? |
34856 | You did not tell them to break down a wall and disinter a body? |
34856 | And what right had I to step in and ruin the good impression they had made? |
34856 | As soon as order was restored Christabel stood up and repeated the question:"Will the Liberal Government, if returned, give votes to women?" |
34856 | At this there were cries of"Where to?" |
34856 | Autocratic? |
34856 | But Mr. Lloyd- George evaded this by the counter query:"Why do n''t they go for their enemies? |
34856 | But what good did that do the cause? |
34856 | Can you throw the first stone? |
34856 | Did they think that any doctor would go on with such action, or that we should be able to retain medical men under such conditions in our service? |
34856 | Do you wonder that we gained new members at every meeting we held? |
34856 | Does justice gain? |
34856 | Does not Mr. Asquith think that women should have the right to control their children''s education, as men do, through the vote?" |
34856 | Have you the right to judge women? |
34856 | How can she save? |
34856 | I said to the inspector:"Shall I have to do it again?" |
34856 | I say the right was destroyed, for of how much value is a petition which can not be presented in person? |
34856 | In almost every one of my American meetings I was asked the question,"What good do you expect to accomplish by interrupting meetings?" |
34856 | Is it possible that the time- honoured, almost sacred English privilege of interrupting is unknown in America? |
34856 | Is there anything more marvellous in modern times than the kind of spontaneous outburst in every country of this woman''s movement? |
34856 | It had been urged, said he, that this bill was better than none at all, but why should that be the alternative? |
34856 | May I just try to make you feel what it is that has made this movement the gigantic size it is from the very small beginnings it had? |
34856 | Now why have they not put the Union in the dock? |
34856 | Said the clerk:"Do you find Mrs. Pankhurst guilty or not guilty?" |
34856 | Shall us have the vote? |
34856 | She quoted Lord Morley as saying of the Indian unrest:"''We are in India in the presence of a living movement, and a movement for what? |
34856 | The inspector, whom I knew personally, stepped forward and demanded officially,"Are you Mrs. Pankhurst, and is this your deputation?" |
34856 | Then Annie Kenney arose and asked:"If the Liberal party is returned to power, will they take steps to give votes for women?" |
34856 | There is no doubt of that, but most important of all, does not the breaking of glass produce more effect upon the Government? |
34856 | They wrote:"Will the Liberal Government give votes to working- women? |
34856 | Was there, I reflected, any difference between trying for the vote and getting it? |
34856 | We could not believe him, and when, two months later, I was asked in America:"When will English women vote?" |
34856 | We threw away all our conventional notions of what was"ladylike"and"good form,"and we applied to our methods the one test question, Will it help? |
34856 | What answer do you think Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman made us? |
34856 | What became of those girls, and what became of their hapless infants? |
34856 | What can be gained? |
34856 | What do we find? |
34856 | What does all this mean? |
34856 | What good did it do? |
34856 | What is the good of a country like ours? |
34856 | What is the obvious lesson to be drawn? |
34856 | What words could have breathed a prouder defiance, a more implacable resolve? |
34856 | When the remnants of the armies return, when the commerce of Europe is resumed by men, will they forget the part the women so nobly played? |
34856 | When we made the inquiry,"Are all our women now transferred to the first division?" |
34856 | Who asked me to say anything? |
34856 | Why do n''t they go for their greatest enemy?" |
34856 | Why not? |
34856 | Why should women go to Parliament Square and be battered about and insulted, and most important of all, produce less effect than when we throw stones? |
34856 | Why? |
34856 | Will Sir Charles M''Laren tell us if any member is preparing to introduce a bill for women''s suffrage? |
34856 | Will he tell us what he and the other members will pledge themselves to_ do_ for the reform they so warmly endorse?" |
34856 | Would n''t I please have a meeting especially for them? |
17294 | ( 2) what is the setting of the economic problem to- day, and( 3) what is to be our policy for the future? |
17294 | A CHECK UPON BUREAUCRACY How can this growth of inadequately controlled official power be checked? |
17294 | A GROUP OF NEW ARMIES Well, how do we stand in regard to that to- day? |
17294 | Again, did we ever desire a Balance of Power in Africa, America, or Asia? |
17294 | And what does the race for armaments result in but in war? |
17294 | And what is the point of the present advocacy of the Balance of Power by those who think themselves neither visionaries nor blind? |
17294 | BALANCE OR LEAGUE? |
17294 | But how can the investor know where it should go when the true financial condition of great industrial companies is a matter of guesswork? |
17294 | But is it not plain that it could not be justly carried out? |
17294 | But what is the upshot? |
17294 | Can we compete with other industrial countries of the world? |
17294 | Did we ever want a Balance of Power at sea? |
17294 | Does it mean co- partnership, profit- sharing, co- operative societies, joint committees, national wages boards, guild socialism, nationalisation? |
17294 | First and foremost, do we mean the needs of the individual worker or of a family, and if of the latter, how large a family? |
17294 | First of all, why do men vaguely feel that the House of Commons is unrepresentative? |
17294 | For this purpose we need to consider( 1) what have we done in that direction in the past? |
17294 | How are we going to apply it? |
17294 | How can they do this if they do not know the facts of production? |
17294 | How can we help on this work? |
17294 | How far have Trade Boards actually succeeded in fixing such a minimum? |
17294 | How is that goodwill to be gained? |
17294 | How is the State to acquire them? |
17294 | How is this ultimate responsibility to be met? |
17294 | How then are we to cope with this problem of retaining our economic position? |
17294 | How then stands the argument from the fluctuations of the exchanges? |
17294 | If it was alleviated, to what was the alleviation due? |
17294 | If the standard wage must provide for a family, what must be the size of the family? |
17294 | Is British supremacy what we mean by a Balance of Power? |
17294 | Is it because of any monopoly or community or balance of power? |
17294 | Is it possible to improve upon the present working of this machinery? |
17294 | Is it the Prime Minister, or the Cabinet, or Parliament, or the Civil Service? |
17294 | Is there any reason why we Liberals should not begin by boldly adopting, in our own case, this plainly Liberal policy? |
17294 | Is there anything else?" |
17294 | Is there no danger that this machine will mould the minds of some other peoples, just as the German machine moulded the minds of the Germans? |
17294 | Mr. McNair said:--Need I labour the point that there_ is_ a problem of the Mines? |
17294 | Now what will that equipoise produce? |
17294 | Now, did our believers in the Balance of Power ever wish to see power balanced anywhere else than on the continent of Europe? |
17294 | STATE OWNERSHIP: FOR AND AGAINST What policy in the political field can be adopted to further these objects? |
17294 | She had a right to expect in return generous treatment; but what did she get? |
17294 | THE CAPITAL LEVY If we can not look forward to any great measure of relief through these channels, to what then must we look? |
17294 | THE PRESENT MACHINERY OF RELIEF At present what is the situation? |
17294 | THE TWO CAUSES OF UNREST What is the conclusion of what I have tried to say to you? |
17294 | That being the case, what has been done in the last few years to remedy this matter, and why is more not being done? |
17294 | The minerals or royalties being acquired by the State, what then? |
17294 | There being now no legal or patriotic call to intensive production, we are driven back to ask,"Does intensive production pay?" |
17294 | Was that a baseless slander? |
17294 | Well, how is it secured? |
17294 | What about the economic position? |
17294 | What are the facts? |
17294 | What are the prospects of the two methods that I have mentioned coming to our rescue in this"long distance"problem? |
17294 | What are the root causes which bring every period of active trade to an inevitable end? |
17294 | What are these"C"Bonds? |
17294 | What happened to that as a burden during the 100 years just gone by? |
17294 | What indeed was it but this even balance and consequent fear which produced the race for armaments? |
17294 | What is a perfect balance between two opposing weights or forces? |
17294 | What is it that is wrong? |
17294 | What is the remedy? |
17294 | What is the total amount annually paid in coal royalties? |
17294 | What more is wanted? |
17294 | What was the result? |
17294 | What was the result? |
17294 | What, in these circumstances, does M. Poincarà © propose? |
17294 | Who could define or enumerate the"functions"that are to be represented? |
17294 | Who is it that ordains that, say, a million men shall work in the coal- mines, and 600,000 on the railways, and 200,000 in the shipyards, and so on? |
17294 | Why has the House of Commons lost the confidence of the nation? |
17294 | Why has this representation of economic interests become so strong? |
17294 | Why is course(_ b_) recommended? |
17294 | Why then is it secure? |
17294 | Without a levy what kind of position can you look forward to? |
15086 | Excessive? |
15086 | Inadequate? |
15086 | ( 2) Who pays for the machinery of Land Purchase, and what is the security for the money advanced? |
15086 | 3 of their Terms of Reference-- namely,"What is the Imperial expenditure to which Ireland should equitably contribute?" |
15086 | Am I weakening the case for democracy itself in pressing this view? |
15086 | And what would be the further consequence? |
15086 | Are the phenomena I have reviewed arguments for Home Rule or against Home Rule? |
15086 | Are we to be told now by Unionists that the Union must be maintained in order to maintain this subsidy? |
15086 | But how, on its merits, and apart from the question of taxation, could such an excess be justified? |
15086 | But what light can Estate Duty throw on( for example) the dividends collected at the source from British or foreign securities held by Irish banks? |
15086 | CHAPTER IX IRELAND TO- DAY Why does present- day Ireland need Home Rule? |
15086 | Can anyone wonder that public opinion in Ireland was instinctively against that war? |
15086 | Can we be surprised that they, a rude, backward race, failed under the test where we ourselves, with far less justification, had failed so often? |
15086 | Did Durham advocate Canadian Home Rule because Canada was"so far"? |
15086 | Did the proof of the error in Canada induce Englishmen to question the soundness of the precedent on which the error was based? |
15086 | Do not the conclusions set forth above bear upon them the stamp of common sense? |
15086 | Do they tend to show that Ireland is"fitter"now for Home Rule, or that she manages very well without Home Rule? |
15086 | Does it necessarily follow that Ireland should be given power to construct her own Navy, and raise and control her own troops? |
15086 | Does not she become a convex mirror, in which, swollen to unnatural proportions, the mistakes of two centuries are reflected? |
15086 | Ethics and honour apart, where was the common sense of the legislative Union? |
15086 | FEDERAL OR COLONIAL HOME RULE? |
15086 | For example, Is the upkeep of the Lord- Lieutenant an Irish or an Imperial charge? |
15086 | Has Ireland anything to gain by separation? |
15086 | Has merit its reward? |
15086 | Has she anything to lose? |
15086 | How are we to deal with it? |
15086 | How could Ireland frame a financial policy? |
15086 | How did this come about? |
15086 | How do they explain away the support for that policy in the Dominions? |
15086 | How do they reconcile them with opposition to Home Rule for Ireland? |
15086 | How exactly do we stand at the present moment? |
15086 | How, on the other hand, stands the argument of Lord Farrer and Mr. Currie? |
15086 | If Ireland is disorderly and retrograde, how can she deserve freedom? |
15086 | If and in so far as the Upper Chamber is elective, should election be direct or indirect? |
15086 | If so, was it to be left as a separate unit, or was it to be amalgamated in a Union with its neighbour, Upper Canada? |
15086 | In what provision of the coming Bill will the difference between Federal Home Rule and Colonial Home Rule arise? |
15086 | Is it a public opinion derived from the vital contact of ideas and interests, and taking shape in a healthy and normal distribution of parties? |
15086 | Is it strange that the Colonies themselves regard such logic, when applied to Ireland, as perverted and absurd? |
15086 | Is it that the British minority, being so very small, is more liable to oppression by the Dutch? |
15086 | Is there any unity of national purpose, transcending party divisions? |
15086 | Is thought free? |
15086 | Morality aside, is that common sense? |
15086 | More pertinent question still, what are the conditions which will inevitably be imposed in exchange? |
15086 | Nevertheless, the problem before us is one of devolution pure and simple, and the question is, how far is devolution to go? |
15086 | Now, how much more will be required? |
15086 | Now, what was the"people"in the minds of the Volunteers? |
15086 | Now, where do we stand? |
15086 | Once admit the principle of restitution, and where are you to stop? |
15086 | Quebec Home Rule or Dominion Home Rule? |
15086 | Should they have used force, even under the threat of Burgoyne''s guns? |
15086 | Strange, is it not, that such a movement should have to emphasize the fact? |
15086 | Take the Imperial argument, shaken to its foundations by subsequent events, from the case he stated in 1893, and what remains? |
15086 | To be held by Lord- Lieutenant To be held by Lord- Lieutenant,( acting normally on the advice_ acting on advice of Irish of Irish Cabinet? |
15086 | Two further questions remain to be considered:( 1) Can we assume that in the future purchase will proceed smoothly? |
15086 | Was French or Lower Canada, with its small minority of British, to be given representative Government at all? |
15086 | Was it because Ireland, unlike Canada, was"so near"? |
15086 | Was it respectable for armed men to dictate to a Parliament, however just their cause? |
15086 | Was it to be the policy of the Duke of Wellington or of the Earl of Durham, of Fitzgibbon or the Volunteers? |
15086 | Were they to trust or suspect, to admit or to exclude from full political rights, the new- comers? |
15086 | What are the objections to Irish control over Purchase, with its corollary, Irish payment of the running costs of Purchase? |
15086 | What are the objections to giving Ireland, like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, control over her own Customs? |
15086 | What are the objections? |
15086 | What are to be the relations between the subordinate Irish Parliament and Government, and the Imperial Parliament and Government? |
15086 | What do these terms really mean? |
15086 | What form should that contribution eventually take? |
15086 | What has taken its place? |
15086 | What is the really practical significance of Ireland''s proximity to England? |
15086 | What is the ruling power within Ireland? |
15086 | What is the train of reasoning in this strange specimen of political argument? |
15086 | What is to be the framework of Home Rule? |
15086 | What prevented unity? |
15086 | What question? |
15086 | What rational or scientific limit can be set to it? |
15086 | What was its corollary? |
15086 | What was the remedy? |
15086 | What was the ultimate cause of this glaring divergency? |
15086 | What would Mr. Arthur Balfour himself have prophesied with certainty in the case of any other country but Ireland? |
15086 | What would have happened in any Colony? |
15086 | What would one expect to happen? |
15086 | What, in the Colonies, Ireland, and everywhere else, is the deep spiritual impulse behind the desire for Home Rule? |
15086 | Where are the dangers and difficulties of exclusion? |
15086 | Where is our common sense? |
15086 | Where is the crux of the problem? |
15086 | Where is the wisdom in selecting direct taxation as peculiarly suitable to Irish control? |
15086 | Whichever course was taken, what was to be the relation between the Home Government and Canada? |
15086 | Why foster a spirit of undying enmity among a people disposed to dwell together in harmony? |
15086 | Why less urgent? |
15086 | Why subject the Colony to the dissensions of party? |
15086 | Why? |
15086 | Will it be good for Ireland? |
15086 | Will they profit by it? |
15086 | Would Mr. Chamberlain recast his argument now? |
15086 | Would it have been possible to design a system better calculated to embitter, impoverish, and demoralize a valuable portion of the Empire? |
15086 | Would she naturally be inclined to increase direct taxation? |
15086 | [ 4] Why is this? |
15086 | [ 53] But why in the world should the British party pendulum determine an important Irish matter like this? |
18419 | If,he inquires,"you tax the unearned increment on land, why do n''t you tax the unearned increment from a large block of stocks? |
18419 | A toll of what? |
18419 | Although it is no doubt a very good answer, when the direct question is raised,--What are your notions? |
18419 | And by what other Government will it be replaced? |
18419 | And for what object was this fund to be accumulated? |
18419 | And is the Licensing Bill not well worth a good blow struck, and struck now, while the iron is hot? |
18419 | And upon what objects and policies do we propose to spend the extra revenue which this Budget will unquestionably yield in future years? |
18419 | And what is the consequence? |
18419 | And what is the result? |
18419 | Are they crying out? |
18419 | Are they even a sieve, a strainer, to stop legislation if it should reveal an undue or undesirable degree of Radicalism or Socialism? |
18419 | Are they indignant? |
18419 | Are they not being demoralised? |
18419 | Are they not being exploited? |
18419 | Are they not being thrown away? |
18419 | Are they not tremendous too? |
18419 | Are they the complementary critic-- the critic who sees all the things which the ordinary man does not see? |
18419 | At Birmingham, the Prime Minister asked him in so many words: What alternative did he propose to the Budget? |
18419 | At those two elections, what was the salient fact? |
18419 | But how are we to apply that principle? |
18419 | But the House of Commons asks itself when it has to choose between taxes on various forms of wealth,"By what process was it got?" |
18419 | But we are asked:"Why stop here? |
18419 | But what did the Leader of the Opposition promise? |
18419 | But what do you see at the present time? |
18419 | But what does Mr. Austen Chamberlain say? |
18419 | But what effective provision have they made against old age in the past? |
18419 | But, if we have been powerful in the past, shall we then be powerless in the future? |
18419 | Did they do anything to try to reduce or control the expenditure of that great departure? |
18419 | Did you earn it by yourself, or has it just been left you by others? |
18419 | Do Trade Unionists desire the downfall of the existing Liberal Government? |
18419 | Do we not see that they are ever exerting themselves to urge still greater expenditure upon the nation? |
18419 | Do you see what that means? |
18419 | Do you wish to send that message to the House of Lords? |
18419 | Does that really represent the complete economic and natural demand for the amount of land a population of that size requires to live on? |
18419 | Every concession that could be conceived was made, but to what purpose? |
18419 | For what objects? |
18419 | Formerly the only question of the tax- gatherer was,"How much have you got?" |
18419 | Forward or Back? |
18419 | Had he no word for his old friends? |
18419 | Had he no word for those who were once proud to follow him, and who now use in regard to him only the language of regret? |
18419 | Has he considered the relation of miners''wages to the selling prices of coal? |
18419 | Has it ever been right in any of the great settled controversies which are now beyond the reach of Party argument? |
18419 | Has the House of Lords ever been right? |
18419 | Have they any right to complain of the taxes which are necessary for the maintenance of our naval power? |
18419 | Have we not a right to claim the support of the Trade Unionists who are associated with the miners? |
18419 | How are you to subdivide these magisterial districts for the purpose of allocating members? |
18419 | How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? |
18419 | How have foreign countries stood the late depression in trade? |
18419 | How many will there be in ten years''time? |
18419 | How much difference is there between Parties in this House as to time? |
18419 | How much of them would even be repelled by Cobden? |
18419 | How shall this imposing fabric of industrial security be reared and made safe? |
18419 | How stands the case of the Trade Unionists? |
18419 | I ask the House what does such a safeguard as the House of Lords mean? |
18419 | I do not doubt that all this talk of the rejection of the Budget is injurious to business, to credit, and to enterprise; but who is to blame for that? |
18419 | I say,"Why not?" |
18419 | I shall be asked, What about all this foreign investment that is going on? |
18419 | In other words, the State in future will increasingly ask the taxpayer not only"What have you got?" |
18419 | Is it a safeguard at all? |
18419 | Is it a vote of censure on the Government at all? |
18419 | Is it because of the British Constitution that life and property are secure? |
18419 | Is it because of the House of Lords, that life and property are secure? |
18419 | Is it because of the repressive laws which we impose? |
18419 | Is it not a cry of petulant vexation at the natural, ordinary, long- expected sequence of events? |
18419 | Is it not an extraordinary thing that upon the Budget we should even be discussing at all the action of the House of Lords? |
18419 | Is it not really a vote of censure on the general election? |
18419 | Is it wonderful that we should refuse to turn our eyes away from that? |
18419 | Is not British credit now being diverted abroad to foreign countries, to the detriment of our own country? |
18419 | Is that tariff before us now? |
18419 | Is that the only demand of the people of Glasgow for land? |
18419 | Is that the work to which you will put your precious franchises-- your votes, which have been won for you by so much struggle in the past? |
18419 | Is that the work you want to do, men of Dundee? |
18419 | Is that their contention? |
18419 | Is the House of Lords even a security for property? |
18419 | Member for West Birmingham, or do they abandon him? |
18419 | Member,''a reckless and foolhardy experiment''"? |
18419 | Men who have gone on even at the cost of their lives-- had he no word for them? |
18419 | Now there is the issue on which the future of this Parliament hangs--"Forward or back?" |
18419 | Now who has a right-- this is my first question-- to reproach us for that? |
18419 | Now, is there one of all these subjects which does not command the support of Trade Unionists and responsible Labour leaders? |
18419 | Of a half? |
18419 | Of a quarter? |
18419 | Of the whole? |
18419 | On what foundation do they seek to build? |
18419 | On what ground could we refuse that equal treatment of the Orange River Colony? |
18419 | On what ground then did they pass that Bill, if it was not the ground of political opportunism and partisanship? |
18419 | Peace is agreed on, and what happens? |
18419 | Some will have two, some three, some a number of members; and on what system will you allocate the members to these divisions? |
18419 | That is perfectly true, but is that a reason for condemning the Budget? |
18419 | The decisive question is this-- will the British working classes embrace the opportunities which will shortly be offered to them? |
18419 | To begin with, it is impossible to drive the greater part of our capital out of this country, for what is the capital of the country? |
18419 | To what trades ought we, as a beginning, to apply this system of compulsory contributory unemployment insurance? |
18419 | Was it gained by supplying the capital which industry needs, or by denying, except at an extortionate price, the land which industry requires? |
18419 | Was it gained by the enterprise and capacity necessary to found a business, or merely by squeezing and bleeding the owner and founder of the business? |
18419 | Was it gained from opening new minerals to the service of man, or by drawing a mining royalty from the toil and adventure of others? |
18419 | Was it right in 1880, when it rejected the Compensation for Disturbance Bill? |
18419 | Was it right in delaying Catholic emancipation and the removal of Jewish disabilities? |
18419 | Was it right in driving this country to the verge of revolution in its effort to defeat the passage of reform? |
18419 | Was it right in endeavouring to prevent the abolition of purchase in the Army? |
18419 | Was it right in resisting the Ballot Bill? |
18419 | Was it right in the almost innumerable efforts it made to prevent this House dealing with the purity of its own electoral machinery? |
18419 | We do not only ask to- day,"How much have you got?" |
18419 | We have heard many prophecies, but what has been the history of the coal trade? |
18419 | Well, but what have the Conservative Party got to say about it? |
18419 | Well, what is the proposal? |
18419 | What about Insurance, Labour Exchanges, and economic development?" |
18419 | What about mining royalties? |
18419 | What are the facts about agricultural land? |
18419 | What are the facts? |
18419 | What are the reasons for this demand? |
18419 | What are the reasons which have been advanced against the issue of a Constitution to the Orange River Colony? |
18419 | What did he mean by Tariff Reform? |
18419 | What do we say? |
18419 | What does preference mean? |
18419 | What is it they are doing at Westminster? |
18419 | What is the Government doing at present, and what has it done in its brief existence? |
18419 | What is the destiny of our country to be? |
18419 | What is the explanation? |
18419 | What is the political situation which unfolds itself to our reflections to- night? |
18419 | What is the position disclosed by the argument? |
18419 | What is the position in which we find ourselves? |
18419 | What is the position of the Conservative Party when they attempt to defend the House of Lords? |
18419 | What is the problem of the hour? |
18419 | What is the third? |
18419 | What is there in these pages repugnant to writers of the type of John Mill, Jevons, and Marshall? |
18419 | What is your counsel? |
18419 | What of the House of Lords? |
18419 | What of the future? |
18419 | What safeguard can such a Second Chamber be to the commercial interests of this country? |
18419 | What steps do they suggest that the people should take in order to assert their wishes? |
18419 | What steps do they suggest that we should take in order to bring home to them the earnestness of our plea? |
18419 | When did we ever hear of a Budget being rejected by the Lords before? |
18419 | When the Old- Age Pensions Bill was before the House of Commons, what was the attitude of the Conservative Party? |
18419 | Where do we stand to- day at the end of our fourth year of office? |
18419 | Who ever said we would stop here? |
18419 | Who has the right to speak for Labour? |
18419 | Why ca n''t they let well alone? |
18419 | Why change now? |
18419 | Why do I bring these facts before the Committee? |
18419 | Why do n''t your arguments apply elsewhere?" |
18419 | Why is it that life and property are more secure in Britain than in any other country in the world? |
18419 | Why is it that our credit is so high and that our commerce stretches so far? |
18419 | Why should we make a bargain with the House of Lords? |
18419 | Why should you give it to the Orange River Colony too?" |
18419 | Why stop here? |
18419 | Why will he not answer these simple questions? |
18419 | Why, even in this Conference, what has been the one subject on which we have differed sharply? |
18419 | Why, what would happen, if this present Government were to perish? |
18419 | Would not the ending of such a system involve a much greater disturbance than to amend the functions of the House of Lords? |
18419 | You will perhaps say to me that may be all very well, but are you sure that the rich and the very rich are not being burdened too heavily? |
18419 | [ An honourable Member: What about Home Rule?] |
18419 | and what was his counsel to the House of Lords? |
18419 | but"How did you get it?" |
18419 | gentleman of it often; but why should cheapness of production always be achieved at the expense of the human factor? |
18419 | gentleman? |
18419 | we also ask,"How did you get it? |