Anonymous, Who are Insulting the Working Classes… (1879)
“ Now I feel indignant, terribly indignant, that we working men should be insulted, grossly insulted, in this kind of manner. We are being treated as fools. We are thought to be so ignorant that we cannot read and judge for ourselves, and that we shall swallow all these abusive and false utterances as if they were Gospel truth. We are told that the Conservative policy is, and has ever been, a policy of war. ”
Anonymous, Who are Insulting the Working Classes… (1879)
“ Here again are we working men being insulted by the same wild statements and extravagant abuse. Are we weak enough to know no better than to believe that the Conservative Government has caused depression in trade? Do not we know well enough that a considerable amount of our trade has gone to other countries, and what has the present Government to do with that? Do we not know that much misery and depression have been caused by commercial speculation—and what has the Conservative Government to do with that? ”
Anonymous, Who are Insulting the Working Classes… (1879)
“ I read an immense amount of abuse against the Government of the day, heaped up in no stinted measure, and conveyed in language we working men scarcely expect to find used among gentlemen. Now I call myself a Liberal of the old school, and I like to look at public matters from a wide and Liberal point of view, but I am amazed when I read statements that the policy of the present Government is a policy of war; that the long commercial trial and depression of trade are due to the present Government ”
