John Bright

Name: The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years
Author: John Bright

The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

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“The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years”, published in 1885, is a work by John Bright. It explores elements such as the Liberal Party, Parliament and Tories.

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ Now almost every Labourer can have an admirable newspaper weekly for a penny, or every day one somewhat smaller in size, but not less admirable in quality, for a halfpenny. Newspapers, not so large and not so good as these, cost sevenpence when the Liberal Party began to deal with this question. The taxes on paper, and on the printed newspaper, strangled the Press, and the tax on advertisements was as great when a gardener sought a situation and employment as when a rich man advertised a mansion or an estate. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ Farm Labourers’ wages have risen one-half or more, and in some counties they have nearly doubled since the days of Protection and the Corn Law.
But the Liberal Party has done more than give the mass of our people a real representation and a real power in Parliament. It has done more than give them freedom for their industry. It has given them the means to understand what Parliament is doing, and what it ought to do, for it has given them the vast advantage of a Free Press, and to their children the not less vast advantage of cheap and good Schools. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ Last year the Bill giving Household Suffrage in the Counties became law, notwithstanding all the efforts of the Tories to obstruct it.
The Liberal Party gave to all Voters the protection of the Ballot, which the Tory Party strongly opposed. Every Voter is now able to vote as he wishes. No Landlord, or Farmer or Employer of any kind can know how any vote is given—and now the poorest man is as safe in giving his vote as the richest. This is a great safeguard for the Voter. The Bill for the re-arrangement of seats now before Parliament is the work of the Liberal Party. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ Parliament may accept the principle that the creatures which live on and from the land, are the property, if there be any property in them, of the Farmer, at whose cost, and by whose labour, the farm is cultivated. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ Great estates lead to great farms, and great farms lead to the result that it is almost impossible for Farm Labourers to become Farmers, and thus the path of the intelligent and hard-working Labourer to an improved position and condition for himself and his family is barred and blocked. The holding of great estates under Entails and Settlements, and often heavily mortgaged and burdened, makes it impossible for them to be well cultivated, and thus the demand for labour is lessened, and a better rate of wages is prevented. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ What will Household Suffrage in Counties and the new arrangement of Seats do for the new Voters, and especially for the Farm Labourers? If the new Voters know their interests, and if the Liberals are returned in great power to the new Parliament, two things will have a chance of being done. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ The child of the Labourer may gain an education that will give him as good a prospect, as regards labour and trade, as the child of a richer man has. He will grow up with a sense of self-respect; he will see before him a path along which he may find independence and comfort. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ The new Voters who are not young will remember the price of Bread in former days; they will know that Sugar is about one-third of the price it once was, and that they now can buy three pounds for the price they formerly paid for one pound; and they know that Tea costs less now than the tax alone which was imposed upon it before the Free-traders began the reform in our tariff and the repeal of duties on imports from foreign countries. And during these years there has been a general and large rise in the wages of Working-men and Labourers in all parts of the country. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ If the new Voters will help the Liberal Party, the Liberal Landowners, the Liberal Farmers, the Liberal Shopkeepers and Tradesmen, in the towns and villages of the Counties and County Divisions, we may see much good done by a new Parliament. ”

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John Bright, The Work of the Liberal Party during the Last Fifty Years (1885)

“ The Corn Law, by shutting out foreign corn, was intended to keep the price of wheat at, or near, 80 shillings the quarter: its natural price without Corn Law is probably about 40 shillings the quarter. ”

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