A Prince of Sinners

e huge canopy of dripping umbrellas, heard for the first time for many years a bold and vigorous attack upon the principles

emselves and others into a sense of false security as to the well-being of the country by means of illusive statistics. In his appreciation of dramatic effect, and the small means by which an audience can be touched, Henslow

so rotten and insecure a position. There isn't a flourishing industry in the country, save those which provide the munitions of war, and their prosperity is a spasmodic, and I might almost add, an undesirable thing. Now, I am dealing with facts to-night, not theories, and I am going to quote certain unassailable truths, and I am going to give you the immediate causes for them. The furniture and joinery trade of England is bad. There are thousands of good hands out of employment. They are out of work because the manufacturer has few or no orders. I want the immediate cause for that, and I go to the manufacturer. I ask him why he has no orders. He tells me, because every steamer from America is bringing huge consignments of ready-made office and general furniture, at such prices or such quality that the English shopkeepers prefer to stock them. Consequently

boot manufacturer puts it, and prevents their having money to spend. I am going to t

crease of exports and relative increase of imports. How could we hope to retain our accumulated wealth u

find myself there, that a Royal Commission be immediately appointed to deal with this matter. And I propose, further, to insist that this Commission be composed of manufacturers and business men, and that we dispense with all figure-heads, and I can promise you this, that the first question which shall engage the attention of these men shall be an immediate revision of our tariffs. We won't have men with theories which work out beautifully on paper, and bring a great country into the throes of commercial ruin. We won't have men who think that the laws their fathers made are good enough for them, and that all change is dangerous, because Englishmen ar

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ion. The general impression was, this election was now assured. A shouting multitude followed him to his hotel, popular Sentiment was touched, an

not be properly gauged until after it had stood the test of print. But on the whole comment was strikingly optimistic. Brooks for some time was abse

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exation. "She must go and sit somewhere. I shan't be ready yet. H

d better allow me to take Miss Scott

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her away from the centre of the town to a quiet walk heading to the suburb where she lived. Here the streets seemed strangely silent, and B

your place just now is amongst them, and I shall no

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