Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day

Among the many social questions which the pressure of circumstances may soon make political is that of the State regulation of the hours of labour. The president of the Trades U...

After spurning for many years the Liberal demand for the abolition of the custom of primogeniture--by which the land of a man dying without a will passes to the eldest son, to t...

A spurious independence is another hindrance in the path of progress. Faith without works is occasionally worth commendation in public life; but one must be certain that the fai...

A party formed in the fashion thus projected would be simply a house of cards, carefully built, as such houses usually are, by those who have nothing better to do--pretty to loo...

Liberals, in fact, are prepared substantially to subscribe to the principles laid down more than a century since in the American Declaration of Independence--a document which so...

Another idea upon which it is often sought to provoke war is "regard for the sanctity of treaties." There is an honest sound about this which has caused it to deceive many worth...

The words of Cobden upon the point are as true to-day as when they were uttered. Speaking upon the Budget of 1848, he dwelt upon the inequalities of the Income Tax, which was th...

Just a hundred years later, Parliament thought fit to withdraw from the magistrates--who, at the least, knew something of "the occasion or want of alehouses in the neighbourhood...

The theory that the State is bound to provide work for all was never more concisely put than in the original draft of the French Republican Constitution after the Revolution of...

And, when we come to the facts, we must not forget that a political question is not necessarily unpractical because it cannot be immediately dealt with; for good is accomplished...

A sound Radical of a couple of centuries ago--and though the name Radical had not then been invented, the man Radical was frequently to the fore--put this point in plain words....

Even if such a consideration did not exist, one might hope that England would never repeat the enterprise once attempted against what are now the United States, and try to crush...

And it was not only "His servant Elizabeth" who, among monarchs since the Reformation, has assisted the Houses of the Legislature to pecuniarily aid the Church. Queen Anne surre...

The corn question is the first difficulty, and will long remain so. Wheat, in the autumn of 1887, was selling at 28s. a quarter; on the average it cannot be grown to pay at less...

This suggested single constituency would, of course, resemble the great county and borough constituencies of to-day in having divisions, but it would not be single in the sense...

As a first step to any reform, the creation of hereditary peerages, conferring a power to legislate, ought to be stopped. "The tenth transmitter of a foolish face" ought no long...

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The next plea is that it would interfere with "freedom of contract." Upon the general question of what that freedom is, how far it now exists, and in how large a degree the Stat...

The very reason of a Liberal's existence is that, if there is an abuse in Church or State which argument and agitation can remove, all honest endeavours shall be made to remove...