{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/apr/03/poor-law-ireland-bill", "section": "poor-law-ireland-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No; qualified\"", "preceding_text": "inistration of the Poor Law placed in the hands of the county and borough councils. The Members of the Labour Party, however, did not think that the Bill now under discussion would. by the machinery it set up effect the very desirable reforms about which they were unanimous in all parts of the House; but inasmuch as the right hon. Gentleman on the Treasury Bench had promised legislation next year—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/apr/03/coroners-inquests-bill", "section": "coroners-inquests-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That is their fault.", "preceding_text": "afternoon when, as the last division showed, there were only 867 124 Members in the House. He ought to have added Mr. Speaker, who unfortunately was debarred from taking part in the debates. He had not the slightest doubt that Mr. Speaker would have been on his side if he had been able to take part in the debate. There were 545 Members of the House who did not in the least know what was going on. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/prosecution-for-blasphemy", "section": "prosecution-for-blasphemy", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " not undertaken in respect to matters of religious belief and opinion, but solely in respect to the decencies of public speech in a public place, and the preservation of the public peace. § MR. BOTTOMLEY May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will also direct his attention to certain writings of the right hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of State for India and other fashionable agnostics—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " the condition of Ireland. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer will find it somewhat difficult when he speaks to-night to prove it. I affirm from the information which is public property everywhere, that there has been constant open defiance of the law, and almost daily contempt of the law in Ireland, and that the country in that respect is worse at the present moment than I ever remember it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "ve grown enormously since the time that Ireland was represented as being in an exceptionally peaceful condition. Why does not the right hon. Gentleman try to reply to the powerful and able speech of the hon. Member for Cambridge University last 739 night? That speech was plain, frank, and outspoken, and, I believe, absolutely true. Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer answer that speech if he can. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST laughter.", "preceding_text": "But if the right hon. Gentleman is not satisfied with statements that come from us on this side of the House., what has he to say of the charges of Judges in Ireland? I am very sure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be the last man in this House to impugn the impartiality or to ridicule the gravity of the statements that have been made by the Judges in Ireland in their charges to juries. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers", "preceding_text": "nformed as to the contents of the foreign Press, and from the point of view of poetic justice he would be unanswerable if he caused the Sublime Porte to address a note to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Government calling attention to the notorious and disgraceful conditions of lawless misgovernment agrarian outrage and political brigandage existing in the Hibernian province of the British Empire. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST laughter.", "preceding_text": "whatever the law was enforced. That was not the normal state of things under which human beings lived together, nor was it a very old state of things. On the contrary, this doctrine of the absolute supremacy of the overwhelming force of the law was quite modern. It was a modern and very largely a British invention, and it was one of the great achievements of the Anglo-Saxon genius for Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you join them?\"", "preceding_text": "ed to speeches from hon. Members who held Socialist opinions, who thought there were large classes of people in this country who were labouring under a far worse and more grievous sense of injustice than any of the people affected by the land question in Ireland. They said quite candidly that the present distribution of wealth was a great injustice and amounted to robbery of the poor by the rich. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "Ironical NATIONALIST Cheers.", "preceding_text": "say that the first duty of the Government was to govern. If it found that the existing law was insufficient for the purpose of preservng order, it was bound to utilise all the powers at its disposal in order to effect that initial work. One quotation had been made from the late Lord Salisbury; he would give another. He believed thoroughly in the prescription of \"twenty years resolute government.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": " that it was received with approbation by hon. Gentlemen who sat below the gangway. They also heard from those who were in sympathy with the movement that cattle-driving was not a criminal offence. He would not argue that point, but he did not think that anyone would deny that it was in itself cruel in its 788 action, and that the animals who were subjected to that treatment were injured thereby. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "that certain Judges of his acquaintances—at any rate one Judge—should devote his moral energy to paying his hotel bills. I OPPOSITION cries of \"Order.\" He hoped hon. Gentlemen above the gangway were not in favour of Judges not paying their hotel bills. He would not bring before the House the natural history of Judges in Ireland in their ascent To the Bench. But how were Irish Judges manufactured? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "NATIONALIST cries of: It is a quotation from Mr. Gladstone.", "preceding_text": "ent by reading a 808 passage from the speech of a distinguished statesman, Mr. Gladstone, speaking in December, 1889, said— The Attorney-General has been rewarded for his jury-packing in Ireland, and his mode of conducting business by being appointed Lord Chief Justice. MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER Order, order! As I understand that applies to some Judge at present on the bench, and is not in order. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "n, which was only let out for building on the condition that no Nationalist and no Catholic was to occupy a house? What about the political blackmail of the Estates Commissioners, of which the hon. Member for North Armagh was convicted in this House? He did not want to fight those Gentlemen, there however, because they were fighting them in Ulster, and their death warrant had already been signed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "find the result is still more startling. Take the case of agrarian murder. The average number of agrarian murders in the five years 1881–85 was ten. In 1886–90, when the Crimes Act was in force,; it was 4.4. During the years 1906 and, 1907 I am happy to say there was not one single agrarian murder in Ireland; and yet the House has been told Ireland is seething in crime and disorder. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/04", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/04/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "section": "kings-speech-motion-for-an-address", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "r three disagreements, an official connected with the Castle came to me and said he had made a list of the jury panel and that there were thirtynine who were thoroughly reliable. If I had exercised my power as Attorney-General of standing aside all the jurors except those thirty-nine, I could have made sure of a conviction in the case. I do not wish to name the official who gave that information. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why are you afraid of it?", "preceding_text": "anchise, the electoral boundaries, and the hours of polling in one part of the country without regard to the rest of the United Kingdom, and which did not deal with the question of redistribution. So far as he could gather from Mr. Speaker's ruling Clause 5 would be inoperative. He thought he would be able to show to the House that in all probability a great part of the Bill would be inoperative. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why not?", "preceding_text": "(MR. JOHN BURNS, Battersea) I did the same thing with hon. Members' Bills last year and the year before. § Sir F. BANBURY said that that was his point. The Government had taken advantage of the forms of the House which enabled private Members to bring forward Bills on Fridays in order to take 1245 over the Bills and so avoid the difficulties of procedure which might other wise have occurred. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "A LIBERAL MEMBER: Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "brought in on a Government day when the House was full. It was evident to anybody who had been any length of time in the House that this method of procedure was of great ad vantage to the Government, but whether it was of equal advantage to the country was quite another matter. They were told that this Bill would only make a slight alteration, but as a matter of fact it was a disfranchising Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is done already.", "preceding_text": " In order that a ratepayer in different boroughs, if he had a vote in each of them, should not exercise it detrimentally to the county council, it was to be taken away from him in all save one. How could a man's name be \"starred\" under these circumstances? It seemed to him impossible that such a thing could be done, and if it was possible how was notice to be given to a man that he was \"starred?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question.\"", "preceding_text": " supposing every man's vote in the House of Commons were valued by the number of voters in his constituency, the effect would be that the present Government majority would be reduced by 260 which would leave them with a majority of only 94. Therefore he had a right to infer that whenever the Government majority was less than 260 it was really as regarded the will of the people no majority at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "f polling were extended to 10 o'clock, it would be impossible to do the counting the same evening. That would practically mean the loss of two working days. On the day of the election people were kept on tenter hooks, and if the counting were postponed, the following day as a working day would be destroyed. Then the extension of the hours of polling would greatly encourage facilities for bribery. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They will get cheap stout.", "preceding_text": "cally mean the loss of two working days. On the day of the election people were kept on tenter hooks, and if the counting were postponed, the following day as a working day would be destroyed. Then the extension of the hours of polling would greatly encourage facilities for bribery. [Cries of \"Oh!\"] Undoubtedly it would. It was in the evening that there was the greatest danger of treating. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That is done now.", "preceding_text": "tion and half the cost of printing the register, and it was undesirable that a large additional burden should be thrown on the general county rate in connection with the duty of registering lodgers who applied for votes. The cost of canvassing would be enormous, and it would be impossible to foretell what that cost would be, for the officials would have to call on every house over and over again. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Name.\"", "preceding_text": "itical organisations were now willing to spend money in order to get people on the register, why, then, should the ratepayers' money be squandered in paying for what was being done already at the cost of rival political parties? Then, it was proposed to put everybody on the register who was entitled to a vote, whether they wanted it or not. Many people did not want to have the Parliamentary vote. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "yers' money be squandered in paying for what was being done already at the cost of rival political parties? Then, it was proposed to put everybody on the register who was entitled to a vote, whether they wanted it or not. Many people did not want to have the Parliamentary vote. [Cries of \"Name.\"] He had had experience of that himself. He called on an elector last March and when he opened the door—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "Sir F. BANBURY, Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "t would necessarily bring up the whole question of the represenation of minorities, which was a question of not only who was going to vote, but how they were going to vote. He thought it was a great pity to interfere with the question at all, until they were ready to deal with it on broad and comprehensive lines. They had heard about Reform Bills which had been brought in by tottering Governments—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/07/elections-and-registration-london-bill", "section": "elections-and-registration-london-bill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Not for police.", "preceding_text": "he benefit of having all its elections on one day. I was glad to notice that the noble Lord was in favour of that change. I venture to support this Bill, apart from the reasons I have given, because the tendency in London is to unify more and more. Practically London is already one area for municipal purposes, for education, water, police, poor law, and metropolitan asylum purposes, and should be—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/the-royal-commission-on-whisky", "section": "the-royal-commission-on-whisky", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Which \"", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman seen protests in different parts of the country—in the Daily Independent and even from the Irish correspondent of the London Times —and are those who are not interested in this question those who are to be consulted as to the character of the Commission? § MR. JOHN BURNS My information does not altogether tally with that of the hon. Gentleman, for a London paper this morning "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cheers.", "preceding_text": "ly adapted to the needs of our people? What do we find has been justified by experience, and what has been condemned? If we have a convenient and practicable system which is logical, so much the better; but if it be not logical, nevertheless do not sacrifice your own convenience. Let us make sure beyond everything else that the parents get the kind of education which they need for their children. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "if they are to receive Exchequer grants, will have to satisfy all the requirements of the Board of Education. Their standard of education will have to be precisely the same as in the public elementary schools. They will not be allowed to be too small, because efficiency cannot be secured in too small schools. Therefore they will be limited to schools with an average attendance of at least thirty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "may be driven. But what are the reasons why neither this Government, nor, I venture to say, any other Government that held office by the support of the House of Commons, and in accordance with the decision of the electorate, can propose the secular solution? The reasons are two. In the first place, in the existing condition of opinion and sentiment in this country it is an impracticable solution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": " or wrong, but I am confident that the great majority of Members on both sides of the House will agree with me that that does approximately represent what is at present—I do not say it will always continue to be—the dominating sentiment. If you put those two solutions on one side, what is left? I venture to say there is no other solution left but that proposed in the Bill of my right hon. friend. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "tendom has disputed for centuries, and it is reserved for a few gentlemen elected to the London County Council in March last together with a few co-opted members to settle finally. I shall be very curious to hear what the Nonconformists say about that, because they reject a much less important document. The Apostles Creed is rejected by them as a proper statement of undenominational Christianity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the Roman Catholics?", "preceding_text": "ondon by means of trained investigators as to the religious condition of the people. He found a certain amount of religion in what he calls the wealthy classes, and in what he calls the upper middle-classes. Even in the lower middle class there is some \"scattered about.\" That is Mr. Booth's own phrase. But when he came to the working classes he says that they remain outside all religious. bodies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Why not?\".", "preceding_text": "llowed to charge 9d. per scholar in fees. There the popular control ends, because the teachers will be strictly sectarian teachers. Is it supposed that any one of those teachers, or even an assistant or pupil teacher in those schools, when they are I left in the undisturbed control of the Church of England, will be a Noncon-formist. Would they think of putting a Nonconformist into such a position "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "d give them every possible consideration. That is one branch of the Bill, and one which I think will receive careful consideration in the future. There is another point in relation to the teachers. A village school teacher is not to be allowed to teach in the Sunday school, although he may be the fittest man in the parish for the purpose, and the one whom the children know and have confidence in. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: That is a quotation.", "preceding_text": "does not contain a better chance of a compromise which will be successful than any contained in any measure yet proposed to Parliament. At any rate, the compromise is so satisfactory that the Leader of the Opposition has not found any imitator in his denunciations in any subsequent speaker in the debate. The hon. Member for Marylebone talks of Cowper-Temple teaching as a residuum of Christianity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Tests.\"", "preceding_text": "before the appointment of a teacher as to what his creed was, and therefore you might find some one giving Cowper-Temple teaching who did not believe in it. As I understand the Bill, no teacher will be called upon to give 'Cowper-Temple teaching against his will, and if the local authority desires to give that teaching it is perfectly at liberty-to engage for that purpose one educated to give it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_text": "cational rate on denominationalists, a totally different Bill from the first Bill, totally different in its details and in its expression of the will of the people. What happened? The second Bill was dropped after a short Parliamentary career, and it was dropped, I deliberately say it, for one reason only, that it would not admit of being jockeyed in the interests of the Roman Catholic community. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "nformation for the people of Lancashire, who in past years have made great sacrifices for' their voluntary schools. We know what we have to expect from the right hon. Gentleman. We know that he deals with all problems of a perplexing character in a method which has the attraction of simplicity. The right hon. Gentleman appeals from his embarrassed political side to his corrupt judicial side— 1462 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Renewed MINISTERIAL cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "st years have made great sacrifices for' their voluntary schools. We know what we have to expect from the right hon. Gentleman. We know that he deals with all problems of a perplexing character in a method which has the attraction of simplicity. The right hon. Gentleman appeals from his embarrassed political side to his corrupt judicial side— 1462 [Cries of \"Withdraw.\"]—his partial judicial side. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/feb/24", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/feb/24/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "corrupt judicial side— 1462 [Cries of \"Withdraw.\"]—his partial judicial side. [Renewed MINISTERIAL cries of \"Withdraw.\"] I withdraw nothing. *Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER The hon. Member has no right to make a charge of corruption against another hon. Member. § *Mr. F. E. SMITH I at once, and in respectful obedience to your ruling, Sir, substitute for the charge of corruption the charge of partiality. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/15/clause-6", "section": "clause-6", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "17 of last year's Act, and he gave a guarantee to the Municipal Corporations Association and the County Councils Association that any action of his in altering the duties should not diminish the net amount receivable by the municipalities and county councils. They were grateful to him for that, and they slept in peace. It seemed to him that under this proviso the guarantee would now be withdrawn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/15/clause-7", "section": "clause-7", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "ber had left out one important Empire when he surveyed the income-tax imposed by the various countries of the world. He did not state what Italy charged. There was another very interesting State, namely, Japan, where a graduated income-tax had been imposed. He was told that it ran up to 5s. in the £. That was a very interesting experiment, and he was told that on the whole it had been successful. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/15/clause-7", "section": "clause-7", "cue_text": "IRONICAL cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman opposite had drawn a touching picture of the woes of a man who had a little sum in Consols and who had to pay income-tax upon it. The way to give that man relief was to ascertain precisely where the income of the country was, and to obtain a proper contribution from persons who had large incomes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer talked the other night about robbing the hen roost. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1908/jul/15", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1908/jul/15/irish-land-purchase", "section": "irish-land-purchase", "cue_text": "The noble Earl was greeted with cries of \"Order,\" and resumed his seat.", "preceding_text": " be the contention of the noble Earl. *THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE I do not think I put it quite so high as that. My point was that the British taxpayer will not carry out his bargain unless he produces this money. *LORD DENMAN But the British taxpayer is continuing to provide this money. I speak as a British taxpayer. THE EARL OF MAYO My Lords, I should like to speak as an Irish taxpayer, and to say—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/17/licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "section": "licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about his Wild Birds Bill?", "preceding_text": "se really effective. I trust the 1264 noble Lord will not press his Amendment to a division. I am not at all surprised that it is hailed with enthusiasm by the hon. Baronet the Member for the City of London, who really honestly believes that this House comes here not to legislate, but to abstain from legislation, and he welcomes any attempt, from whatever quarter it comes, to carry out that view. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/17/licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "section": "licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "rgely succeeded by methods of obstruction ingeniously invented and persistently pursued. Both those Members had passed away, but their methods had remained and were practised, he admitted for the sake of argument, with equal reluctance by both parties in the State when in opposition. He had never been in opposition; but he promised the House that ever he was in opposition, which was very unlikely—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/17/licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "section": "licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "ging himself that the 1288 present system could not be permanent and was most undesirable, and that he would submit in due course some other method of procedure for the consideration of the House. Why had that never been done? In the general conduct of their business the present Government had not given the smallest indication that anything of that nature had ever been tried or attempted by them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/17/licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "section": "licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "d with his legislation. At the present time the country desired progressive measures, and in view of the unlimited power of obstruction which the rules of the House placed in the hands of the minority, it had become absolutely necessary to propose Resolutions of the kind they were shortly going to vote upon. Apart from that, there were some things that could be done to save the time of the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/jul/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/jul/17/licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "section": "licensing-bill-allocation-of-time", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Oh\" and \"Shame.\"", "preceding_text": "out from the second 'be,' to end of line 58.'\"—( Mr. Laurence Hardy. ) § Question, \"That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Resolution,\" put, and negatived. § Main Question, as amended proposed. § MR. MITCHELL-THOMSON (Lanarkshire, N.W.) rose to move a new Amendment, when 1313 § MR. ASQUITH rose in his place and claimed to move, \"That the Question be now put.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/mar/17/supply-10th-february-report", "section": "supply-10th-february-report", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ople on the soil if the small holdings were to be composed solely of grass land. Such a policy would, on the contrary, tend to diminish the number, and he presumed therefore that the holdings would be largely arable. In that event it was absolutely essential, unless it happened to be summer time, that there should be buildings on the land, for the cattle, horses, and pigs would have to be housed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/mar/17/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": " opposite have been seizing on certain expressions I used, and twisting and turning those statements into meanings they were never intended to bear. CAPTAIN CRAIG asked the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he was aware that the Chief Secretary himself, on leaving the meeting, turned round to a friend and said— That was an enthusiastic meeting, but there were some people who were opposed—— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/mar/17/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "est admiration for the patience and the reticence which had been shown by the Chief Secretary in this matter, and were delighted at the success which he had achieved. The reason they had not had more convictions was obvious. When hon. Members opposite set about prosecutions they meant to have convictions even if it was necessary that the judge or magistrate should take a conviction in his pocket. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/mar/17/class-iii", "section": "class-iii", "cue_text": "Ironical cries of \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": " achieved. The reason they had not had more convictions was obvious. When hon. Members opposite set about prosecutions they meant to have convictions even if it was necessary that the judge or magistrate should take a conviction in his pocket. [Cries of \"Withdraw.\"] The reason why they could not get convictions from Irish juries was because the neighbours of the accused were in sympathy with him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/18/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ceive religious instruction based upon the reading of the Scriptures and the moral instruction which can be derived from their exposition. But I certainly fear that if the people of this country found themselves unable to get peace in the schools upon the basis of the religious instruction which I have described, they would rather remove religious instruction altogether from State responsibility. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/18/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "us instruction which I have described, they would rather remove religious instruction altogether from State responsibility. [OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"] If peace can be obtained, I believe that religious instruction in our schools will be secured. Failing such peace, I fear that this House will be driving our nation directly on to the end of purely secular instruction in public elementary schools. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/18/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"It will not work.\"", "preceding_text": "ing the efficiency of the teaching? More than half of that was raised on loan, and the interest is a permanent charge on the schools. I point out this to show that it is useless to say that the difference between the 47s. and the cost can be met by the voluntary contributions of the Catholics. There is a provision that fees may be charged. I do not know how that will work with the Church schools. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/18/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How many scholars?", "preceding_text": "s? He would just show the House how the Bill would affect Lancashire. In that county 77 per cent of the schools were voluntary and 66 per cent. of the scholars were educated in them. There were only 100 of the single school areas to which the hon. Member for Louth had referred. In Lancashire there were 1,415 voluntary schools and 410 council schools, showing a majority of 1,005 voluntary schools. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/18/elementary-education-england-and-wales", "section": "elementary-education-england-and-wales", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER below the gangway: No.", "preceding_text": "solution 1758 of this matter would be the secular solution, because he thought that the intelligence of the country was rising, and that the people were more sensible and took a wider view of these things than they used to do. It could not be denied by anyone who watched the present condition of things that the secular solution would never commend itself to the bulk of the people of this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "forward, to show that popular opinion in Scotland was not favourable to this legislation. Hon. Members had received a circular from the Scottish Licensed Trade Defence Association in which the only argument put forward to show that this Bill was not supported by public opinion was that, in the recent 620 Dundee election, out of 16,118 votes recorded the Prohibitionist candidate received only 655. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: In England also.", "preceding_text": "s been said that the consumption of alcohol had not tended to diminish in the United States by the great wave of temperance legislation which had passed over that country. That was not the case. He had the most recent statistics on that point, which showed that in recent times there had been a conspicuous reduction in the consumption not merely of beer but of spirits as well in the United States. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Certainly not.", "preceding_text": "n places where the public-houses were open. That was a very suggestive indictment against the trade by those who were engaged in it. He believed that this Bill would have its rejection moved by one English Member and seconded by another; but if any Scottish Member arose to oppose the Bill, he hoped he would say whether he was prepared or not to bring in a Bill for the abolition of Sunday closing. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "ces, one of which was the total prohibition of public-houses, and it was that with which he was dealing. The title of the Bill was \"A Bill to empower electors in Scotland to prohibit or limit the sale of intoxicating liquors in their respective areas.\" § MR. CAMERON CORBETT That Report does make certain statements against State prohibition. It also makes statements in favour of local option. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the Carlton?", "preceding_text": "n of the law might take place with injurious consequences.\" He could not quite tell what the recommendation did mean, though he was prepared to agree that a. violation of the law would take place. Some very excellent remarks had been made by the Member for Huddersfield speaking on the 2nd December last at the National Liberal Club, an institution where there was not prohibition as far as he knew. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "\" Hear, hear,\" \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": " that Committee, seeing that there is already the Scottish Education Bill before it and that other Government Bills have been promised, which must take precedence of a private Member's. There is an alternative the Government prefer and that is to keep the Bill downstairs; and it will therefore be my duty if the opportunity arises to move that the Bill be committed to Committee of the Whole House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/22/liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "section": "liquor-traffic-local-option-scotland-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": ". § MR. WALTER LONG (Dublin, S.) I do not wish to intervene in this debate except to say that it is a pity in view of the unanimity of opinion in Scotland in regard to licensing reform, or, as some hon. Gentlemen call it, temperance reform, the Government did not devote their attention to a Scottish Bill, in regard to which they would have had the support of the whole of the Scottish Members—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/27/the-kings-visit-to-russia", "section": "the-kings-visit-to-russia", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL and LABOUR Cries of \"No\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": " the noble Lord sees his way to withdraw it, my hon. friend may depend upon it that some opportunity will be found enabling the matter to be discussed, probably to-morrow week. It may be that the Foreign Office Vote will be put down just for a short time to enable a discussion to be raised. 1119 § LORD R. CECIL (Marylebone, E.) I do not know whether the House will allow me to say a few words "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/27/irish-universities-expenses", "section": "irish-universities-expenses", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They were 1159 not arguments.", "preceding_text": "an expenditure of only £80,000 per annum of the sum of £230,000. Would the hon. Member assure him that the £230,000 could, if necessary, be spent in one year? § MR. MARKHAM (Nottinghamshire, Mansfield) said he objected to the course which the discussion had followed. It was a pure case of deliberate obstruction. The same argument had been repeated from the Opposition Benches time after time. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/may/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/may/27/public-offices-sites-extension-expenses", "section": "public-offices-sites-extension-expenses", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ffron Walden) said that his right hon. friend the First Commissioner of Works had asked him if this Resolution came up to-night to express his regret that he could not be present in the House owing to engagement on other official duties elsewhere. The right hon. Gentleman was present on the previous day when this matter was discussed in Committee and he had answered all the questions then raised. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/02/licensing-bill", "section": "licensing-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL Cheers.", "preceding_text": "the structural alteration of premises. If the justices were to have power to say to the licence-holder that he was to spend a large sum of money on the premises, it was probable that the licensee would prefer to forfeit the licence rather than embark on the expenditure. Another important provision in the subsection was that the justices were to have power to close any public-house on polling day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/02/licensing-bill", "section": "licensing-bill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: The clause deals with Parliamentary and local elections.", "preceding_text": "ctions, but with local elections also, and it was a very difficult thing—he knew that there were people who took a more stringent view—to say that at a by-election in one of the wards of a borough it should be a matter of universal enactment that the public-houses in that district should be closed. He doubted very much whether public opinion would support such a stringent and drastic restriction. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/02/licensing-bill", "section": "licensing-bill", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION Cries of \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " that no case had been made out why public-houses should be closed on polling days; and the hon. Baronet the Member for the City of London had quoted Peckham as a paradise where only two people were put in prison for getting drunk on the polling day at the bye-election for that constituency. As one who visited Peckham on the polling day, he could only say that it was a pandemonium of drunkenness. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/02/licensing-bill", "section": "licensing-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "y made any concession on this point either now or at a later stage. To make the concession which had been indicated would really mean the allowing of houses to be open on Sunday. It would be possible for them to set apart a room in which meals could be served. § MR. MARKHAM (Nottinghamshire, Mansfield) said that the hon. Member for Liverpool had repeated the same argument eight or ten times. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/02/licensing-bill", "section": "licensing-bill", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_text": "ded the character of this occupation in relation to women labour, and there was hardly a magistrate in the country, who had had cases brought before him concerning the kind of life spent in bars and behind bars, who had not expressed himself in favour of legislation prohibiting or drastically regulating the employment of women in these trades. § MR. LUPTON Why not pass a law to keep out men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/02/licensing-bill", "section": "licensing-bill", "cue_text": "MINISTERIAL cheers.", "preceding_text": "educated, as moral in their habits, and as well deserving of protection in their desire to earn their own living as any class of women in other walks of life. A lady who had made herself responsible in the country for defending the employment of women in bars had given him particulars of some individual cases. He could assure hon. Gentlemen that there were not many women who liked the occupation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/23/irish-land", "section": "irish-land", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_text": "de his shot, and his shot was £100,000,000. Now, I am told by my advisers—who are, I daresay, the same as those who advised him, of course with the experience of what has since happened—that that was an exceedingly bad shot, and there is very little doubt in the opinion of my advisers that the total he ought to have named, could he have foreseen the future, was not £100,000,000, but £180,000,000. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/23/irish-land", "section": "irish-land", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no\" and \"Go on.\"", "preceding_text": " powers will have to be exercised within close limits owing to the limitations of the resources of the Estates Commissioners. Yet these powers are as necessary in the one case as in the other to secure that social order for which, and for which alone, you can justify the provisions of the Act of 1901. I am very sorry for having occupied so much of the time of the House in explaining this measure —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/23/irish-land", "section": "irish-land", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "ongestion which would let out the people on to the land upon which their fathers and forefathers had worked. The people would do the rest, and they would 1884 change the whole face of the country, making the land hum with their industry. He was aware that every promoter of a Land Bill said his own particular measure would be absolutely the last. He profoundly believed that this would be the last. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/nov/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/nov/23/irish-land", "section": "irish-land", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\" from the IRISH Benches.", "preceding_text": " the speech of the hon. Member for Cambridge University, who told us that we should find in the Reports two sides of the question regarding the change of the grazing land into arable land? With regard to this cattle question there is one fact which nobody can deny, and that is, that the cattle industry is by far the greatest, most prosperous, and most valuable in money of any industry in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "OPPOSITION cries of \"Shame.\"", "preceding_text": "ed on the whole of his property. He did not know whether the noble Lord had ever exercised that right, but he did know districts in which by the action of the landowners not a single public-house was allowed. He knew a high road along which he had often ridden for ten miles on returning from hunting, and another road where he had ridden for twelve miles, where there was not a single public-house. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "Ironical cries I of \"Hear, hear,\" from the LABOUR benches.", "preceding_text": " friend appealed to the Government to make clear the scheme which they proposed in relation to Clause 2 and Clause 3, and he might be peculiarly unfortunate or peculiarly slow of apprehension, but he really was left in an absolute fog as to what the Government's intention was. He did not believe that any hon. Gentlemen on the Ministerial side had the smallest idea of what 335 their intention was. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": ". It was because he wished to see the main principle passed into law that he opposed this clause. § MR. F. E. SMITH (Liverpool, Walton) asked the Government whether he rightly interpreted the position as explained by the Prime Minister. As he understood it, the present view of the Government was that the local option proposals were not to operate in regard to the new licences under Clause 2. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_text": "lenge to any hon. Gentleman who supported the Bill. 341 Could he point to any place on the earth in which local option — as it was so erroneously called—had been in operation, where the total consumption of alcoholic drink had been lessened by 1d. in the course of the year. That was a fair test. [The Prime Minister here left the House.] He was sorry he had frightened the right hon. Gentleman away—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": " option done any good from the temperance point of view? They might point to one or two limited districts and say that by the artificial operation of this system in such a district, there was a less consumption in that particular piece of God's earth; but as against that, they had the fact that there was a great consumption in the district immediately adjoining, with infinitely intensified evils. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.", "preceding_text": "vernment. They talked glibly about giving the people power to decide, but they did not give that power. First of all, they selected a carefully limited section of the community to decide the question; and, on that, let him remind hon. Gentlemen on that side of the House that where local option had been put in force the highest poll ever recorded did not exceed 33 per cent. of the parish electors. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "venue officers. Then others, finding they have no facilities in the city, make a weekly pilgrimage on Saturday afternoons to Hitchiu and Baldock (three miles away), and stop in the 'pubs' till the last train, at 10.30 p.m., to the Garden City. This train has got to be known as the 'drunkard's train,' so bad is the condition in which they get. AN HON. MEMBER Every last train is a drunkard's train. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1908/oct/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1908/oct/14/licensing-bill-1", "section": "licensing-bill-1", "cue_text": "Ironical cheers.", "preceding_text": "le at the city, and a more sober body of tenants was never known. Judging by the regularity with which the rents were paid, they had evidence that these people knew how to make the right use of their wages. As chairman of this society he came into close contact with what he thought was the largest social club in the city. He could assure the hon. Gentleman that a more decent and sober lot of men. "}