{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/dec/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/dec/23/adjournment-christmas-1", "section": "adjournment-christmas-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": " said here travels elsewhere, that any investigation conducted by us, or any preparations made for the return of peace are not made with the idea of abandoning the harmony which now exists between the Allies or in any way hastening the return of peace at the cost of the main object for which we are fighting. That is one of the risks which we undoubtedly run in discussing these subjects in public. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/dec/23", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/dec/23/adjournment-christmas-1", "section": "adjournment-christmas-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They owe us one!\"", "preceding_text": "authorities in order to guide the local tribunals under the system of Lord Derby's groups. I showed the hon. Gentleman a new booklet which has just been issued to these committees to-day. Five thousand will be 763 going out to-day—have gone out to-day probably by now—and 25,000 is the first issue, and every Member of this House will receive a copy, a sort of Christmas present from the War Office. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/persian-gulf-medals", "section": "persian-gulf-medals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "he First Lord of the Admiralty whether he can make some definite pronouncement as to the date when the long promised Persian Gulf medal, earned in 1912, will be awarded? § The PARLIAMENTAY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Dr. Macnamara) It is hoped to begin the distribution of the medals very shortly. Sir C. KINLOCH COOKE Is the right hon. Gentleman aware there is a very common saying in the Navy—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "great confidence that if you are going to secure that every man who can lend a hand is going to lend a hand, we must first know what men there are and what they can do, and then it would be our duty to do our best to see that their energies are directed into the right channel. A question which is very naturally asked is, \"Given that you get this information, what use are you going to make of it?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " be brought together, but we are to see that so far as possible that they are engaged in a manner which will give immediate aid to the country in prosecuting this War to a successful conclusion. The machinery by which this Bill will be put into operation is not, I think, difficult to devise, but I confess at once that I hesitate to pronounce definitely what form of machinery should be introduced —"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " that the spirit of patriotism in our country is throughout the whole of our people, and I attribute to nobody motives less worthy than those who have got to work out a policy which they believe they are right in advising the House to adopt. I have observed that one of the objections to this Bill is that it contains in some mysterious and concealed fashion the policy of conscription for the Army. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "one kind, and they were, \"Why did you not bring 60 in this Bill long before?\" I should like to ask those who are critics to-day, of myself and of the Government, and who are going to oppose this Bill, if the late Government had brought in the Munitions Act four or five months ago, would they not have used to the Government then the identical argument which they are using to the Government to-day? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "t it is hardly worth mentioning, helpful, making suggestions, or offering services of one kind or another, I have not had any suggestion that the information which is going to be given ought to be kept secret. But the Census contains a clause to that effect. There is no difficulty, and I shall have no objection, if the House as a whole desires it, in inserting words of the same kind in this Bill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBKHS: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "o wish to pursue this War for all that we are worth. I would put in every ounce, every man, and every penny; stick at nothing; do everything, submit to anything, necessary to smash our foe and assist our Allies—anything that is necessary and desirable. That is the whole point. Is it necessary and is it desirable? If it is necessary, I do not object to registration, to compulsion, to conscription. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_text": " register all the women and girls from fifteen to sixty-five. And when they do register, use them. Do not play with them as you have played with the manufacturers of this country. Do not make them feel they are being trifled with. Unless this Bill is going to be used for compulsion it will be of no use whatever. It is a mere waste of time and money, disturbing everything and irritating everybody. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "e War Office. If one quarter of what reliable and trustworthy men tell us of the conduct of the business Departments of the War Office to-day be true, it is not registration you want, but wholesale dismissal! The difficulty is not mainly the men—nor getting them. Go about amongst the manufacturers and employers of this country. Hear what they have to say of offers of supplies not accepted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " stories we have had about Woolwich. Everywhere else it is the same. It is not the men; it is the head! That is where you need this organisation and the rest of it. The speech of the Minister of Munitions on the Munitions Bill created the impression of neglect of serious duties somewhere. If that impression created was sound and true, it meant that somebody ought to be in the Tower! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "d in the papers, and seen speeches as to \"the first step.\" This Bill is described as the \"first step.\" Then it is described as \"another step.\" The jingo and yellow Press of this country are in full cry. All who advocate conscription and compulsion are delighted. That ought to put us upon our guard. In my judgment they are the wrong lot. [An HON. MEMISER: \"NO!\"] They blundered badly before. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "] During the last three or four years they would have rushed us into steps which would have been absolutely disastrous for this country. That, to-day, should be obvious to the most dense. I mistrust them badly! They are pursuing the same partisan cry now, and have been hounding us on for this measure. What does it mean? We had an article in the \"Times\": \"Registration a military necessity.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"'NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": "try at the present time entrusted with the gravest affairs which the country could entrust to any Ministry. But I cannot help thinking in the two speeches of criticism on this Bill to which we have listened, there has been a great deal more than antipathy to the Bill. There has been not merely a covert distrust of the Coalition administration, but an avowed hostility to some of the Members of it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Order, order \"", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Spen Valley (Sir T. Whittaker). I would circulate that speech not merely in the Spen Valley, but everywhere where there are British electors to deal with the Government. Here is a Bill presented by a Coalition Government, not more than three weeks old, and we have just had from a right hon. Gentleman who sits here in default of a more convenient place "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"You have done it this time.\"", "preceding_text": "o deal with the Government. Here is a Bill presented by a Coalition Government, not more than three weeks old, and we have just had from a right hon. Gentleman who sits here in default of a more convenient place [HON MEMBERS: \"Order, order \"] I think hon. Members have misunderstood me. I never have said intentionally an offensive word to any Member of this House or about any Member of this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "of Coalition. This Bill has been described as a futile, extravagant, idle, and absurd measure. These are the terms in which it has been spoken of. Three weeks ago the Administration was formed which presents this, the second or third of the measures which it has been its duty to present. Then one is asked to shut one's eyes to the fact that there are old antagonisms and old political differences. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBKRS: \"Not' anything!'\"", "preceding_text": "ake a sacrifice of our public honour and our rights. We will resist, it to the last ounce of our strength, to the last shilling of our means, to the last drop of our blood. That was a very worthy sentiment, nobly expressed, as it was sure to be expressed by the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Spen Valley said:— We will do anything for the successful prosecution\"— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"and \"Is it Exeter?\"", "preceding_text": "fferent character. Your recruiting is not over. Nobody believes it is. You are going to deplete some of your units to man your factories. Take that one section in this Bill. I will say nothing about the industries to which the right hon. Gentleman referred. Is there any one of us who has gone into a town who has not seen able-bodied young fellows flaunting their indifference to the public danger? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_text": "Members to consider whether they can go into a town and fail to see that there are young men as to whom they ask themselves, \"I wonder what you are doing for your country? If hon. Members are more fortunate than some of us in that respect, very well, it is gratifying it should be so. But it is common knowledge that when you go into the streets you see young men, able-bodied men and unmarried men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What then?\"", "preceding_text": "ould be so. But it is common knowledge that when you go into the streets you see young men, able-bodied men and unmarried men. [An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW do you know?\"] You cannot ask them, it is not the lot of the private citizen to ask such a person, \"What are you doing for your country?\" but Parliament is entitled to entrust His Majesty's Government with the responsibility of putting that question. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 107 \"What was the date of the letter?\"", "preceding_text": "o the Government have been made by women who, in some cases, were treated with the most serious discourtesy. A correspondent, a man of extraordinary organising capacity, tells me in a letter:— I have offered my services in six directions. In the case of two, no reply: one, a badly stereotyped letter unsigned; the remainder, none accepted. I know a mechanical engineer who has not even got a reply. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_text": "an—and this is indication of the businesslike way in which the material supplied by this register will be used — was contained in a quotation in regard to Sir Evelyn Wood, who said:— Tell me what to do. Is it crossing-sweeping—give me a broom. Is that what the Government are going to do? Are they going to put generals to sweep crossings? Are they going to have crossing-sweepers to manage the War? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " support of the Bill this afternoon, but it has been left to 109 the right hon. Gentleman the Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board to admit that this is the ulterior motive of the Bill. § Mr. HAYES FISHER dissented. § Mr. SNOWDEN I have his words. He was speaking of military necessity, and he said, 'The time is not far distant when we may need to call upon these people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is it'! \"and\" Name!\"", "preceding_text": "tary service behind this Bill. I have never looked with favour upon this Coalition Government, and therefore the right hon. Gentleman's strictures fell upon a hard heart and deaf ears so far as I am concerned. I know the genesis of this Government. I know that this Government are not free agents and that the man who destroyed the last Government continues to dictate the policy of this Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "d that you cannot afford to think of only one thing at a time. Six or nine months hence the want of material might have been made good, and the great cry once more be for men. Should we not even now be preparing to get them? I need not argue the point further, as the contention I am urging is accepted by the supporters of the Bill that this Bill is to form the basis of compulsory national service—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": ". Long. \"It suggested that, probably, some hon. Member opposite would move an Amendment making this the statutory answer:— I am willing to serve my country in any capacity whatever which the Government decide to be more useful than my present work.' \"In any capacity. \"I am extremely grateful for the support of my contention that this is intended as a means of imposing compulsory military service. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What will you say?\"", "preceding_text": "x0021; Grave penalties are to be imposed for any violations of the provisions of this Act. A boy of fifteen years is asked to state the nature of his employer's business, and then there is that very peculiar question which the Times \"wants to see amended in some way and which asks if they are already serving the Government in some way. What are members of Parliament going to say in reply to that? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\" and another HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_text": "re is that very peculiar question which the Times \"wants to see amended in some way and which asks if they are already serving the Government in some way. What are members of Parliament going to say in reply to that? [An HON. MEMBER: \"What will you say?\"] I have thought very seriously about it, and I have formed in my own mind an answer to it which will be satisfactory to the Government, I think. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "at Britain and Ireland ha/e been united in the prosecution of this War. There are no men in this House, and very few outside it, who will not say with the Prime Minister that we will spend every penny and spill our last drop of blood in order to bring this War to a successful conclusion. What are the objects? They are many and great. The very existence of great Britain and the Empire is at stake. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "ing the War to an honourable and a triumphant conclusion without losing all our national characteristics. At the beginning of the War Rudyard Kipling asked in a line which has become famous, \"Who dies if England lives?\" and that fine phrase has been a solace and a comfort to thousands of sorrowing hearts since the War began. I should like to ask the converse question, \"Who lives if England dies?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "h, a speech to which I think many of us listened with very great pain, was the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley (Sir T. Whittaker). He conjured up in 141 language, which we all deplore, the dangers and difficulties created by this Bill, and the suspicions which he had of this Government, this Government to which we are all pledged as perhaps a forlorn hope to save us. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quote!\"", "preceding_text": "t conceive how anyone who looks at Clauses 5, 6, and 7, which are the very essence of the Bill, and without which the Bill is useless and unworkable, can deny that we are setting up almost identically the system of registration which obtains in Prussia and also in Russia. We are forcing people to register. We are giving them a passport—I think the right hon. Gentleman called it a tieket-of-leave. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_text": "e are accustomed to change their dwellings very often, quite reasonably and rightly—are expected to produce this certificate—this ticket-of-leave—and 154 get a new one in its place. I say that that is a most utterly unwarranted infringement of the liberty of the subject. I further say that the framers of this Bill—the Government—are evidently totally unaware of the opposition that they will meet. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_text": " a very convenient thing for hon. Gentlemen opposite to imagine, as they have imagined in the past, between elections, that the country will endorse all that they say. Whenever it has been put to the test in late years it has been shown that that Tory argument is unfounded, and I say that you are going to have, if you pass this Bill, passive resistance again in an aggravated form in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about the Insurance Act ?\"", "preceding_text": "have imagined in the past, between elections, that the country will endorse all that they say. Whenever it has been put to the test in late years it has been shown that that Tory argument is unfounded, and I say that you are going to have, if you pass this Bill, passive resistance again in an aggravated form in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] I agree; but shame on those who pass it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\" \"Sit down!\" and \"Shame!\"", "preceding_text": " all that they say. Whenever it has been put to the test in late years it has been shown that that Tory argument is unfounded, and I say that you are going to have, if you pass this Bill, passive resistance again in an aggravated form in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] I agree; but shame on those who pass it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How about the Insurance Act ?\"] I would like to say this—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not fit to be heard!\"", "preceding_text": "pt would be made to pass controversial measures in this House. We were told that the Government would strictly adhere to that pledge. I claim that this is a highly controversial measure, and as a highly controversial measure I hold the Prime Minister to the pledge that he gave, and I ask that it should not be proceeded with. I do not know why hon. Members are so anxious to prevent my being heard. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ny hon. Members on this side of the House who desire to express their opinions on this Bill. There are many of us who have been unable hitherto to have the chance of saying what we think. I would earnestly ask the Government, if they cannot see their way to withdraw the Bill, at all events to give us another day so that it may be properly debated before, we go to a Division on the Second Reading. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "ly themselves to thank. With a good case in favour of the Bill they have allowed the Debate to proceed until ten o'clock at night, with hardly any speaker in support of it, with the result that the impression will go forth to-morrow, no matter what the vote at the end may be, that the weight of argument in the House of Commons was against the Bill proposed by the Government and not in its favour. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "eman the Member for Tyneside (Mr. J. M. Robertson) and the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Snowden) brought forward deserved to be met, and met at once, because they were real arguments. But the Government allowed the case, to which I presume they attach importance, practically to go by default throughout the whole of this Debate. The Government Benches have been almost empty throughout the Debate—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " of that day, is it not possible—and I really speak in the interests of peace—for the present Government to make some concession of so substantial a nature to the opposition with which they are now threatened—and which is sure to recur upon the Committee stage of this Bill—as will remove the necessity for a Division to-night? A Division of this House is sure to spread to divisions in the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jul/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jul/05/national-registration-bill-1", "section": "national-registration-bill-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEB: \"They have taken no notice of it!\"", "preceding_text": "hen it was explained what the purpose of the Committee was, that it was not necessarily a recruiting committee but a Committee to find out where the recruiting sergeant might go with safety and where he ought to stay-away, all objections were removed. My hon. Friend (Mr. Brace) reminds me that the Committee reported that it was dangerous to recruit further to any large extent in the mining areas. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jun/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jun/15/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the drink?\"", "preceding_text": "peech that the occasion demanded. The Prime Minister was talking to an audience of men who had given of their best, and who had worked night and day. He was talking to an audience of working men that had proved they were alive to the nation's difficulty. He is abused and condemned because he did not go down to these people and say, \"You are a wicked lot of scoundrels who are not doing your best.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jun/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jun/15/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": " is the function of the House of Commons? I think none of us here need have the least hesitation about entering upon criticism when we have had such an extraordinary sanction given to criticism arising not in this House, but from outside soirees, a criticism which caused the Prime Minister to break up his Government and institute in its stead, in a patchwork and inefficient way, a new Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/jun/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/jun/15/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about submarine prisoners?\"", "preceding_text": "tify my remark about the patchwork character of the Government. Of all the Members of the late Government there were only two who showed any signs of being men of action; one of them is the present Minister of Munitions and the other I will leave hon. Members to name. What has been the fate of that man? He alone, while retained in the Government, has been relegated to a position perhaps of honour—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"You are 841 afraid to.\"", "preceding_text": "tter a little longer we shall find out where the responsibility really lies. The object of my Amendment is to have the whole matter concentrated under one Minister. If we are told that these matters are concentrated in Lord Kitchener, I say at once they ought not to be concentrated there. It is not quite fair to say that we wish to criticise him, because I do not wish to criticise Lord Kitchener. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_text": "OYNSON-HICKS It is almost impossible to carry on a Debate on a question of this kind by question and answer. I do not want to say anything to provoke an angry discussion, but I want to arrive at some solution of this very difficult question. I say perfectly frankly that if Lord Kitchener is responsible for some of the things which I will mention in a moment, then I shall criticise Lord Kitchener. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The War Office.\"", "preceding_text": " him. § Mr. TENNANT The hon. Gentleman has made that appeal to me, and naturally I accept all responsibility for War Office matters. I am here for that purpose. § Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS No, you cannot quite get out of it in that way. § Mr. TENNANT I do not want to get out of it. § Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS The right hon. Gentleman the Homo Secretary says that Lord Kitchener is responsible. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": " the chief constable of Hertfordshire, and the chief constable of Hertfordshire wrote to my friend, a man of position in the county and a man whose name I can give the right hon. Gentleman, and I do not hesitate to say that instead of getting thanks he got bullying from the chief constable for dealing with the matter. Perhaps it is only fair to say that 844 my informant wrote a rather hasty reply "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep him there!\"", "preceding_text": "e some information with regard to that. You take a man away from his employment—you cannot help it; it is a hardship, no doubt, entitled by war—and you intern him. He may be a clerk, a professional man, a manufacturer, or anything. You take him right away from his employment and intern him for two, three or six months, and 884 then, as he cannot go back to his own business, what has he got to do? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_text": "s (Sir H. Dalziel) made a very strong case with regard to the point of there being no discrimination. I certainly think there ought to be some sort of discrimination before some Board, where a man would be able to state his case and show that he was not in the least likely to be a dangerous enemy. The hon. Member for Brentford wished to lock up everyone of these men. Now Germany does not do that. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ent of those pirates and sea murderers, and I wish we could see a little more in regard to the locking up of the alien enemies, and the right hon. Gentleman must see that the Government have no sense of proportion. Every British subject is interned in Germany irrespective of age or whether he is ill, and he is ill-used, insulted, and ill-fed. Here we have aliens almost caressed by the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/mar/03/aliens-1", "section": "aliens-1", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": " rather warmly on this question, and I think it is serious that we should pay these honours to the people who murder our women and children. I think the leniency and chivalry shown is rather in the nature of chivalry gone mad. We do not want to show the sort of flabby sentimentality which we have been showing in regard to these aliens. I do not want them ill-treated, but I want them all locked up—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/05/class-2", "section": "class-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a cash rise?\"", "preceding_text": "is greater than it was when the War broke out. If the shortage exists it should have shown itself in an increase in wages. The question of an increase in wages is always a difficult matter and easy to contradict. Our information at the Board shows that since the War began there has been an average rise of from 10 to 15 per cent. in the wages of agricultural labourers—that is in England and Wales. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/05/class-2", "section": "class-2", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": " in agriculture. Why does not he, and those he represents—why do not the representatives of agriculture for whom the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wimbledon will presently speak, instead of raiding the elementary schools and taking children of eleven and twelve years of age totally from school, and bring to a sudden, and probably a final, end their education, not raid the secondary schools? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/05/class-2", "section": "class-2", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is smiling at another joke!\"", "preceding_text": "ld wholesale, and they are certainly prices which the War Department are not prepared to pay. All this is causing discontent; I hope the hon. 1165 Baronet will take note of it, and I may point out that, if these quotations must be given at all, they are not a fair guide to the basis on which War Office contracts are made. The Board of Agriculture does not appear—I am sorry the hon. Baronet smiles—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/05/german-treatment-of-british-officers-1", "section": "german-treatment-of-british-officers-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO. 7.\"", "preceding_text": "ibal of an enemy, and the sooner we beat him the better. If we devote our attention to anything else, we shall be disappointed. My right hon. Friend suggested sending a White Paper to neutral countries. What White Paper? Sir H. DALZIEL On the treatment of prisoners. § Mr. BOOTH The number is not given. The last White Paper that was furnished to us would damn us in every country in the world. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/06/army-pay-corps", "section": "army-pay-corps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Am I not entitled to an answer to a question which is on the Paper? Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER The hon. and learned Member has had an answer, which he will see on the records if he did not catch its purport. § Mr. HOHLER This part of the question was not answered, and I submit I am entitled to an answer. The question was not answered—it is on the Paper, and I propose to read it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/06/munitions-and-transport-areas", "section": "munitions-and-transport-areas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"!", "preceding_text": "eted before nightfall. § Mr. W. O'BRIEN May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, if he is lucky enough to come to an agreement, he will have the terms of that agreement published at once without waiting until next week? § Mr. LLOYD GEORGE The House of Commons is always entitled to the first announcement in a matter of this kind. If the House of Commons is prepared to waive that right—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/06/munitions-and-transport-areas", "section": "munitions-and-transport-areas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_text": "rived at, it should be made known. I quite take the hon. Gentleman's view, because, after all, the matter is one that concerns a considerable trade, and a still more considerable public, and I think that they are entitled to know, the moment that the Government have made an arrangement, what the terms of that arrangement are. I take it that, on the whole, that is the view of the House of Commons. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/06/munitions-and-transport-areas", "section": "munitions-and-transport-areas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Satisfactory!\"", "preceding_text": "uld prove unsatisfactory.\" How could it be unsatisfactory if it is agreed to by all parties? What I really want to know is this— § Mr. LLOYD GEORGE My hon. Friend is under the impression that I said something, and has quoted something, but I never said anything of the kind. § Mr. DILLON The right hon. Gentleman said if the arrangement was unsatisfactory it could be discussed on Tuesday. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/06/munitions-and-transport-areas", "section": "munitions-and-transport-areas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 1307 \"Sit down, then!\" and Laughter.", "preceding_text": "s War, and that when we are at war it means that we are prepared to enable the Government to fight it as they ought to be able to do. § Mr. LOUGH I should like to thank my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister for the generous spirit in which he has met the Motion made by the hon. and learned Member for Waterford (Mr. J. Redmond). I really do not think the matter ought to be further discussed—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/19/civil-service-german-examiners", "section": "civil-service-german-examiners", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "ho speak the language as their mother-tongue. § Mr. McNEILL Is the hon. Gentleman aware that at these very same examinations the examiners in French were Englishmen, and will he explain why in the other case it was necessary to employ alien enemies? § Mr. ACLAND It is rather more common to find Englishmen who speak French fluently than it is to find Englishmen who speak German fluently. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/19/statements-by-the-prime-minister-and-mr", "section": "statements-by-the-prime-minister-and-mr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_text": "ill, of course, have the fullest opportunity of expressing itself, if it so desires, upon them. § Mr. BONAR LAW I think it is only necessary to say on behalf of my Friends and myself that at the stage which this matter has reached our sole consideration, taking into account what further steps will be taken, will be the sole idea as to what is the best method of finishing the War successfully—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/19/royal-assent", "section": "royal-assent", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty-two bites!\"", "preceding_text": " prudence and wise precaution that we should economise and prevent all waste of food, while inculcating among the people the necessity of self-denial and of a simple life. In my own judgment the majority of the people of the country eat more than is good for them, and if they took twice the time to eat two-thirds the amount they now consume they would be better men and better women than they are. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/19/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_text": "been so extremely severe upon racing to-day, before they finally make up their minds, to read the debate at the Jockey Club, and particularly the speech of Lord Villiers, in which the arguments for and against racing as connected with our great national industry were most ably marshalled and most admirably argued. I leave the subject, though I think it is worthy of being discussed at length here. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/19/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "o read the debate at the Jockey Club, and particularly the speech of Lord Villiers, in which the arguments for and against racing as connected with our great national industry were most ably marshalled and most admirably argued. I leave the subject, though I think it is worthy of being discussed at length here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"] Only I do not think that I am worthy to deal with it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/may/19/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty-eight\"!", "preceding_text": "s. I must not be taken as promising to undertake it. My hon. Friend made a further suggestion that we should raise the age for service in this country to fifty-five years. This war is a very strenuous business, and I do not think I should view, nor would my hon. Friend view, exactly with complacency battalions going to the front between the ages of forty-five and fifty-five for fighting purposes. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS indicated dissent.", "preceding_text": " now involved, I would not waste one minute of the time of the House in raising the subject. I do not think the argument put forward by the Prime Minister was based upon any suggestion that the raising of this subject would interfere with the course of the battle, but merely that it would raise a contraversial issue. I maintain that the case which we put forward is not controversial in the least. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "eak on behalf of the Army at the front, but for the whole of the past year I have been in the very closest touch with that Army, both officers and men, and I can say to the House, without fear of contradiction, in spite of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said from the Front Opposition Bench, that the whole Army at the present moment is anxiously waiting for a declaration by the Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not argue the question.\"", "preceding_text": "r the rough and ready and unscientific method of raising the height and increasing the chest measurement. That is not against the voluntary system. It is against the bad handling of the voluntary system. If the voluntary system has done so well, in spite of that bad management, it should be an encouragement to us to go on with it, to handle it better, and to give it a better chance in the future. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "posite said that no case had been made to show the failure of the voluntary system. Last week in the City of London I saw a scene which I had never seen there before. There was a large crowd opposite the Royal Exchange, and on the steps were two soldiers endeavouring to persuade people to come forward to fight for their homes and country. Is not that evidence that the voluntary system has failed? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "and three small boys, suddenly appeared. The chairman turned to the magistrate on the other side and said something to him, and the three boys and the man disappeared with the magistrate through another door. I said, \"What did you do that for? If these boys are defendants in this case why do not they go into the dock?\" The reply was, \"They are recruits.\" That is an absolute fact. I saw it myself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_text": "we may find that we cannot go on, for the simple reason that we have not any money with which to go on. § Mr. PRINGLE Do you want to have men cheaper? § Sir F. BANBURY In saying that, I am well aware that that point has been brought forward by opponents of National Service. I do not think anyone who advocates National Service proposes to reduce by a single penny the pay of the soldiers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1915/sep/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1915/sep/28/compulsory-service", "section": "compulsory-service", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "is moment, when we are in the midst of the gravest crisis of the War, meaning that a great deal, as I have been informed in other quarters, may turn upon what is being done at this very moment, there could not be a worse time, in the interest of the country and the success of the War, than the introduction of a question like this. The hon. Gentleman told us that they do this from a sense of duty. "}