This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...is that which, upon full deliberation, we ought to choose; whether the franchise should be 1864 WORKING-MEN AND THE FRANCHISE. 191 founded on ratepaying or on occupation; neither will I consider whf 'hcr or not there should be a lodgers' franchise. I put aside every question except the very simple one which I take to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...is that which, upon full deliberation, we ought to choose; whether the franchise should be 1864 WORKING-MEN AND THE FRANCHISE. 191 founded on ratepaying or on occupation; neither will I consider whf 'hcr or not there should be a lodgers' franchise. I put aside every question except the very simple one which I take to be at issue, and on this I will endeavour not to be misunderstood. I apprehend my honourable friend's Bill to mean (and if such be the meaning, I give my cordial concurrence to the proposition) that there ought to be, not a wholesale, nor an excessive, but a sensible and considerable addition to that portion of the working-classes--at present almost infinitesimal--which is in possession of the franchise I apprehend that I am correct in sayiug that those who possess the franchise are less than one-fiflielh of the whole number of the working-classes. I? that a state of things which we cannot venture to touch or modify? Is there no choice between excluding forty-nine out of every fifty working-men on the one hand, and on the other a 'domestic revolution'? Mr. Cave had made use of that phrase in moving the amendment We are told that the working-classes do not agitate for an extension of the franchise; but is it desirable that we should wait until they do agitate? In my opinion, agitation by the working-classes, upon any political subject whatever, is a tiling not to be waited for, not to be made a condition previous to any Parliamentary movement, but, on the contrary, it is a thing to be deprecated, and, if possible, anticipated and prevented by wise and provident measures. An agitation by the working-classes is not like an agitation by the classes above them--the classes possessed of leisure. The agitation of the classes having leisure is easily c...
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