http://istorijska-biblioteka.wikidot.com/isbi:newsletter
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[[span class="fixedcorner"]]*http://istorijska-biblioteka.wikidot.com/isbi:newsletter[[/span]]
A period of supreme effort lies before you. The election with which this Parliament will close, and towards which we are moving, is one which is different in notable features from any other which we have known. Looking back over the politics of the last thirty years, we hardly ever see a Conservative Opposition approaching an election without a programme—on paper at any rate—of social and democratic reform.
There was Lord Beaconsfield, with his policy of "Health and the laws of health." There was the Tory democracy of Lord Randolph Churchill in 1885 and 1886, with large far-reaching plans of Liberal and democratic reform, of a generous policy to Ireland, of retrenchment and reduction of expenditure upon naval and military armaments—all promises to the people, and for the sake of which he resigned rather than play them false. [Cheers.] Then you have the elections of 1892 and 1895. In each the Conservative party, whether in office or Opposition, was. under the powerful influence of Mr. Chamberlain, committed to most extensive social programmes, of what we should call Liberal and Radical reforms, like the Workmen's Compensation Act and old-age pensions, part of which were carried out by them and part by others
