Men talked of humiliation abroad, ruin at home, agricultural interests doomed, trade at a standstill—calamities all obviously due to a government without spirit, and a majority with no independence.
Morley critiques the dire predictions made about the state of the nation and its government.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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