It at once became clear that the Lords would avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them by the single presentation of financial bills, and would prolong, and virtually re-enact a tax, which the representatives of the people had repealed.
Morley reflects on the political maneuvering of the House of Lords regarding financial legislation.
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The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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