John Morley: “Is it not discreditable to us that even now it is only by unconstitutional means that we are able to secure peace and…”

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.