I want to know what title the resident magistrate had to make such a condition as that. (Opposition cheers.) Most dangerous is this introduction of the new discretion of resident magistrates,--a discretion of imposing new restrictions upon prisoners.
In a speech on Home Rule, Gladstone criticizes the dangerous expansion of discretion given to resident magistrates to impose new restrictions on prisoners.
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I do not believe the act does justify them; but this I am bound to say, that the interpretation of the act appears to be deliberately applied in a variety of instances for the punishment of simple exclusive dealing.
If this be a question of time at all, then it is most important to consider what is the right time.
I repeat my lamentations that some of the most difficult and the nicest parts of the law are removed by the operation of the Coercion Act of last year from judges and juries to men whom I termed of an inferior stamp.
There must be, and will be, cases of harsh and unreasonable persecution under the name of boycotting.
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