While progressive, the people of that country are also conservative, but with each successive decade they extend the power of the House of Commons so that already in some respects it represents better the public sentiment than the Congress of the United States.
Sherman describes the balance of progressivism and conservatism in British society and its evolving representation in government.
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The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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