The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-15
English P0litics---Speech OF job n
Bright. 'a

Mr.. John Bright addressed large
meeting ar Birmingham, on the 18th ult,
IN which he gave caustic exposition of
the Tory policy, and explained the pass
age Of the Derby reform BILL After
blief history of the several reform bills
introduced during the past ten years, he
said:
But now let me ask you what is the
spectacle which the government and par,
ty OF Lord Derby offered to the view
OF the world. Hear, hear. Last ses-
SION they objected to franchise of ct
gu will remember thatlast session one of
the most powerful arguments that was
made against the bill of Lord Russell,
was, that it would be unsafe 20 extend
the franchise to householders Ell, because
if you went SO far as that you could not
avoid going further, even to household
done now? Laughter, hear, hear, and
cheers I am not regretting it or la
mentlng it. Hear, hear | am only
relating the fact that these men, who
were terrified that e7 rental might
bring them to household suffrage, have
gone at once to household suffrage. Hear
hear, and cheers. In fact, there has
been nothing like it that | remember
since that great event of which some wri-
ter-speaks when he says that
eThe beasts committed suicide to save themselves
from slaughter"
The Tory party plays the same role in
English politics which is taken in this
country by the Democratic party. The
protralture of it by Mr.. Bright will show
the striking analogy which exists between
the conversative party il England and the
conservative party in the United States.
Mr.. Bright said
But this lesson you may learn from this
event. or others III our history, that the
Tory party Is the party which in all our
politics is wrong, and not only wrong, but
1t Is perverse, hear, hear, and being
wrong and perversa, 1t appears to be for
the most part Interchangeable Hear,
hear, TO to this town, where probably
your Tory party has had scarcely an OPP
portunity of exhibiting its true character
istics: hear, hear, and laughter go to
any town in the Kingdom, or any county
or go to any newspaper Office, where the
newspaper advocates the politics of the
Tory party, what is it you find You find
this always, that every good question in
every department of political life is OPP
posed by the Tory everywhere, until a
certain point, when opposition is no longer
possible or safe, and the whole thing col
lapses, and there is a general capitulation.
Laughter and Cheers
After illustrating this point by several
historical references, he continued his
sketch of the characteristics OF the Tory
party as follows, wherein the likeness ex-
listing between Toryism in England and
so-called Democracy in the United States
is yet more strongly exempliied;
But do you suppose this party is con-
verted? [Cries of '''No."l Not the least
of it. Loud cries of ''No, no. y When
this bill has passed, the Tory Party will
rise again, and it viii play exactly the
same game of opposition and resistance
to every good and honest measure which
is introduced to the House of Commons.
Hear, hear. Is it not a melancholy
facts it not a thing we must all deplore
that we have to spend so much labor,
so much expense, SO many meetings,
and form so many associations ana so
many leagues, to engage In so much agl-
tation, and to create so much public dis
turhance OF opinion, before we can over
come the presistant and Interchangeable re
sistance which the Tory Party makes to
everything like liberal progress in the
Kingdom. ''Hear. hear, and APP
JhtSt -tAOIttotS 1T VIC iIfil tlIi-
other proof of the Interchangeable charac-
ter of that party I was in the House
of Commons when the present Reform
Bill was read a third time; and when the
Speaker put the question. That this bill
do now pass, and the ayes had it. aud
there was no division, and he declared
the bill had passed, than there was a
loud, cordial cheer from the side of the
House on which | SIT but so far as |
could dIscover-and | listened with atten-
tion-there was not even one, the, very
faintest cheer, from the Tory side of the
House. Loud laughter and applause.
A voice-"They were sorry for what
they had done. Renewed laughter.
The fact is. that so far as the Tory Party
are concerned, the bill is simply the child
Of the ambition and the strong viii Of
one man. Hear, hear. The Tory
Party itself is unchanged; and, during
the whole of those discussions, [ tell you
that | have not heard from the leader Of
the Tory party, or even from any of his
supporters who voted for the bill
have never heard word Of generous and
kindly sympathy expressed towards the
great mass of the population to whom
this bill is intended to give a share Of po-
Etical power. Hear, hear, and ironical
cries.
The party of progress in England has
no idea of resting on its arms after Its
victory. Mr.. Bright prociaims that it
must be vigorously followed up and the
fruits of it gathered The reform bill,
he says, is only an instrument for good,
not an end in itself. The new powers
which it gives to the people must be
welded wisely but enereticallv and faith
fully for the general good. To three
questions in particular, he says. the lib
erai party must now direct its attention
First in importance Is the question of
completing the work SO favorably begun
by putting every elector under the shell
ter of the ballot Voting is now rica
roce. The question of the ballot, Mr.
Bright says, should henceforth be made
test with candidates who present them
selves for the suffrage of the liberals and
be ceaselessly agitated till it is carried.
Next is the Irish question. Upon this
he says;
Will you let me tell you chat Ireland
was once an independent king don-that
within the lifetime of many here it had
an independent parliament-that at this
moment, united with Great Britain, it
requires about 40, 900 men-soldiers and
military policc-to keep the country quiz
ct, and to prevent Instruction, and, 1t
may be revolution. Cries of 'sShame.
What right have you to hold in subsection
by 10000 troops, paid out of your taxes.
people loud applause. who dislike
your Government, and who believe that
You have not done them justice? Hear
hear, and cheers. | heara talk, it is old
phroseoiogy-f 1t was common here
about seventy or eighty years age-about
our sacred institutions in Church and
State. tDerisive laughter Does any
tell thr,4 1 !!