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III.
Mr.. Chamberlain made hut little efrort during
his frat sessio, IN bring bimself prominentIv
berore the House OF Commons. His maiden
speech was delivered on Aug. 4. 1875. on an ele-
mentary education bill. a subject with which
he WA, thoroughly Acquainted. The second oc-
casion on which he add rea,ed IN, Uou.e was in
the following February. and the subisct. tb,
Prisons bill. was again one on which his admin
istrative experience entitled him 10 A respectful
hearing. In any event. his habitual association
with Radicals of Sir Charles bikes color
would have assured to him the interest
that proceeds from curiosity. IL In certain.
however. that just at this time Mr.. Chamber.
lain was a person not precisely unwelcoms
10 the Conservatives vbateyer be NAV have
become 1--we years later. They fixed upon him as
. candid representative of the ultimate tendency
of radicalism. the enfapt terrible, of n dreaded
school, whose declarations and admis s.ons could
be used against it whenever they wished to
warn and brighten timid electors. Moreover.
conspicous ability. from whatever Quarter it
comes, and the capacity of rendering. through
personal experience, assistance to mportantdis-
cussions, Is necessarily appreciated on all sides
in every deliberative ssembly But to under
IL buuJ6C On uIC YOU . 10 ~ nGRIu
is only one of the two ways of getting the ear of
the House; the other is always TO speak to the
point, That was the most distinctive mark of
Mr.. Chamberiain's earlier essays In debate. He
seldom interfered In a discussion unless he could
contribute to It some formatio not possessed
by most of the audience. and he slway. stated IT,
in language that they could follow. He in
structed tho House without lecturine it. His
chief excursion into abstract politics was an
attempt to persuade the House of Commons. as
he had previously persuaded tho BIRMINGHAM
Town Council, that something like the Gothen-
burg system. though not i'd entIcaI with IL. shopld
be tried In England. 1t cannot be said that the
scheme produced much Impression on the Hou.e
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topics. Before the dissolution of the Beacons-
field Parliament in 1880 he had identified his
name with q number of important questions
which could only be understood nv n politician
who did not mind the trouble of getting nm a
host of complicated facts. Had he confned him
self, however. to matters Of detailIhe might mar
haps have got himself labelled as at for them
and nothing better. Tho man of facts and 6g.
ures is OF tremely useful to a Government and
he ia always sure of a place when his marty
comes into office. But e. is-oenerallv n sphor-
dtnate place. Mr.. Chamberlain bad inn ipten-
ton of being reckoped among the minor nl.c.-
men of a Ministry. the u~npromoteble Iypdsr
Sac re,aries He considered himself a man ~
rank and vbne xorkino mn tho ad-
miptstrative oueations which ch,eav fall rnd.r
tho Board ofTrade be also proved.bis ability IN
take mart in a fuu.dresz aehata DARING tbo.,
vears OF hi, novitiate p.rlIament wa. thinLino
cbiedv NJ ths Ea.tsrn oua.tion and ~ Sor,h
Africa. On both those controversial ,on,cs NJ.
went ,,ronu,v again,t the Conssrva,Ivs cov.rn-
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