Excerpt from Ten Years of Tory Government: 1895-1905; Home Affairs; A Handbook for the Use of Liberals Such a report was worthy of discussion. It is not unimportant to know, before you fight, with whom your fight will be. Mr. Balfour never read the report, and thought we were as likely to have to fight the Orange Free State as Switzerland. Mr. Chamberlain either shared Mr. Balfour's ignorance or kept him in it. The Education Act is another instance of carefully. nurtured and far-reaching ignorance. It has already broken down. Compromises are possible things, and often useful, but the Act of 1902 gave more to the Church of England than ten years ago the most grasping of ecclesiastics would have thought it wise even to suggest, whilst it took away from' the Nonconformists what had been given them by the compromise of 1870. And Mr. Balfour is as astonished at the anger of the Nonconformist as he was to find himself at war with the Orange Free State! Mr. Chamberlain has split the party he did so much to create eighteen years ago, and now seeks a fresh alliance with the Protectionist section of the old Tory party. This conduct has, of course, lent excitement to the situation - the cards are being shuffled afresh, and an old enemy sometimes makes a nice, new friend - but Liberals will do well if they stand by their old friends, and make a careful study of the character and achievements of the Administration now rapidly foundering on the rocks. Is any portion of it worth saving? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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