Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — Bradlaugh on Beaconsfleld. [ARTICLE]

Bradlaugh on Beaconsfleld.

Charles Bradlaugh, the English radical, has been delivering a lecture in Northampton on “ India and Afghanistan,” in which the Beaconsfield administration is unsparingly condemned. He contends that, in a Country where the G eneva arbitration stands out as one step in a new course of life, there should be no more Avar until Parliament says “ Yes ” or “ No.” “ When I say Parliament,” he added, “ I mean our Parliament elected at a general election. The Parliament now sitting has no right to determine upon it. It was selected under the influence of our national church and our national beverage. It has nothing to do Avith the grave questions of this nature. Let there be a dissolution. The Parliament is old and dying. The Prime Minister is old and dying. The Government, if it is not dying, ought to die, for it is rotten from one end to the other. We have never had, in the whole history of our Parliamentary records, so many falsehoods deliberately stated by Ministers from their places in Parliament as have been stated during the last three years by the present Ministry. If anybody thinks I am too hard let him challenge me after I sit down, and I will name lie after lie uttered by men like Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury, and make good every word that comes from my mouth.”