... onwards the Prime Minister, whom they are supposed greatly to influence. Yet, as we all know, they have simply played the part of Whig tools, throwing overboard every political and social principle, merely for the sake of keeping in office. They promise great ...

... cannot make a profit out of your labour, your privileges as a democrat are not worth much. If you vote for Tory or Conservative, Whig, Liberal or Radical, will the return of any of these political tricksters to Parliament raise your wages, feed, clothe, house ...

... those ci us who had most faith in progress as an idea, the outlook seemed to be nothing better than a dreary waste of perpetual Whig-Liberal rule, feeble and pedantic, except where coercion was dealt out with a liberal hand to the Irish, desperate at the new ...

... like Gordon to Khartoum,as a sort of forlorn hope for the Government. It is about time a Whig ran some risk on his own account, alike personal and political. Whigs generally take very good care of themselves in both respects. But what is our ex-Viceroy ...

... aristocrats of birth. The programme of the Trade Union Congress is Conservative enough at any rate for the wealthiest of young Whigs. The Duke of Rutland having in the course of his long life enclosed thousands of acres belonging to the people has opened ...

... ? What are our political differences but the differences of our self-styled ' betters'? Can the political differences of a Whig and a Tory (that is a middle-class man and an upperclass man), he reaUy the political differences of a bricklayer sor a plasterer ...

... aliases for Whigism and Toryism, they still apply to the self same factions which exist for the very same ends as when plain Whig and Tory were deemed sufficient. Whigism and Toryism, then, are mere nicknames of the iBth century, the result of the animosity ...

... those that are left will turn out to be only peculiarly stu?id Tories, masquerading in the cast-off clothes of the extinct Whigs. WILLIAM MORRIS. ...

... in the event of hostilities is one that comes home to every household. Yet still our faction-fighters—Tory and Conservative, Whig, Liberal, and Radical—spout away north and south, east and west, regardless of the misery of the workers at home, for whose ...

... sufficient remuneration for his services as Home Secretary. What then are National-Liberals ? To us they read uncommonly like Old Whigs writ large. Is there one single useful or necessary duty performed by the Capitalists to-day which the people organised could ...

... with Whigs or capitalist- Liberals, it was felt, would be treachery to the cause of democracy, and would discourage the advanced party throughout the country. And now Henry Fawcett is dead, and these very Radicals accept a commonplace semi-Whig Professor ...

... landlords of the Royal Commission, should be looked into, and their wrongs redressed. But the influence of the great Scotch Whig families, headed by the Duke of Argyll, has been too strong ; the Government has been utterly indifferent ito anything but ...