Excerpt from Wit and Wisdom of Sir Wilfrid Lawson: Being Selections From His Speeches, 1865 1885, With a Biographical Sketch HE question of reform cannot die. It will rise again to haunt, and to annoy, and to overthrow any Minister or stry that dares to deal treacherously with it. We have no hope at all, events from the Tory party. (a voice: What I will tell you why. Because some few years ago when, through a political accident, the Conservative party, at the head of which was Lord Derby, came' into power, he announced to the world what was the policy on which he was going to act, and he (said he believed he had a mission to stem'the tide of democracy! Why, the efforts of Dame Partington, when she tried to stem the flood of the great Atlantic, was a joke to it. Is there any man who will believe that the working men of this country will for ever be excluded from a share in the representa tion of this country? If there be such a man I pity him. [carl'ealei My Zr 1865. 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.