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Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects, Delivered During 1849
Speeches on Peace Financial Reform Colonial Reform and Other Subjects Delivered During 1849 Author:Richard Cobden General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: Gilbert Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acces... more »s to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Speech delivered at the Financial Reform Meeting, in the Music Hall, Leeds, on Thursday, April the 12th -- Mr. J. G. Marshall, M. P., for Leeds, in the chair. Mr. Cobden spoke as follows: -- Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, -- I am sorry to say, that, being a little out of practice, and having had last night occasion to address an assembly of friends who met atWakefield, I feel myself rather hoarse, and quite incapable of speaking to you except in a conversational way. Still, as we are met here to talk over, in a business-like meaner, the affairs of the state, we shall, I daresay, be able to get on, by preserving the conversational tone. Our situation now, as a people, seems to me like that of certain railway shareholders. They have had occasion to call meetings of the proprietors to appoint committees of inquiry into the management of the directors: and the people of England have also had their public meetings, to form financial reform associations, to inquire into the conduct of the Government. And really I think it was high time; for the resolution which has been moved, in the sentiment of which I cordially concur, has correctly told us that, since 1835, the public expenditure of the coTintry has been increased nearly 10,000,000. It was quite .£10,000,000 when we began to appoint these committees to inquire. That is, the increase La our expenditure since 1835 is much greater than the whole expenditure of the federal government of the United States for the government of 20,000,000 of people. Well, how has this arisen ? Some people a...« less