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cause of parties , to neglect details , and to allow in one set of men worse conduct than that for which we brand and loathe other men . Declaim before a given number of operatives against useless p lacemen and Parliamentary charlatans : you shall have much applause . Good : but those very men who applaud your vague declamation will at the very same time maintain ,, with the
subscriptions they can so ill spare ., placemen and charlatans of their own ! Any one who has taken the trouble to inquire about the characters and pursuits of the loudest among the charlatans who have excited the ' operatives' to bawl for the restoration of the Whigs ,, and then to get up trades unions to oppose those Whigs , will agree with me , that the great majority of those bawlers
are not operatives . One buys coffee m the berry and sells it in the beverage ; another buys the labour of operative printers and sells it in the form of unstamped newspapers ,, redolent of ignorance , violence ,, and cupidity ; another keeps a dirty gin-shop ; one hawks smutty publications from door to door ; another throws
aside the needle which he is too lazy to use , for the secretary ' s pen he is not fit for , or for the treasurer's cash-box he is very fit —to abscond with ! And these are the people who say to the operatives 4 our cause , our interests , our rights , our labour V Faugh !
Many of the most popular demands—now , as in Charles ' s time —are calculated to provoke opposition , but not to do any material good if granted ;—many things are denied by the Ministers which they could grant usefully to the people , usefully to their own popularity , and usefully to the preservation of public order
AND COURT SAFETY . Do I impute wickedness to either people or Ministers ? Not so : but I impute—now , as in Charles ' s time—error to both
PARTIES . One instance of the error of Ministers will suffice , for the present , to illustrate what I have hitherto said . Before the Whigs got into power the c taxes on knowledge * seemed to stink in their very nostrils . How is it that they have not taken off those monstrous taxes ? Those of their adherents
to whom these taxes—for though less obvious than the stamp duty the paper tax and post tax are no trifles—give a monopoly , furnish them with an argument—i . e . ' that if the stamp-duty were remitted or greatly reduced , tag , rag , and bob-tail would become our best public instructors ; * and thus the people would be laid open to the ill advice of crude theorists , sham philanthropists , and
pennylcss desperadoes . The Ministers have not taken up this sapient argument : they are quite right ! They know perfectly well that all that is ignorant , hypocritical , and desperate , has been nursed into feculent mischievousness b y the stamp duty . They know that cheapness clQes not necessarily imply ignorance or sedition ; and they know , or ought to be told , that politics as
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 767, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/21/
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