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government against the democratic leaders , we quote the fqllajrJLjig words : .,.. , ,,, „ .. „
4 Hitherto the ruling erf in England has been , " thai tbot « wWtfcfctk rmirt govern those who toH . ff And thereupon it has been asramed * tfcot all-those who do not toil necessarily think . We deny the asstwiption and the conclusion drawn from it . They who toil may think , and b » * o instructed as to be capable of taking a useful . as well as active part in politics . I do not mean by this that the mechanic is to turn legislator , though I conceive him far better fitted for the task than the idle , ignorant , extravagant , demoralized , high-born , and self-constituted legislators that have but too often been our rulers . But I seek to make
him an instructed and careful witness of the legislator ' s proceedings ; to give him , in the last resort , a control over the legislator ' s conduct ; and , by instructing , render him capable of truly appreciating it , —approving "where the legislator is right—blaming where he is wrong . It is oecatfse we seek this , that the cry will be raised against us ; it is for this that we shall be called lovers of anarchy and confusion . ! 1
But we are accused of wishing to destroy the influence of the rwh . * * m * If this means the influence that a rich and really instructed and benevolent man would attain by the beneficial employment of his wealth ; if it should mean the love and esteem voluntarily offered to t&e powerful when good and wise , we then say , that our efforts will in no way tend to diminish it . An instructed people would bring to the good man an obedience of the heart and of the hand . His influence would
be that of his understanding over theirs , not of his imperious will pver their slavish ones . ' The man who writes thus , and acts up to his writings , may well deserve to be called the people ' s friend . There is an Appendix to this Number , with a needlessly long account of the in and out of office changes of the opinions of John Cam Hobhouse , Henry Parnell , and William Henry Ord . It tends to prove that the political morality of official people is of a very low standard .
The second pamphlet is on the subject of the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill , which is thoroughly analysed and 'Commented on in a clear , forcible , and simple style , adapted to the plainest understanding . Stripped of its verbiage , the subject is open to the comprehension of all men capable of understanding the rules of a benefit society . The defects of the bill are as plainly stated as its advantages , and only one important subject is left unnoticed—the annual payment of the town councilloifc-The public are not yet sufficiently alive to the importance of paying for the maintenance of their legislators . They pay the executors of the laws enormous salaries , and leave the makers of the laws to exist as they can . Thus we have amateur lawmakers instead of men of business , and the public have no ri g ht to complain that bad laws are made . It is not yet an established axiom , * to look the gift-horse in the mouth / as well as the purchased tme . * Pamphlet the third is entitled * The Stamped Frees of London
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The Rottmck Pamphlet * . 549
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No . 104 . 2 R
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/49/
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