The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 203
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 203: Or Critical Journal; For January, 1906 April, 1906; To Be Continued Quarterly So wrote Lord Goschen as President of the Statistical Society in 1887; and so his words are printed in the admirable collection of papers that he has recently brought together into a single volume. The warning was just. The ´copious examples have not been wanting. During the last three years, statistical data have been showered from thousands of platforms upon zealous and untrained audiences by orators as zealous and scarcely more instructed. Nor has the ignorance, misstatement, misrepresentation, so lamentably apparent, been confined to one party in the great fiscal controversy. Popular audiences affect strong speech. Exaggeration was demanded, and the demand has been supplied. The political leader has been abroad in the land, and has almost warranted the bitterness of M. Le Bon: ´Le meneur peut etre quelquefois intelligent et instruit; mais cela lui est generalement plus nuisible qu´utile. En montrant la complexite des choses, en permettant d´expliquer et de comprendre, l´intelligence rend toujours indulgent, et emousse fortement l´intensite et la violence des convictions necessaires aux apotres.´ On no aspect of the controversy, perhaps, have the misstatements been so numerous as on the relation of Tariff Reform to the fortunes of the labouring classes. Again and again Mr. Chamberlain has dealt with that subject. His gospel never wavers. His ´mathematical certainty´ never falters. At Glasgow the torch was lighted. The message flashed through Greenock, Newcastle, Liverpool: ´I call upon the working classes of this country to wake up. I call upon them to demand that they shall be defended against the unfair and unequal competition which, during the last thirty years, has taken thirty millions of wages out of their pockets, in order to put it into the pockets of their competitors.´ On the banner of Tariff Reform, in a place of honour beside ´Think Imperially, is inscribed ´Help for the Working Man.´ Tactically it is an excellent device. The Mail parades the misery of great hosts whose speedy multiplication not Falstaff´s men in buckram rivalled. Exaggeration matters nothing. 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.
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