A Great Labour Leader
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A Great Labour Leader: Being a Life of the Right Hon. Thomas Burt, M. P When addressing the boys of Trinity College School, at Port Hope, in Canada, a few weeks since, Earl Grey, the Governor-General, said: "The finest gentleman I ever knew was a working miner in England, whose gentleness, absolute fairness, instinctive horror of anything underhand or mean, or anything that was not the strictest fair-play, gave him a character that enabled him to rise to the position of Privy Councillor." It is the life of this working miner that, as to its main facts, is narrated in these pages. It has been difficult to bring the material together. Most public men, I believe, keep some sort of record of themselves, however fragmentary. Mr. Burt appears to have supposed that no such record would ever be required. The idea of a biography of himself has been far from his mind at all times. He has kept no scrapbooks, no cuttings from newspapers, no reports of his speeches. He has said, indeed, "I have forgotten all the speeches I ever delivered. It is more satisfactory that one´s audiences should remember them." Many of Mr. Burt´s speeches have been very well remembered, and I have made large use of them in these pages. Wherever I could, I have made him speak for himself. Few men speak better - hardly any that I know of; and therefore I have not aimed so much at explaining him as at giving his explanation of himself in his own words. 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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