The evolution of Euripides from a pro-Boer into a League of Nations ...

The evolution of Euripides from a pro-Boer into a League of Nations lecturer began about the same time.

'But who is to decide what the welfare of the State allows? And when you have admitted every man to vote, delivered the Welsh tithe-payer from his parson, unsettled your own settlement of 1870, and destroyed whatever faint preponderance our constitution gives to education and property at the polls, what is there left for you to do? Will you deliver the poor man from the rich man, or will you be satisfied with watering his lager? And are you so sure that we are not nearer the heart of the matter than you? If you gave the labouring man his vote, who first stood up on behalf of the labouring children? Who made their schooling free ? If you took the people at large into partnership in government-and we could say something about your disfranchisement in 1832 and our re-enfranchisement in 1867-who gave them the administrative organs by which their welfare is assured? If you emancipated the Jews, who emancipated the Trade Unions?' 'We own that we were behind you in some matters, as you were behind us in others.

But we are ready to learn the lesson of our times.

We have ceased to be Whigs. We no longer hold by the pre-eminent sanctity of property.