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Excerpt from Memories of Midland Politics 1885-1910 The quarter of a century from 1885 to 1910, starting with the county franchise and redistribution of seats, and closing with the rejection of a boldly democratic budget, and the Parliament Act limiting the powers of the Lords, was one of those periods of transition when new ideas and new forces come into play, and move things rapidly on, from one stage of national evolution to another. At such times there are those who fear and those who hope. Those who hoped were probably in the right. For the England of to-day is visibly and tangibly not less but more capable of lofty ideals and heroic efforts than the England of thirty years ago. This book is an attempt to throw light on the story of those years and the actual operation of the ideas and forces which brought about these immense modifications of political and social life from month to month and year to year. It has been sought to present the political temper and outlook of that time in the concrete, in the freshness and intense vitality of day-by-day demands and protests, criticisms and enthusiasms, and in the thoughts and words of the men of the moment and at the moment. 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.