Working Classes. Chamberlain : Masters electorally, 32 ; change in views
of, on going to Colonies, 33 ; threatened above all others by foreign trade
relations, 49 ; suffering has been nothing to what it will be, 51 ; efforts to
ameliorate condition of, by industrial legislation, good in themselves, but fiitile
if unfair competition encouraged, 50-6, 221-4 ; decision rests with the people
— Burke's remark, 58 ; proportion of workmen in receipt of pauper relief
when 65 years of age, 162 ; why working men should support the pro-
posals, 218 ; the most numerous class, 218 ; now, as always, patriots, 219 ;
employment the whole problem for, 219 ; neither represented nor consulted when
Free Trade carried out, 219-245. Balfour : Danger of alliance between trusts and
capital will fall with heaviest weight on, 19. Asquith : Comparison of position with
that of German working classes, 65. Ritchie : Position in this country and in Germany
compared, ?i(>.>i Foivler : Their position compared with 20 years ago, 93. Rosebery -. Con-
dition of Dorset labourer and Paisley artisan in 1849, ill ; material well-being of work-
ing classes weighed against the conception of Empire, 117; their accumulated savings,
297. Goschen : Fed more cheaply here than in France or Germany, 1 34 ; proposed
transfer of taxation constitutes bargain with, 139 ; wages 20 per cent, lower in
Germany than here, 140. Hamilton : Can any Government adhere to bargain made
with ? 196. Harcourt : When Free Trade introduced, spirit ol working classes
demanded it (reply to Mr. Chamberlain), 235 ; every labour leader in House of
Commons hostile to taxation of food, 235.
