The life and speeches of the Right Honourable John Bright, . happened that the working classes, ingreat numbers, should reach an occupancy of ;^y, so that ultimatelyit might be even equal to a household suffrage in the bill would not be final, but it would do for a time. It hadbeen said that this bill was his bill, but he had not been able tofind a point of the measure which he had recommended. He neverwas in favour of a ^6 franchise, and would never have proposedit; he believed in a household franchise. But a ;^y franchise wasoffered, and beggars could not be choosers. The £1
The life and speeches of the Right Honourable John Bright, . happened that the working classes, ingreat numbers, should reach an occupancy of ;^y, so that ultimatelyit might be even equal to a household suffrage in the bill would not be final, but it would do for a time. It hadbeen said that this bill was his bill, but he had not been able tofind a point of the measure which he had recommended. He neverwas in favour of a ^6 franchise, and would never have proposedit; he believed in a household franchise. But a ;^y franchise wasoffered, and beggars could not be choosers. The £10 limit wasregarded by some as the salvation of the country, and all thepresent horrors arose because it was proposed to reduce thefranchise in boroughs by ^i lower than was recommended byMr. Henly and Mr. Walpole. Mr. Bright condemned the savings-bank franchise, which hethought was the worst of all the fancy franchises ever objected altogether to giving the franchise to one man, andshutting it out from another—that second man, it may be, being. RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BEAC OTSTS FIELD Thomas 1866.] THE REFORM CAMPAIGN. 491 far more heroic than the other. The system was hable to theutmost inequality, and to a species of fraud which could not beprevented. He did not believe that so many working men as wasestimated would be placed upon the register by this measure—thenumbers were greatly exaggerated. With reference to the coursetaken in the debate on the bill by Mr. Horsman and Mr. Lowe,the hon. member commented on the announcement by Mr. Lowein 1859 of the expediency of reducing the franchise, and said theright hon. gentleman must have a very short memory when hetrifled with the House. He was afraid that when men changedtheir opinions after fifty years of age, there was not much chanceof their turning back again. He could not with much hope appealto Mr. Lowe, or to his colleague Mr. Horsman, and he did notknow whether he could
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