Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Queen Victoria notified uf iikk Accession * Great Britam and her Empire 653 navigation laws and protective duties were done away with. Inrecent years there has been a growing agitation in favor ofdeserting free trade and of restoring protective duties, onthe ground that English goods have to pay duties whenthey reach foreign lands where protective tariffs are in Fig. 168. Ewart Gladstone The Conservatives — or, as they had come to be calle
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Queen Victoria notified uf iikk Accession * Great Britam and her Empire 653 navigation laws and protective duties were done away with. Inrecent years there has been a growing agitation in favor ofdeserting free trade and of restoring protective duties, onthe ground that English goods have to pay duties whenthey reach foreign lands where protective tariffs are in Fig. 168. Ewart Gladstone The Conservatives — or, as they had come to be called,the Unionists — were (except for a short period) in power fortwenty years, from 1886 to 1906, and interest in general reformseemed to have died out in England. But in 1906 a general The Liberalselection took place and the Liberals, reenforced by a new labor igi^e-ToHparty and the Irish Nationalists, came into control of the House 6s4 Medieval and Modem Times of Commons. A new period of reform then began which con-tinued until it was interrupted by the outbreak of the generalEuropean war in The parties in power agreed that something must be done to relieve the poverty in which it was found that a greatpart of the pepulatien lived. Bills were introduced providing reforms
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