The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 182

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 182: For July, 1895, to October, 1895The depression we have now been witnessing for two or three years, and which the authorities agree appears to be beginning to pass away, illustrates these characteristics of human nature. Only the other day even Lord Salisbury spoke of the idle capitalist on the one side and the half~ starved labourer on the other, unable to come together owing to discredit, as if the bulk of capital, or all but an infinitesimal percentage, was in fact idle, or as if the masses of the community, again all but a very small percentage, were not in fact employed. The world is also full of the lamentations of bimetallists, whether they declaim sono rously like Mr. Chaplin, or utter mild jeremiads like Mr. Everett or Mr. Samuel Smith, whose gentle bleatings about disappearance of profits and losses, in agriculture and trade, of sums many times greater than the National Debt, astonish perhaps even the astuter politicians like Mr. Balfour, with whom they are allied. T the beginning of the present parliamentary session, the House of Commons with a half belief assented to Mr. Keir Hardie's appeal for measures to deal with 'millions of unemployed, by giving him a. Committee on Distress for Want of Employment. The committee promptly reported against his summary remedies, but there has been no similar committee for many years, although they used to be common enough before the present half-century began. The appointment of such a committee emphasises the success which the complaints of industrial depression and of want of employment have at last obtained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.