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Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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London and Westminster wages had not kept pace with the cost of living; and elderlyworkingmen were frequently without means and withoutemployment. Illness often deprives a laborer of his incomefor a time, and an accident may render him permanentlyunable to work at the trade that he is best prepared to follow.Poverty and These and other causes had brought millions tothe verge of actual want. Charitable men andwomen were doing much to relieve the distress,and organizations like the Salvation Army were workingfaithfully in the more impoverished sections of the largercities. But thinking men of all parties had begun to feel that measures forrelief. COUNTY MAP OF ENGLAND and WALE S Scale of Mies
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THE POLITICAL SITUATION 619 there could be no real improvement before the entire nationwas willing to bring systematic relief. 557. The Political Situation. While the Boer War wasstill in progress, the Unionist government had dissolved par-liament (1900) and appealed to the country. In the khakielections the patriotic British voters rallied about the candi-dates who were favorable to the government, and the Unionistswere returned to the house of commons in over- Attitude ofwhelming majority. Joseph Chamberlain was a the Unionists.power in the Unionist party, and he sympathized activelywith the cause of social reform; but most of the leaders of hisparty were more anxious to safeguard the rights of propertythan to vote funds for the relief of the poor. A. J. Balfour,who succeeded Lord Salisbury as prime minister in 1903,made a feeble move in the direction of reform with three billsthat were planned to relieve the distress. Two of these failedoutright and the third was amended to such an

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