(A LONG WAY AFTER LORD TENNYSON.)
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"Were I to go further into detail, I should show you that the
floodgates of (financial) abuse have been opened even to a
much larger extent than I have described. We are getting into
a system under which Parliament is treated, and the country is
treated, to the exhibition of fictitious surpluses of revenue
over expenditure."--_Mr. Gladstone (at Hastings) on Mr.
Goschen's Finance._