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1829 Aug. 5
Reformists reviewed
Severn River(2) (2
Anti reformists
Pseudo-Reformists
Eldon and Peel
2
To stave off reform
a fork with two prongs
1 Commissions. 2 Bills
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The staving off reform a fork with two prongs, as Horace
would have phrased it (a) as provided by them the appointed
artists. Name of the one prong, Commissions: name of the
other prong, Bills. Purpose and use of the commissions,
staving keeping off all reform: purpose and use of the Bill, setting
up sham-reform in the room of it
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First employed Commission
Main use keeping out
reform Collateral use
patronage.
First employed was the Commission system: this had
a double use main use, keeping out reform; collateral use
bringing in power and money and adulation in the shape of
power, money or moneys worth and adulation as in an
word patronage.
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So the bills but
patronage in this
case trifling
The same double use had moreover the Bills: for
patronage is an object never to be neglected. But here too
and in much larger proportion, the main use was the obstacling
of real reform: occupying encumbering by a mass of rubbish, portions of the place
the spot which it on which it should have been erected
As to the patronage, in comparison of that produced attested by the
Commissioners, it was (so we shall see) a mere craft
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