SPEECHES AT POLITICAL MEETINGS —SPEECH OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN AT BIRMINGHAM—"RANSOM."

HC Deb 23 February 1886 vol 302 c1018

VISCOUNT GRIMSTON

gave Notice that he would, on Thursday, ask the President of the Local Government Board, Whether the following words from the speech delivered by him at Birmingham on January 5, 1885, and published in the authorized edition of his speeches, were correctly reported:— But then, I ask, what ransom will property pay for the security it enjoys, what substitute will it find for the natural rights which have ceased to be recognized? Society is banded together in order to protect itself against the instincts of those of its members who would make very short work of private ownership if left alone; and whether, having regard to the utterances of the Social Democratic leaders on the occasion of the recent riots, the right hon. Gentleman still adhered to that opinion?

THE PRESIDENT (Mr. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN)

In order to save the time of the House, I beg to say that the extracts now read are perfectly correct, and that I adhere to them.