Fifty Years of Agricultural Politics: Being the History of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, 1865 1915 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fifty Years of Agricultural Politics: Being the History of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, 1865 1915I have one explanation to offer. Throughout this book I have endeavoured to avoid importing party bias into any question under review. Holding no brief for either party, I have not hesitated to state plainly what seemed to me the halting action or the manifest ignorance displayed by both parties alike on various occasions. It has been pointed out to me by one or two friends, to whom I have shown portions of the manuscript, that the use of the term "Radical" as applied to one political party may be offensive to some of my readers. The term is not so intended, and it will be found that the expression is only used when reviewing the period commencing in 1906. I may be wrong, but the impression conveyed to my mind by events is that the Liberal party retired from the stage in 1905, and that its heritage has since been entered on by a party to which, as defined by the dictionary, the term I have used seems more appropriate.I could wish that this work had been entrusted to abler hands than mine - to some other who would have invested the subject with greater interest than it was within my capacity to supply. The book has been written at odd moments, in the face of several difficulties, and under pressure of time. If there be mistakes, I must plead the foregoing in extenuation. I owe many thanks to Mr. E. C. Lister-Kay, who has kindly read and corrected the proofs, and to Mr. W. T. Chadwin, who has given me much assistance and helped to prepare the index.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.