"Your promise was to
bring the question before Parliament in connection with the vast and
increasing number of unemployed. You are within your rights in doing
so, and to speak frankly we insist upon it, or we ask for your
resignation."
"Are you speaking with authority, young man?" Mr. Henslow asked.
"Of course I am. I am the representative of the Liberal Parliamentary
Committee, and I am empowered to say these things to you, and more.
"Well, I'll do the best I can to get a date," Mr. Henslow said,
grumblingly, "but you fellows are always in such a hurry, and you don't
understand that it don't go up here. We have to wait our time month
after month sometimes."
"I don't see any motion down in your name at all yet," Brooks remarked.
"I told you that Sir Henry struck it through."
"Then I shall call upon him and point out that he is throwing away a
Liberal seat at the next election," Brooks replied. "He isn't the sort
of man to encourage a Member to break his election pledges."
"You'll make a mess of the whole thing if you do anything of the sort,"
Henslow declared.
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