Speech on the Budget by the Hon. Sir George E. Foster, K. C. M. G., Minister of Trade and Commerce, in the House of Commons, Thursday, February 17, 1916 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Speech on the Budget by the Hon. Sir George E. Foster, K. C. M. G., Minister of Trade and Commerce, in the House of Commons, Thursday, February 17, 1916 Summing these certainties up, thought ful 'men say that the year which comes with the introduction of conferences for peace will possibly be the most strenuous, the most dangerous, and the most fatal year of the whole period from a business point of view. So, we cannot look for anything less than those burdens, and those dislocations, and those difficulties 4 trade. We must make up our minds to face them, and we must frame measures which will enable us to face them. Then there will be the social changes that have taken place. In this war prince and peasant, rich and poor, have fought side by side, have eaten side 'by side, and have died side by side. Masses and classes havc coalesced, naked. Virile manhood has been the basis of valuation, old preju dices and rancours have passed away, old Shibboleth-s of class distinctions have been forgotten, and you will have a different world in Great l'ritain. And in almost every other country that is engaged in this war, because of changes in social conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.