To smuggle past the barrier of this House

An article so plainly contraband

As this unlicens'd and contagious Bill—

A Bill which, it is not too much to say,

Insults the conscience of the British Empire?

I will not longer, Sir, detain the House;

Indeed I cannot profitably add

To what I said in 1892.

Speaking at Manchester I used these words:—

"If in the inconstant ferment of their minds