Excerpt from Letters to My Neighbours on the Present Election England - the predominant partner in this great firmof the United Kingdom - England, which gave the Liberals a great majority in 1906, gave a majority o] 14 for the Lords and against the Budget. All the country districts in England, with some exceptions in the North and West, those districts which actually know the peers, their general character as landlords, and their work on the different bodies that carry on the local business of the country - the whole of Hertfordshire, the whole of Sussex, the whole of Kent and Surrey, the majority of the counties everywhere gave a verdict for the Lords. In England alone, the Unionists - defending the Lords, and attacking the Budget - had, I repeat, a majority of 14. This was the work mainly of the counties, of those parts of England, as I have said, which know the peers and the great landlords in everyday life, and by personal contact, while the towns only know them by hearsay, and are too often at the mercy of the silly arid violent things that Radical speakers and writers choose to say about them for party purposes. 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.