This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. ABOLITION OF PURCHASE. Government supporters treat the Army Bill as a mere matter of military detail, that should be left entirely to the Executive, but this is not its true nature; it is a political rather than a military measure. Hear what Mr. McCullagh Torrens says of it: --"The whole ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. ABOLITION OF PURCHASE. Government supporters treat the Army Bill as a mere matter of military detail, that should be left entirely to the Executive, but this is not its true nature; it is a political rather than a military measure. Hear what Mr. McCullagh Torrens says of it: --"The whole patronage of the army is to be transferred to the Government from the neutral trusteeship in a Commander-in-Chief established by Mr. Pitt, and which has subsisted for well-nigh eighty years. The property qualifications for commissions is to be abolished without stipulation or condition of any kind, and the Government claim that the whole power of selection shall be henceforth placed at their disposal. The direction and control of the Militia, which in one shape or other had for centuries belonged to local authorities, wisely, as Bacon, Pirn, Summers, Walpole, Fox, Russell thought, has henceforth to be concentrated in the hands of Government." Now, this is not a measure of mere military detail, it is a great constitutional revolution--a leap in the dark that may affect the future of the country quite as much as the Reform Bill of 1868. It is not simply a question of getting rid of the purchase system, that is a comparatively small matter; it is what is to succeed it? What does it entail? Apparently it entails nothing less than placing the whole patronage of the army in the hands of the Ministry for the time being, that is, in the hands of the patronage Minister; in other words, the Government whip in the House of Commons. Now, does not this possibility open out a vision of national suffering that should make the most daring of our constitutional surgeons pause before using the knife? Can anything be conceived more dangerous to a free country...
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