When Lord Derby succeeded to office, he found our Estimates at a lower point than they had before reached since the Crimean war; and it is a rather singular and certainly not an uninstructive coincidence, that when the economists have brought down our expenditure to the lowest point, their success is always signalized by a War Or a Crisis.

I can understand that there are certain circumstances, such as the circumstances of a War Or a Crisis, where events make necessary an enormous rapidity of legislation, and it just must be rushed through.

There has never been a War Or a Crisis without its origin and its cause being disputed and befogged by a haze of propaganda from the start, and that is what has happened this time.