Note 100 — Chapter XXI · THE REIGN OF JINGOISM.
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Even in 1877 some of the Tory squires were practising the old stupid method of obstruction, e.g., Mr. Orr Ewing and Sir William Anstruther put down 250 Amendments to the Scotch Roads and Bridges Bill—most of which, when not frivolous, were unpopular and reactionary. Such obstruction was, of course, easy to deal with.