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To: nihil who wrote (2471)	1/26/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

Disbelieving in democracy, Robert Lowe thought that suffrage should depend on informed intelligence--in practice, on educational attainments. His defeat of the Reform Bill of 1866 caused the fall of Lord Russell's Liberal government. The Reform Act of 1867, which Lowe also opposed, was drafted by Benjamin Disraeli (afterward 1st Earl of Beaconsfield and twice prime minister), who was at that time chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby's Conservative government. While serving under Gladstone, Lowe capably administered the Treasury and supported the prime minister's reforms, but his abilities were offset by his lack of tact. He was created viscount in 1880. He had no children by either of his two marriages, and the viscountcy became extinct upon his death. The first Reform Bill primarily served to transfer voting privileges from the small boroughs controlled by the nobility and gentry to the heavily populated industrial towns. The two subsequent bills provided a more democratic representation by expanding voting privileges from the upper levels of property holders to less wealthy and broader segments of the population. The Second Reform Act, 1867, largely the work of the Tory Benjamin Disraeli, gave the vote to many workingmen in the towns and cities and increased the number of voters to 938,000. __________________ So imagine... who gets to vote on the issue of property taxes... those who own the property or those who rent it? Well.. both. Ah yes, but as they say... "no somos machos, pero somos muchos" ("We are not "machos", but we are many.) ~ Mexican folk saying... (more like a "warning") _______________ The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. ~ H. L. Mencken *****************