نسخة من كلمة بعنوان "الإمبراطورية ومسؤولياتها" ألقاها لويس بيلي في نادي هامستيد الدستوري بتاريخ ٦ أبريل ١٨٩٢ [و‎‎١‎٣] (٤٠/٢٥)

nave s3Q n men rise "to speak on Empire — its resources
ciiid adminlstration — who forthwith displayed their ig-
norance of the very A,B.C. of details of principles:
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Men who have never seen a day 1 s danger or done one day's
real work for the Empire, and who yet dictate to or pre
tend to govern those who have borne the sweat and burden
of the age.' Men who far from being Statesmen or Ad
ministrators could not in the hour of peril be entrusted
with a corporal's guard or the management of a Parish.
But then it is said we won the day under old Nelson,
and we should win it again now. I submit that the condi
tions of the two cases are different. In the time of the
Napoleonic wars it took less time to build a line of
battle-ships than it now takes to build one of our bi^
guns, while the cost of a Man of War was insignificant
as compared with that of one of our huge iron-clads.
Our ships at the opening of the century might be counted