Lord Hartington also dwelt on the fact that the new
Glad- stonian programme is not businesslike, because it embodies a great deal too much, even without reference to Home-rule. If Diseatablishment, and a new Reform Bill based on the "One man, one vote" principle, are to be carried, it is idle to expect that there would be time for the social reforms on which so much stress is now laid, An incomplete scheme that can be really carried into effect is much more useful than a complete scheme which must be bung up. The friends of education say, for example, that the Free Education Bill is incomplete. Well, the Government were quite right in making it incomplete, if its incompleteness only meant that they wished to defeat the schemes of those who, "however much they may love free education, hate religious education more." And, as head of the Labour Commission, Lord Hartington formally announced his desire and intention to make its Report a thoroughly practical document on which useful legislation could be founded.
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