ABSTRACT

T t i 1907, in the Mouse of Commons, Bonar Law said: 'I think it is vely unreasonable and mo5t unfair that the large fortunes wl~ich are niatle in t l~ is country out of the cocoa industrics should be usctl, as they arc, to suhsirli7e tlcwspaprrs and to finance mcmhcrs of patliament wllosc i ~ l f l ~ ~ c n c c is used to prevent otller peoplc getting tlre same advantagcs as they tlie~nselves enjoy.'