ABSTRACT
The reason against having a House of Commons try to compel business men to be good, by law, is its out-of-the-way position. The out-of-the-way position that a Parliament occupies in getting business men to be good, can be best considered, perhaps, by admitting at the outset that a government really is one very real and genuine way a great people may have of expressing themselves, of expressing what they are like and what they want, and that business is another way. Business is the occupation of finding out and anticipating what the wants of the English people really are, and of finding out ways of supplying them. The business men in Oxford Street hire twenty or thirty thousand men and women, keep them at work eight or nine hours a day, five or six days in a week, finding out what the things are that the English people want, and reporting on them and supplying.
