The iniquity of slavery / William Pitt -- The assertors of liberty / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A plea for catholic emancipation / Sydney Smith -- Parliamentary Reform / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The chartist movement / Thomas Attwood -- The employment of children / Lord Ashley -- Corn law rhymes / Ebenezer Elliott -- The repeal of the corn laws / Sir Robert Peel -- The need for improved education / Richard Cobden -- Tory Democracy / Benjamin Disraeli -- Appeal for justice / Charles Bradlaugh -- The artist and intellectural as a socialist / William Morris -- The poor: a proposed solution / William Booth -- The problem of the house of lords / the earl of rosebery -- The budget and the people / David Lloyd George