The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-26


young men sacrifice time and pleasure to
do that work, and the honest, painstaking
care for the national interest which is
brought to the consideration of every
bill that comes up TO IT,
The house of lords wants nothing
OF the nation, and, therefore, it is the only
candid and disinterested guardian OF the
peoples needs and resources. 1t has
never withstood the real desire of the
country, it has only stood between the
country and its impetuous and evanescent
follies. 1t mas given breathing time to it
and made it pause before taking head
long leap, but it has never opposed what
1t saw to be the the real and well-con-
sldered national will. 1t has done what
the American senate does, but it has not
done ii better than any elective senate can
do, because the moment any political body
is elective it has at once tendency to
servility, and is more or less open TO cause,
and be acted on by, corruption. As you
said yourself just now, it is only men who
have already position so great that moth
ing can make it greater who can govern
public life with no possible faint OF
Interior or personal motive. 1t is because
personal motives have crept in so insidi-
ously into English politics that they have
deteriorated in character SO greatly as they
have done in our time"
Every word you say only strengthens
my opinion that you should have taken a
part, and great part, in national life"
"You narrow public question to pri-
vate one-women always do. L know my
self, which you admit is rare, and l am
wholly untitled for public life as it is now
conducted in England; have views which
would appal even my own party. l think
that we should have the courage of our
opinions, and that we should not bid for
popularity by pretending that the mob is
our equal; we should have the courage to
demand that supremacy should go to the
fttest, and we should refuse to allow lg-
norance, drunkenness and poverty to call
themselves our masters. We should de-
clare that the minority is always more
likely to be in the right than the majority,
and that If generations OF culture, author
ity and courtesy do not make better
product than generations OF Ignorance,
servility and squalor, then let all claws
and learning, grace and manners die"
since they have proved themselves abso-
lutely useless. But we have not the cour-
age Of our opinions; we are all kneeling
in the mud and swearing that the mud is
higher than the stars. l for one will not
kneel, and therefore l tell YOU | have no
place in the public life OF my times"
Lady Sunbury was JeXed and irritated.
Il do not see that your eulogy of the
house of lords is in accord with your con-
demnation OF public life. Ii you have
chosen"
81 beg your pardon. say the house of
lords is more admirable and useful than
the people have the remotest idea of, who
think it only kind OF glass frame for
rearing the mushrooms OF prestige and
privilege. But think the house OF lords
would be truer to Itself if it had the cour-
age TO tell the people that it could govern
them, were it an absolute olgarchy, with
infinitely more honor abroad and pros
perity at home than they will ever get out
OF the professional politicians and the sal
aried agitators whom it sends up to West
minister"
al it did it would be swept away"
us that so sure? At all events, it
would fall with dignity. 1t is not dignified
to pass bills which it knows to be poison
Gus to the honor and welfare of the nation,
because it has the couteau la gorge of its
own threatened extinction. Courage is
the one absolutely necessary quality TO
an aristocracy; and know not why our
house should fear its own abolition. 1t is
the country which would suffer far more
than ourselves"
"Go to the house and say So"
"The house is not sitting" he replied
with little laugh, as he rose and walked
to one OF the windows. Opposite to the
window was a great cedar tree spreading
its dark shade over a velvet lawn. On
one of the boughs of the cedar a wood
dove was perched high up against the
sun; the light made the white and fawn
of his plumage look silvery and gold; he
was murmuring all sorts of sweet things
to his lady-love, visible to him though not
to his observer; he was perfectly, ideally
happy. Round the tree at the same
moment were flying three sparrows, fuss
ing, shrieking, quarrelling. The foremost
had straw in his beak, and the others
wanted II.
THE professional politicians" muir
INJURED Guilderoy. "The lover is wiser by
a great deal"
''That depends on what sort OF person
the lady is" said his sister, with some
unpleasantness in her tone.
"Not at all, said Guilderov. "She is to
him what he thinks her, at all events;
who wants more?"
And he continued to watch the dove
cooling and fluttering to the sunshine on
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"The dove wants a great deal more if he
is wise" said Lady Sunbury.
'If he is wise he is not half a lover" re-
piled Guilderoy. 'The sparrows are wise
in your sense and the worlds not in
mine"
~ wish you were like the sparrows."
you wish / were a professional poll
tican, or a salaried agitator? My dear
Iil6o What taste ~
81 wish you were anything but what you
are"
cones relatives invariably do"
Lady Sunbury went up to her brother
and put her hand in affectionate apology
on his should.
"You know what Imean. my dear. You
have such talents, such great opportunities,
so noble character. | cannot bear to
see them all thrown away on a woman"
He laughed, and moved a little away.
Every woman thinks a mans life
thrown away on another woman; when
a mans life is given to herself she thinks
it consecrated' to her. You always use
two vocabularies for yourself and your
neighbors."
Lady Sunbury turned away, offended
and silent.
Guilderoy still continued TO gaze dream
lily at the cedar with the birds in it, which
had furnished him with his metaphor.
Continued nert tceek