The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-16
LONDON IS LAUGHING YET
The Farce in the House of Lords
Friday Night.
AristosratIc Jays Who Guffawad at Old
Jokes and Killed the Home Rule Bill
Without Even Pretending to
Consider the Matter.

Importance OF the thing Will be ome
what lost sight of. Whether bitterness
and sternness may be imported into
the struggle later on, it must be adj
mitted that John Bull enters upon this
greatly advertised life and death con-
test like the bogie man of hereditary
privilege, with q broad grin on his well
known rubicund visage. II really has
been extraordinarily funny.
Something like a fifth of the whole
number of performers had never been
inside the chamber of peers until last
Tuesday. To fully one-half the re-
mainder it was almost as unfamiliar.
The titled strangers whipped up to
London from their grouse and partridge
and, denied v the sacred solace
of st. Leger, swarmed into the cor-i-
doris of the house of lords on Tuesday
in droves like rustics on a personally
conducted o through the sights of
the metropolis. Policemen had to be
stationed at every turn in the passages
to show them the way to the
eel Of their deliberations. As
for identifying them, that was quite
beyond the powers of the servants
of the house. Apparently any elderly
farmer wearing a owe coat with side
pockets could pass freely in and take
his seat without aquestion. This bu-
collie effect colored the whole assem-
blage In Difference to the occasion all
Wore black coats, but their sunburnt,
heavy faces, huge red hnndkerchiefs
and " n wi xS,n t.l ,,nStr1raS lYnrf rnrt,nt.
ually suggesting that they ought in
stead to be in tweeds and CATERS. Lon
don thinks of peers mostly as carefully
dilly and the Row. But in this great
full of well tailored men of the world
was. fairly showed under by serried
masses of countrifled squires.
This effect of hayseed was by no
means confined to appearances. No
tub humping ~demagogue could have
wished for q more a~rtless, unsophistica-
ted audience. They laughed wildly at
bald old elementary jokes which wen
the drivers of four wheelers wearied of
q decade ago. They stared at such
speakers as strove to discuss the home
rule bill on the grounds of logic, law
ana conseltueiohhi Preceueht. but
Wheh u chehper sort, IKE Sranprook,
rose II SIMPLY went Tor Gladstone as
a mar, traitor m lunatlc and
spat on the lrlsh' trampleo them under
ioot us murderers, alien
scum IL NTH, then they
oeilowed out great voileTs OF
Hear IKE the roar OF their
prize bulls " home. Ihey listened
WIN obvious atnazement 10 arnlng
such us spencer gently hlnted n
hoseoerSy pluntiy thrust at them, tina
.heir order ltsel1 was on trlal II stood
IN 1T seemed to them alb
surd. lhey know, OF curse, that there
are sone low fellows IN plg towns who
ak IKE mat, put SO there are unruly
poachers at home. ihey cannot see
tnefe is more IN III thnn that, ana So
they stolldiy, cheertully troopcd out
nehind oalisonry-,4oo or thein-lnto
the lopoy against nome rule. lhat
was Hearty a more than The
mouse OF loros voting hst has ever re-
coraed before. 1T took them fully a
al honr to pass In single lille before
the throne. On the way out they made
MID rural Jokes as they edged along,
taxing II al as a tremendous Lark.
AS 1t has been SAID, the public them
serves Tor the moment, saw only the
rldicuious side OF the thing in the spec
.ac'e OF these hundreds OF muddie-
headed oeetv rustlcs dragged up to
town from their occupation over game
preserves and h price OF fodder and
the best remedies OF h swine fever,
10 SIT yawnlng through four evenings
OF speech making then lightly
throw OUT q measure winch the house
OF has been sweating blood
over for e~lghty-four days, and which
the country has been discussing for six
years. This is frankly too p%reposter-
Gus for serious comment. OF course
the angry aspects OF the case will come
swiftly enough. In a fortnight You
Will see England all astir with the cry
OF Down with the house of lords!'
and by the time the recess ends there
will be no other issue in sight. But it
is worth while to note that the first
step OF this historical struggle finds the
commoncrs, at least London's part of
them, rather amused than otherwise.
There was one detachment of Friday
nights majority, however, at the
thought OF which smiling faces harden.
In that ugly day of reckoning which is
coming for the establishment it will be
remembered with peculiar bitterness
that every bishop of the seventeen
present voted against Gladstone's mes
sage of peace to Ireland. Only II OF
them spoke, the lean, swarthy little
bishop of Ripon, and his oily, canting,
little speech, with its hippant jokes
and ~lnsincere platitudes, "a perhaps
the most ex~asperating item in the
whole long, weary series of attacks
which the big measure has withstood
this year.
Prompt proof of the fact that the
ground of the fighting has been
changed, and war on the birthright
privilege is now the controlling feature
OF liberalism, win be afforded today,
which is to be the field day over the
duke OF Connaughts appointment to
Aldershot. Radicals have All been re-
naming II town for this. Whereas,
the others have largely gene away,
and unless the secretary of war gives
an eXpilclt understanding that Con.
naught will not be brought forward
later for commander in chief in success
sion to the duke OF Cambridge, it is
very likely that the government will
be beaten. The ministry is very ner-
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