The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-03
DOWN WITH THE LORDS.
Premier Rosebsry's Sensational Speech
Saturday Night.

1Eohhtor ROseDeKy6 sensational speech
Saturday Night.
LONDON, Oct. a9.-The peer premier
Of the democratic party Of the king
dom Saturday night began the great
battle to abolish the hereditary legis-
latiye privileges of his own order. 1t
is surely within reuaon that no event
in the history of Great Britain has been
more momentous to Its people. Ii the
reform is accomplished it must work
as u great relative change in the
methods of English constitutional
government, as did the bill of rights or
magma charta itself. AS to it's practicai
aspects and prospects of success, The
English people must themselves decide
However, Lord Rosebery has put him
self in line with the advanced radical.
ism of his party, and If one may believe
the reports of his oratorical manner
and methods he showed himself to be u
great speaker and to lave given limal
proof of his equally great capabilities
as a party leader.
1t had been said that he was either q
mere farce or a great statesman await
ing his opportunity. Saturday nighthe
seemed to have met that opportunity
and to have used it for one of history's
great progressive movements. How
ever great the opportunity, the primo
minister can now achieve no practical
result without the Irish votes in the
British parliament. These voters, along
with the English radicals. awaited his
speech with eager but doubtful expect
ancy Both seem to nave been sur
prised by the result and thrown into
e%xultant delight. Bradford is almost
Il p~roletarian constituency, but ,the au-
dience went wild over the calm and al
most cynical but pregnant sentences of
the orator and party leader.
Speaking for the Irish supporters, L.
p. O'Connor, MP, tclegrnp!ied down to
London u fervid and even triumphant
eulogium OF the speech. Here are some
extracts from the %ietter, which is pub
lished in the newspapers this mornins,
and which may be accepted us u guide
post to the future action Of the Irish
party:
"The speech went straight to tho
point almost in its very first sentence,
and should add it never loft the point
for a single second. From its first word
to its last it was single topic speech.
1T spoke OF the house of lsrds and alb
octhSSIS u III VIZ buOJCSO Nllut-
ever. Nor was the audience
left in doubt for many minutes as to
what Lord Rosebery's pronouncement
was going to be like. In a sentence
or two from the start he spoke OF the
veto OF an irresponsible chamber
forecast That the eager audience de-
lightedly welcomed. But the first
great outburst came a few moments
after, when Lord Rosebery began to
speak of the different questions on
which the general election would have
to be fought.
''ln my opinion he SAID, "the next
election Will be foughton none of these
questions, but on one which includes
and represents them all. | mean the
question of the house of lords. These
were the words of a final, irrevocable,
epoch making policy, and the audience
slowley, and then, after the first i'm
pulse had been given, with almost
frenzy rose to all the solemnity
pf the moment and of the
ntterance. First a few men,
then some hundreds, and finally the
east audience rose to it's feet, cheered.
waved handkerchiefs and capped
hands. In short, there was one wild,
passionate demonstration of anger, OF
10y and relief"
All this means of course that all
other issues of the liberal party, in
cluding home rule itself, are in the flu
ture TO be laid aside until the abolition
of the abstractive legislative veto of
the stolid tory upper house makes them
possible.