People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-16
WE ESCAPED THIS
BY THE BLOOD OF THE REVO-
LUTIONARY SOLDIERS.
Yet We Are Drifting Toward Very
Much Worse Fato as Nation
with Money Owners as Our Heredi-
tary Rulers.

The people of Canada some of them
are struggling with question which
the people Of this country settled over
a hundred years ago when the CONT
mental armies under Washington drove
the English kings soldiers from our
shores. But while Americans to-day
congratulate themselves on having de-
Stroyed the monarchical system of
government on this continent and
sympathize with the present move
ment in Can ada, we are not any bet
ter off financially as nation, for the
reason when shaking off the British
yoke, we did not also shake off the
British system of money. The follow
ing dispatch from Quebec cites the
grievances of the people Of Nova
Scotia:
The province of Nova Scotia is hav-
ing trouble with its house of lords
There are lots of legislative lords in
Canada, but it is what are known as
little lords" that are at the bottom
of the present and all similar diff
culties. None of these lords are
hereditary, but they are all good for a
lifetime, or, at least, are trying to be.
The dominion lords are the members
of the Canadian senate, and very few
people in Canada are far enough ad-
vanced to demand their abolition,
though majority OF them are in their
, dotage. But in addition to the ma
tional lords most of the separate prov.
inces of Canada lave their own petty
provincial peerage. Ontario, the rich
est province of them all, never had
provincial peers nor a second legisla-
tive body OF any kind, and apparently
gels on splendidly with ut one. The
poorer provinces not only have them,
but can not get rid of them.
Quebec has tried to abolish them and
failed. They sit and draw their ses-
sional allowance OF 81 900 each year,
and write "honora ble' before their
names and decline to be abolished.
Nova Scotia is in the thick of a fight
on the subject The petty peers that
form its legislative council or provin-
cial house Of loids are appointed by
the government of the day-nominally
by the lieutenant governor-in coun-
ell for life, like those of Quebec. The
people of the province, by big ma
jority, are anxious for their abolition
on the score of economy. They gave
a big majority in the elective branch
of the legislature to the g ,vernmrnt
pledged to abolish the legi slative
council.
Mr.. Fielding passed q measure
through the house to provide for the
abolition Of the second chamber. 1t
could not become law, however, till
it was sanctioned by both branches of
the legislature, and the petty peers
rejected it.
Then the government waited awhile.
and as vacancies were caused by death
they were filled by other little lords,
pledged, when called upon, to vote
themselves out ofexistence. They have
Just been called upon to fulfill their
pledges, but experience has taught
them their own utility, and they have
voted in accordance with the dictates
of the first law of nature. lin vain
the leading authorities on constitu-
tional law have told them that they
have not leg to stand upon. They
simply stand upon their dignity and
assert their acquired rights. Driven
to despair, Premier Fielding has given
notice that he will move in the cleo
tive branch OF the legislature for a
humble address of the house to be
presented to Queen Victoria praying