The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-31
SAVE THE LORDS.
Salisbury Speaks for His
Own.
DEFIANCE TO ROSEBERY.
Let Him Make the Issue if He
Dare.
WHY THE PEERS STAND FIRM.
Driven to Conservative Ground by
the Course of Gladstone
on Home Rule.

EDINBURGH, Oct. 30.-A conference of
the Scottish Conservative Associations
was held here to-day. A large number Of
persons were present and eX-Prime Min
lister Salisbury made speech. in which
he scathingly criticized Rosebery's speech
at Bradford. He described the agitation
against the House of Lords as herring
drawn across the path of home rule. de
did not believe Rosebery was IN earnest In
his proposed resolution regarding the
house of Lords. 1t would be harmless
and il submitted to the country 1t would
in no wise be like the referendum TO
which Rosebery had likened it. He. him.
self, would not speak against referen-
DUN. In fact, he thought it decidedly ad-
yaD:ageouS in the form in which 1t existed
in America for good government and the
stability of the Government. Doubtless,
Archbishop Walsh's we'll drilled bat
talions would pass Rosebery's resolution
against the voice Of the country.
''Do you." he asked, Imagine the reso-
luton would possess any moral authority
whatever, or that any sane human being
could imagine that England or Scotland
would abuse themselves so far as to put
their necks under the heel Of South and
West Ireland? It was ludicrous. They
may pass all the resolutions they like. but
bill embodying such proposals will never
be recognized by the courts of law. No
such change in the constitution is possible
without considerable majority Of tine
people being in its favor"
Salisbury urged that on several occa-
siOns in his experience the House of Lords
had supported Liberal and Conservative
opposition. If the House OF Lords had be-
come virtually Conservative body it was
because Gladstone's Irish policy had
driven them in that direction. IL the
Irish question was once moved out of the
way the House of Lords would gradually,
though perhaps slowly, settle back into the
old position in which the parties were
evenly based.
He added: ''If the question of handing
the Government of the country over to a
single chamber should come before the
country, which do not believe it will 90.
we would have to confront the greatest
danger the community has had to face in
many centuries. Remember that the
domination of a single chamber has not
been adopted by any considerable country
on the face of the earth. If any one
thinks the Government of Greece has a
| success under the single assembly let him
| buy Greek stocks.
| Can it be supposed possible TO govern
India by an Independent House of Com
mons, where the ideas of faddists might
become law without chance of an APP,
peal to q higher authority? One other
point: But for the House of Lords you
would now have eighty votes in the House
of Commons salable to the highest bid
ding party. making you and your Interests
slaves of Archbishop Walsh and bis
| friends"
Without saying anything about the
maintenance of the House of Lords in itc
present form he appealed to all who be.
lieve in the religious institutions of the
country, in freedom. in the security OF
contract and the sanctity of property tt
combine to support the second chamber
which he declared was necessary to con-
troll the decisions Of the elective chamber
He spoke for over an hour and twenty
| minutas