The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-08


stantly made apparent by current events
that II the English people had any sense
of humor the legislative House of Lords
would long since have been abolished
for that reason Alone. The ridiculous
Marquis OF Ailesbury figuring as a egis-
lator. whose vote would have had as much
weight as that OF Gladstone on the final
passage of the most momentous bill; the
long array of bankrupt peers. whose
money troubles have come about by the
siiliest extravagances over ballet girls
or through accommodating 100 per cent.
money-lendcrs; the noble gentlemen who
ran away with his trusting friend wife,
the brewers whose party contributions
alone bought their peerages the foolish
boys under twenty-five, who never appear
in the gilded chamber except when the
six months labor of the really repre-
sentative House of Commons is to be
untitled after three days debate in the
upper chamber! | have been collecting
mass of such current newspaper ac-
counts to give to some American Gilbert
who will be able to crystalline the grim
humor Of X all
There is certainly another side to the
shield. Among these 600 nob.emen l have
had the privilege, limited as my oppor-
tunities have been, of meeting some of
the most earnest, patriotic hlgh-minded
and able men | have ever known-serl-
| ously concerned for their countrys well
fare. and not less vigorously, and much
more effectively, occupied in studying
the problem of the welfare of the masses
than ker fiardie hmelf. i certainly
could name eighty-eight members of the
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But without exception those members
OF the upper chamber with whom l
nave discussed the question recognize
and deplore the purely hereditary nature
OF the House of Lords and would remedy
| 1t effectively If they could see their way
20 90 50. as between the clamor for
single chamber, without even the re-
straining power to pass upon constitu-
lIohai questions that Is lodged In our
supreme Court, and the stolid resistance
oi the majority OF their own class against
any change whatsoever. AS l have
pointed out In former letter. there
Stems no way OF ending the House of
No'us except ny revolution, and Eng
land shrihks from That. Some Frenchman
mas SAID 'hat England does not revolt
Tonne, IL heutra.izes- as 1t has neu-
| .'"i@eu tue power OF the monarch. That
10 i'toSt i'helv what VIII be done with the
po.i'icai power or the House of Lords
"itl'ih the next half decade. But will
not such quasi abolition, without provid-
Ing d substitute 10 check hasty legisla-
q, ION Vi the popular BODY, work as much
IA u tHe ultimate public welfare as does
Az" Tie purely rory committee which
'ie pieseH' upper champer really is?
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