Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
LIBERALS IRE RISING
blouse of Lords is Doomed"
the Cry of British Radicals.
WHOLE COUNTRY is STIRRED
Newspapers Filled With "Misdeeds"
of the Upper Chamber.
NO NEW EDUCATION BILL
Incidents of the Anniversary Celebra-
ton Of the Sailing of James
town Settlers.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, December %, 1906.
| The house of lords is doomed is the
radical cry all over the country today 1T
is not second legislative chamber say
| they, but a tory committee chiefly made
| up of landlords and bishops, and it is a
disgrace to the nation The whole coun-
try is stirred up, and rightly so, for the
| hereditary members of the 81 ded chamber
| have thwarted the will of the populace as
| expressed at the last election In January.
The tories were puverized at that election
| and the liberals went sent back to commons
| with a majority of nearly four hundred.
| The party had several mandates but none
| were more urgent than free trade and
| popular control of education. Now the
| lords have made ten months work of none
effect, and the countrys wrath is rising.
| The liberal newspapers are full of the
| misdeeds of the peers who year after year
| have thrown out bills passed by commons
| which were popular, but which interfered
| in some way with the privileged class in
| Great Britain. Little by little these privi-
| leges have been shorn and the commonalty
| Rave come into enjoyment of what is I'M
doubiedly their own. Now the cry is raised
| to do away with the hereditary principle in
| the second chamber and, above all to
purge it of the religious influence expressed
| by the bishops. who are always reactionary
| and oppose all liberal measures. Many peo-
| pie profess to see near future when the
! same scenes will be enacted in England as
| are now taking place in France. when
| the Church of England is disestablished, ~
| say they, land place-hunters turned our,
| honest men VIII come to their own
Many Measures Rejected.
| Long and formidable lists of measures re-
jected or wrecked by the titled legislators
| are printed and in many cases it is shown
that the bishops have been the most illib-
| eral They rejected Cathn,.,s and Jews
J from parliament and dissenters from the
| universities by votes almost unanimous
| only two bishons out of thirty voting in
favor of these questions. On evey cues
| ton of religious freedom the lords led by
the bishops. have shown themselves vio-
| iently hostile. The fight against the adj
| mission of Jews TO parliament went on
from 1893 to 1888 or nearly a genera ion
| The lords rejected bills passed through til :
| commons no less than eight times
| With the nonconform lists their rec, / has
| been even worse. The admission of dis
| senters to the universities was delayed
thirty-six years from 1884 to 1S7D. The
| years QS5S-1S6D. The opening of gave
| yards to dissenters was delayed seven
| years QS13-1SS0). These are grave wrongs
| for an assembly to have inflicted on any
| pletes the record. There are no men, saws
| a philosopher, whom we hate SO much as
these we have wronged. The hcsse of
| lords purSues the nonconformists with a
| virulent hatred. In order to indulge this
| hatred they allow labor bill to pass which
! they openly denounce as scandalous. Their
| desire is to concentrate their malice on one
| section OF the communicate repeat in the
| common schools of The nation the treat
ment they perpetrated in the universities
"Let Us Kill the Lords"
The Star. one of the strongest radica,
evening papers and which has an immense
| circulation among middle classes. saws as
| follows:
| THE lords have killed it. Let us kill
| the lords. = 1t is with an immense
| nausea that we write of these misera Bile
| incendiaries. these wretched mischief max
| ers, who gloat over the success of their
| ghoulish resolve to destroy all hope of a
| religious truce and an educational con-
| cordat. We look forward with loathing to
! the prospect of a religious war, in which
| the Sermon on the Mount will be made
| as offal torn by the obscene teeth of sec
! taries. But whatever orgies of Christian
| hate the secular spectator may be forced
| to take part in. this we know, and this
| the nation knows - the government has
| been more Christlike than the official rep
| resenativeS of Christ
| The speech of the prime minister gave
! universal satisfaction to his supporters.
! II was IOuGTdle ana UlSnlneu, and
| said Just what was necessary and no more
| Its most noteworthy sentence was that in
| which he said that the powers of the
| house of commons were not exhausted
| This clearly points to the exercise of the
| FINANCIAL powers of the house in effectins
| a settlement of the education question. He
gave Indication of what he thought
| might be done. but there are various ways
| in which the house of commons, allied with
| the executive government, could make
| things extremely awkward for nom provid-
| ed schools
Parliament might vote a large grant for
the erection of provided schools in districts
| where their effect would be to cripple if not
| to destroy, the voluntary schools. Then,
| of course, il would be quite within the DOW
| er of the house to refuse to vote the par
| liamentary grant for provided schools
| This would be a very extreme course 1t
could not be adopted except as the last re-
Sort but if it is necessary for parliament
to impose its will. either on the house of
| lords the Anglican Church, very strong
measures may be necessary.
| The government. | hear. will not bring in
| another education bill on the lines of the
dead measure, or one even approxima ting
! to it. Clause 4 and the special facilities
are gone forever. and Mr. redmond and
the Catholics he represents have been put
| in the cart by the house of lords But
something must be done. and the govern
ment is. first of all. anxious to revive the
clauses in the bill of 1906 which have
/ been accepted by every one. These clauses
| include the delegation by the county coun-
ellis of minor functions. with certain DOW
ers of expenditure: to local committees, the
medical inspection of children and the
| provision for better Fairgrounds. small
bill will, therefore be brought in next year
dealing with these matters. and there is no
| doubt that 1t will pass the lords The gov
| eminent has other plans at present, and to
| this bill will be added a clause relieving
| local authorities from he denominational
| instruction. This bill, being a financial
| measure, will be beyond the power of the
| lords to resist. and moreover the opposi-
| Ion accepted the principle of no rate-aid
for deromnational instruction in the bill
| just dead.
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