Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-25
snecIal CORRESPONDENCE.

M son, NJ. p, who recently at
# tanned the distinction of being
among the four members of
n parliament 'blacklisted' by the king
n from attendance at his majesty's gar
N den party---to which all NJ. P.'s are
usually invited--has announced his
a intention of soon going to America
q 10 study social conditions. Grayson,
a Kerr Hardie, Harry Marks and Arthur
II Ponsonby all voted against the kings
y visit to the car OF Russia. King Ed
ward has retaliated by not inviting
Il them to his garden party, which is
marked 'snub" Grayson Is glad
under the circumstances to be singled
out for royal disfavor, as 1t compen-
safes him for his failure to deliver his
great speech protesting against the
king of England's hobnobbing with
the Russian autocrat. and enables him
To express by social martyrdom his
sympathy with what he considers the
-trodden Russian proletariat.
Getting into parliament is the end
4 and aim of most ambitious Britishers;
but Grayson-the recent successful
candidate from ;Colne valley--looks
upon his triumph rather obviously He
says parliament as at present consti-
tuted, is literally the end of most
aspirants to fame. In the sense that it
- tiltil LII Soou WI n III lilt
world. Grayson, by the way. is one
Of the youngest members of the house
H Of commons. being only 81; and yet.
perhaps, he is the most picturesque
personality in parliament. He has
won his way into the house through
sheer force of individual popularity,
and that among the poorest section Of
The people.
GRAYSoN'S RISE.
He sprang suddenly into fame dur
ing the Belfast strike by speech in
which he is reported TO have advised
the strikers to use glass bottles to
fight with II they could not get guns
His speech against granting Lord
n Cromer an award of $250.000 for his
rule in Egypt also brought him out"
Grayson holds strong views on par
Il liamentary inefficiency. Dealing with
4 that subject in the course Of a recent
a interview granted to the writer, he
made the following rather startling
statement:
The ancient chamber is swaddled
IN the medieval vestments Of pomp-
Gus and now meaningless procedure.
"A The Legislative machine Is exquisitely
n devised to prevent or at least render
a difficult any change in stereotyped in
sututions.
The game of parliamentary dia-
bolO," continued the NJ, p. "is opened
each year by the king. All the vol
uptuous consciousness of oriental
splendor dazzling and bewildering
mass of color, the pomp of mitred &C.
clesiasticism and coroneted nobility
surround the throne. The eagerly list
ening commons crowd the galleries
ana below the bar. to hear fall from
the gracious lips the legislative prom
lse OF the year. Each begowned
nunkey goes through his stupid OBJ
EHnl-tDIlgnRGG az INs la,,ar 4
crlnging mattered in the slightest de-
gree to humanity. The measures in
Guided in this speech are only those
mat an impatient public opinion has
elamored loudly for. The cabinet is
n Heterogeneous collection of vested
interests. The prime minister. how
ever we'll intentioned, Is like a trick
cyclist riding cleverly and carefully
between obstacles, Each special in
terest jealousy guards It's estate.
STOPS SLOW MOVING WHEELS.
The opposition conceives its chief
duty TO be to waste the time of the
government and To put the brake on
A nm already creeping hearse. A bill
proposing, say. some urgent reform
a has to brave the perllous process OF
n hrst and second readings; To subject
llself to the vlvisecting knife OF hos
n Tile persons. and If II survive i'm n con-
N htng atmosphere of the house OF
N lords, IL comes back TO mock the con-
n oltlon 1t was designed to alleviate.
II The hours of the house are fixed
H between the ridiculous times of $3.50
M ana 1880. This Is a sop To the legal
III thd commercial member once safe
ia y Within the chamber, the member
"A orlos his tears of sympathetic anguish.
Fl tllls the heart that beats during the
"a stction for human suffering, carefully
nlushes his passionate pledges ana lays
'9'ln ionderly ON the shelf iii the next
III siection.
remember leaving the house one
%ning In company with blum ana
FL n,arty Liberal member stopping at
M lhe outer gate and SELLING NY arm
"a .Vldially, he gazed with reVcrential
81 sne al the light burning in tile house.
FL nun mat light burns he said trem-
ulously, the house Workg / could not
n nH,riln a smile OF prococlous cyniclsm
~ ! thought OF the work. The day 4
ii pu'lne mas sickening muGotony.
rleeious time in which earnest in
N o,,' men Ghouid be forging genor-
~ tnni, b'alalloh lQr the people, n wan-
eAinh for strong north wind Of
'3eha,,hi TO sweep through the musty
w their vision With n sense ~ M
~ and proportion. We have MEAD
Nhln for a day TO consider fe.d
re starving school ohlldren Rut
flne minister, with the uimost
'''y' replies that the house is too