Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
WAS GIVEN FEARFUL RAKING
Recent Campaign Accumulated Weak
Character of Mobiles.
AN AGGREGATION OF BLoCKHEADs
Lloyd George INDUCES in Scathing
Arrangement,
TAUNTs LORDS AS COIN CHAsERs
FiRhtinE Chancellor of the Excheauer
Uses Colonies ns Illustrative OF
Uselessness OF Hereditary
Chamber.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.

BY PAUL LAMBETH
LONDON, Dec. 17.-(special to The Bee)-
The House OF Lords may survive few
years. but that it lie doomed is the opinion
Of thinking people throughout the empire
Until recently II was hated; now II is the
butt OF ridicule. During the recent cam
paign the institution got a raldng that it
cannot long endure. II is hard for Amer-
cans TO appreciate what a body like the
House of Lords really Is.
The stupid useless and antiqua1ed institu-
tion Is made up as follows: Three princes,
thirty dukes, thirty-seven maruuesses. 229
NRrls, eighty-four viscOunts. 4lb barons.
Total 7Ss, not including the bishops, OF
whom twenty-siK sit in the House Of DOrts.
Aside from the bishops who are educated
men, the lords are, probably: the biggest
aggregation Of blockheads ever assembled
under one roof. 1t is positively painful to
listen 10 them when engaged in debate.
1t has been suggested by Tom Fielders, a
London wit, that. prisoners who sen
fenced TO hard labor should Je forced TO
listen 70 the noble lords making speeches,
as a substitute for the hard labor end Of
the sentence. About the brainiest Of the
lot is the premier peer. the duke OF Nor
folk whose creation dates from l4Ss-the
fifteenth century He is something Of an
bracelets and several carry ladies' UNI
breilas. Think Of such a body having abb
solute control over any country or even
voice in any serious affair Of lifel
scathtnE Criticism.
one OF the most effective attacks ever
made upon the lords was made recently by
Lloyd George. II is worthy Of reproduction
here. Comment had been made by Tory
&c hat r4a A
money to this country. to be used in elect
Ing enemies OF Toryism TO Parliament Re
plying. Mr.. George said;
Now with reference to the House OF
Lords 1 Will declare that no civilized people
would tolerate such a legislative body.
What / should like TO know is this-since
when has the British aristocracy started
despising American dollars? / see you
understand that. Many a noble house tot
tering TO its fall has had its walls but
tressed by American dollars. / am informed
that there Is a newspaper even In London,
a Tory newspaper, run by American dol
lars.
France has q senate; the United states
has a senate: the colonies have senates. But
they are ali chosen directly or indirectly
by the people Let them take a trip to
Australia and persuade the Australians to
set up a House Of Lords on our plan
CIaughter) Let Us 60 there with them
now. We win go TO Australia with a noble
tariff reformer. And before we landed he
would say. Have you a second chamber
They would say. Yes Then we would
say, Would you mind telling us HON 1t is
composed. and Of what class OF peopley
They would say. Just the class Of people
anywhere around here. 1t As elected by all
the people. male and female. wac are OF
age But our tariff reform friend would
say. Surely you give more votes 70 the
owners OF property than 10 q mere man
who works for his living? They would
say, No Then our Tory friend would
say. Is property secure? Why? Can a
man safely bring ms capital 20 this coun-
tryT And the Australian would say, From
ali / hear It should be much safer here
than IN many quarters Of London. "
Recipe Ready Made.
The Australian would be very impressed
and would say. An. what shah Australia
do to be savsd' Give US an aristoeracy.
How are we 10 get Oney ] would say. The
easiest thing In the world. l will tell how
we got ours / viii give you our oldest.
most ancient stock and Consequently our
best-QAuEhter)-beeause an aristocracy is
like cheese; the older It ~, the higher It
becomes. Great laughtsr) / will tell YOU
how We got our nrst and best quality. A
few shiploAds Of French nlibusters came
over from Normandy. They killed all the
owners OF property they could lay their
hands on Having done 50. they levied for
their own uses death duties at 100 per
cent Unfortunately. their descendants
have been cutting each others threats and
there are very few OF them left QAugh-
teri Consequently they are very rare and
costly, and need hardly assure you that
such q common and vulgar doctrine as
the survival OF the fittsst does not apply
70 them. QAuEhter) Now. that is how we
started. and we would Ray 10 the
Australians. Have you anything like
thRtT They would say. Well. stop a min
ute; we had a few bushranEsrs. but we
must inform you they only stole cattle
Q-aughter) Oh. We would say. Cattle
won't do: It must be land, and that on
large scaleS.' Well says the Australian
II really does not matter; We hanged the
last Of them short time ago-Ccheers)-
before they had an opportunity Of found
ing family Have you anything else
Appropriated Church Property.
We'll, let us give you our second quality
In this way: We had a religious reforms-
ton IN this country and We had certain
people who took advantage OF Il 20 appro-
pirate 10 their own uses land ana build
ings which had been oonseorated TO feed
the needy and 10 tend the sick. There wa
great distress in the country; the poor
never knew where 20 turn. and after Year,
Of discomfort and hunger and famine and
rebellion az last they set up a system
whereby these poor people were provided
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nov paying rates In order 20 make up foi
the revenue which has been appropriated
by those noble people who rejected om