The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-10


Cause Was Injured.
This in several instances has result
ed rather disastrous'y for their cause.
One notable case is that of Lord Kest
ven, who. when supposed to make a
strong speech in favor of protection.
got mixed and described to his delight
ed audience all the blessings that were
to result from free trade.
But the Liberal leaders have not
been idle. and while supporting the
budget in their speeches, they have
gone step farther and some of the
more radical have demanded The abo-
lition OF the House Of Lo,tis as n he
reditary body. They urge that the
members of the upper house shoui1
be elected instead Of inhoritins their
seats, as in This WV they could be
their constituents.
LIoyd.Georee a Leader.
The Liberal campaign has been
headed by such able men as David
Lloyd George. chancellor o. the En-
chequer and author of til. budget:
Winston Spencer Churchill author and
statesman: Premier Asquith; John
Burns, the noted strike leader and
cabinet minister, and host of others
too numerous to mention
These speakers have taken the ac-
ceptance Of the Bulge: by the people
as an assured fact, and have directed
their fire against the house of lords.
In characteristic speech, Lloyd
George said:
There is just one dominating ques-
ton to be submitted to the people
the House of Lords. And what
body. Their so'e qualifications.
speaking in the main, is that they were
the first born of persons who had just
as little qualifications as themselves.
Held as an Insult.
"To invite this imperial race, the
greatest commercial nation i'll the
world, a nation that has taught the
world the principles Of self govern
men and liberty, to sign the decree de-
claring itself unfit to govern itself IS
an insult which hope will be flung
back with Indignation.
Carlyle once said, ut is wonderful!
! how long a rotten institution will hang
together so long as it is not roughly
handled" Apart from a few in the
House of Lords. the rest ara Of no
more use than broken bottles stuck
in park wall to keep off poachers-
and that is what they are there for-to
keep off radical poachers from the
lordly preserves" The budget was
not thrown out by the wise and reflect
ing men of the Unionist party, but by
it's mad Mullahs.
| Both sides claim the victory. but the
Liberals are the more confident, anu
from the character OF the demonstra-
tions during the campaign, they nave
a right to this confidence. In many
of the northern sections of the country
| the lords who addressed meetings were
greeted with hissings and booings; IN
some places more drastic treatment
was resorted to, and dignified peers
were showered with over-ripe fruit and
stale eggs.
Aside from the question Of the re-
lection or the acceptance OF the bud
get by the people, it is obvious that II
the Liberals are returned to power,
the House of Lords will undergo rad
ical change 1t is even admitted by
some of the leading members OF that
aristocratic body that the present
house is too unwieldy for an effective
second chamber.
Hereditary Right.
They all, however. object to an elect
i've principle and adhere to the nereo-
tary right. But feeling runs hlen a.
the present time. and if the policies
advocated by some of the more radio
al leaders are carried out, it would
mean the adjustment of the Oldest
body in the English government. which
dates from the days of the Norman
kings.
/ This body is composed of the whole
peerage of England and of the United
Kingdom. and of certain representa-
tives of the peerages of Scotland and
Ireland. At present it consists of two
princes. the blood royal, two archbish
ops, 30 dukes, % Marquises, 124 earls
40 viscounts, n bishops. 235 barons, II
|, Scottish representatives peers elected
; for life-making 617 members in all.
/ AS explained. the lords are an he
!, reditary body, and not answerable tt
the people. They may originate leg
. islative matter of all kinds, except
. money bills; which are drafted in tn.
lower 1odl; and it is not necessar,