The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11

lf9 against" TO the Tories who clanorcQ
against a general election al The Christ
mas season, the premier offered the worus
OF their own leader the admission BaI :
iour made in the house that the Hsnt
was Inevitable within q lSw weeks.
! Explaining why a government with a
compact majority wished TO dissolve
in reply TO the charge that il was a
! Drcach OF all prcccdcpt-he said new cir
cuinslanccs demanded new precedents.
The circumstances here are without
parallel iii England's constitutional his
tory. The lords viii have no more dis
/ position lo pass the veto resolutions to-
morrow or next week than they have to-
day. For five years they have dclib-
| erately distorted the first principles of
democratic government by opposing ir-
! responsible privilege 10 the viii OF the
| people as expressed in tlic commons. We
are determined 10 end that now. once
and for all.
lation, and for the establishment in all
It's fulness of representative govern
mcnt, We arc not setting up single
chamber, such as exists under a con
set up revising and a subordinate sec
ond chamber. and not an impoien. one.
which shall work in far-mnded harmony
with the popular chamber, whichever
party is in power.
"Thc more fully TO bring the lower
chamber into touch with the people we
are shortening the tenure OF office from
seven TO five years. We have provided
machinery by which the lords may de-
lay bills through two sessions. but In
the third The bill becomes a law auto
| matcally. In eases OF stress we have
provided for such means OF conference
and the interposition OF delay as will
absolutely prevent legislation being
rushed through by a scratch majority.
| Our safeguards are complete: our pre-
rogativc for reform is in the utmost
| sense urgent and supremely just; our
cause is plainly and unequiTocaly the
cause of the people.
|
il would be difficult 10 say. for eleven
months have wrought 4 great change in
the house OF lords. Tho oneLime infal-
liblc bulwark Of the constitution has be-
come keeny conscious of the necessity
for reforming itself. But, as Dr. John
son once said. Depend upon, it, sir. when
| a man is going to bc hanged in fort
night IL concentrates his mind wonder
fully Lord Lansdowue has but offered
the ghost Of reform He would Increase
the efficiency Of the lords, but their po-
litical complexion. which IS the root Of
The matter he would leave practically
| unaltcred,
Lloyd Georges Position.
| In more than ono speech LLOYD George
! addressed himself To answer tho election
cry that the British constitution is to
| be wrecked by foreign gold. What
should like to know is this Inc said.
''Sincc when have lie British aristoc-
racy started despisns American dol,
lars?" Some one in the audience shouted
tho oAchoquer added. II see you under
| stand me. Many noble house totterinG
10 its fall has had it's foundations under
| pinned. has had its walls buttressed by
pile of American dollars And what
| about The irish landlords and their cruel
rack rents? Who paid those rack
| rents?
The children of tho Irish peasant.
driven across the seas into exile in far
of lands, used TO send their earnings TO
ireland TO keep the poor old people from
....... a yf al
| built with their own hands. Do you
know how many American dollars passed
from America TO Irish landlords in twenty
years? IL was all in royal commission
report. $50 000. 600.
MIR. Redmond went TO America TO ap-
peal To those cXieS To help the old coun-
try. They have done it in millions; 1t
ali wert into the pockets OF the Irish
| landlords, SS0.000.00D, Then Mr. Red
mond said: You are wasting your money:
| You help us 10 get liberty for Ireland, and
| then the dominion OF those landlords VIII
be at an end And they subscribed Il
very considerable sum to carry on the
campaign.
Winston Churchill Prophetic.
After repeatedly putting It on record
| that "the methods and charactcr by
which the Irish campaign fund has been
| raised bear favorable comparison with
| those Of any other party fund in England
| or in any country in the world Win =
ston Churchill. donning tho mantle ol IL
| prophet, SAYS. Jnc HDur Is fpflnS lpr
the reconciliation of the English and the
| Irish people. The sky is already bright
enng. and there Is the promise OF mat
dawn for which Mr.. Gladstone waited SO
long but which he did not live to sec:
] and in the broad light of day we shall
see Ireland free in all that properly con
| Germs herself, loyal 10 the crown. ana
with reviring prosperity. taking her place
with the colonies. and with the heartfelt
sympathy OF that great IGnglisb-spealins
republic across the water. to the dis
comtiturc Of every European r1Vel OF tho
| greatness OF our country; and we sha'I
| sec her take her place, as those brave
Boers have done in u true and indissolu-
| Die union OF the British empire
| Lord CreWe has been asking the coun-
try 80 restore reasonable measure or
| freedom To the chosen representatives OF
"A free nation" and Sir Rufus lsaacs has
| been stigmatizing the lords chorts AT
lf-reform as solemn farce Herbert
Samuel Mcnamara, Mastcrnan and
John Burns arc battling UP and down the
peoples rights striking keynotcs for the
Liberal candidates now In tho field.
The Irish Manifesto.
Tho United Irish League of Great Brit
ain has thrown down the gage OF bat
lie in II manifesto signed by j.. T.. Red :
monh. y. =. OConnor and t. H. Cri'ly.
Irish electors arc told:
This general election turns on the
house OF lords; whether that body SHAH
be able in the future, as In the pest,
TO DhStrUct or 10 pNHfflUP lIlc WIZ VI l''
people. Every race IN these Islands has
the right 10 resent the class The sec
tartan and the political prejudice OF the
house of lords. and the insolcnt and In
tolerablc claim OF six hundred aristocrats
10 have IN q democratic age. II greater
voice in the government OF a nation
than It's forty millions OF people. There
(s no race however. which has so heavy
an account To lay at the door or that sim
isier assembly as the Irish people.
Nov and then d stray peer with dom
.lr.la Gr,1e 10
house Of lords. but under the system
created by the accursed Act OF Union
i,recaulion is taken against the admis-
sion to the house OF lords OF a single
man who represents the national asptra.
lions and the democratic principles OF
The Irish people Irish nationality finds
its representative in an AShtown: 1rs
progress in n Clanricsrdc, And 10 make
The assurance douhIv sure that no as
piration Of the Irish people shall have
any chance AT the bar of tho house 81
lords the dominant party is led hr the