Show BRITISH PARLIAMENT A great groat gret struggle straggle Is on In England In which tho the position of tho the upper house is being heln attacked tacked a with Ith more than usual violence Down with the House of oC Lords Lr has ha again become the bat bRt battle battie tIe tle cry The trouble started when tIme tho th lords threatened to reject rejet the budget budet bill bi of at Mr r Lloyd Od George but Lord Lansdowne has his tried to pour pur oil 01 upon time tho turbulent waters by assuring the time Commons that tho the bill bi would not be bc b re rejected re rejected absolutely I but hut that tho the people would be given a chance chanc to pass pa upon it either by means of referendum or a general election eleton Lady Cardigan Cardig how however ever has just added fuel Cuel to the tho flames lames by b publishing her Recollections of oC the lives Ives of the time British nobility In her hOl time She depicts the time nobles as a set of people who regard themselves as being tho the very cry elect and yet have nothing to do but to drink hunt and make love to each others wives It I Is easy to Ima Imagine gine gino what the tIme effect of such revelations at the present time must be beThe beTh beThe The Th English parliament parlament grew gw out of oC the tho geat gat council counci that used to meet met in inthe Inthe the time early part of 01 the history of oC the time country and discuss affairs of state with wih tho the king Its Is members were wee earls carls barons blon bishops arid and nd abbots dany any of the tho meetings wore were characterized by b rio vio violent 10 lent disputes for tOI the barons frequently refused the taxes asked for tor by the time kings king and criticized their policy and management of the government Until tnt the reign of Edward I the time no nobles nobles bles bies and prelates had been beon considered the tho only classes whose counsel kings need to seek seck but hut then it i was wan wal recognized that the classes below these were equal equally ly Important When this botanic became beame a rec roe recognized recognized principle representative gov got government took toole form In 1295 King Ed E Edward ward yard summoned the tIme archbishops bish bishops ops ps greater lots earls and barons to come como to a parliament parlament that was to meet at Westminster But he also aso sent sont senta sonta a writ to the time sheriff of each 01 county count ordering him to see sec that two men of oC ofha oCtha ha the rank ranle of knight were wore elected to represent the county count and two towns town townsmen men to represent each city or borough In that county count And thus he hc had ha n a parliament consisting of oC two arch archbishops arc archbIshops bishops seventy abbots seven seen earls barons and seventy representatives of oC tho shires and two two hun hundred dred representatives of towns The he representatives of 01 the time shires and towns soon drawn together by common sympathies and Interests They Tho were newcomers In parliament They rhe were elected d by the tho people Their I station in life u was wa wai humble compared d to that thai tha of oC tho the clergy cery and barons baras In par parliament pr lament they thoy became known kown n as aM tho the commons common By and by li tho the distinction between betseen tho tIO commons cOlons and nd the tho t lo other h r members became so marked that they thoy assembled in different rooms and asid ad were organized OB aim a distinct bodies lodies And thus I originated the Lii House ouse of ot Lords and thin House ous of ot Commons Since the two Houses Houss have been rather antagonistic to each oah other It I lies has hn become evident to time the liberty loving Englishman that that un an hereditary body however great the personal Influence of ot its 11 members cannot In tho the present cen con century tury tUr England Englad be b the equal of corporate authority of a representative chamber It I has hn become apparent that the time House of or Lords might on Important Issues Issue differ 11 le I In lii opinion from front tho time house of Commons and nn that In such cases cass an enduring desire of the tho nation naton esex pressed ed In In the representative chamber must prevail So strong has hn this senti sentiment sent ment become that oven avow oOn time the lords them themselves th m selves have havo that thal tima tho nr J nn v Lords exists mel on sufferance The English public is patient and amid ald may may tol an antiquated machine mahine as long longas as It works without serious friction but hut when trouble tuble comes the machine will wl surely surel be put aside aide If It it cannot bo be Tho The House of Commons from being the commons in parliament has liFts advanced to its It present dominating Im Importance importance and that is one of oC tho the signs sIgs by b which the advancement In civilIze thou tion ton may ma be b measured The tion ton of the tho House of ot Lords would not mean the t e exclusion of or tho time higher classes clas e from the time affairs of tho the nation naton It I would mean that tho noble noblemen noblemen men antI and clergymen clergen could enter parlia parliament ment only If elected as the members of t tho the lower house are arc elected And that seems to bo be the only natural naurl way In Jim a country with representative gov |