Show GREAT CRISIS Because the house of lords has re rejected rejected rejected the liberal education bill and has refused to consider its adoption in anything an thing like mee acceptable e form the people of the country have manifested ste their th lr indignation In a series s ries of public meetings such as the tho nation has not seen in many years ye rs If one on may ma judge from the time cabled re reo reports ports the original education bill biU ao ad a an issue has been lost sight of in the great greater er issue raised by b the house of pee pes s in overruling the tile will of ot the tile people as ex expressed expressed expressed pressed by the house of commons Just how serious the crisis is may be in inferred inferred inferred from extracts of Premier Camp letter to the general committee of the National Liberal Fed Federation Federation in which ho he said eaid it was certain the house of lords would assert itself as the Instrument of unionism as soon so n as the country rendered a verdict against n the unionist government and unionist policy Still he continues we may guilty gUilt to n ml certain of or sur surprise surprise Surprise prise at the violence of the manifesta manifestation tion now that it has come The edu education education education cation bill bIU as passed ed by the house of commons was a bill bIU which the country demanded in unmistakable terms at the general election It now flow seems to have liae been turned into a travesty of its Us original original inal hInt form As ts s amended it perpetuates if it does mit extend he the very g je anul ami wrongs fixed upon the coun country cou coutry country try by the time act of o 1002 s S Of or one thing thins you jou may rest assured we will trill Iii hava huv h e no tampering with the main prin principles principles upon which our bill bm is founded If within those limits an au arrangement ar can be reached all aU well and good if not ilot it will wm be for us to see that on this of education and amI on others a away ava way va is found round by b which the wishes of the country may ma be made mad to prevail History Is only repeating itself in this issue but Um times s have changed and the sentiment of hr f Great Britain has ad advanced advanced advanced since the time day when the upper house settled adversely the fate of dla home rule bill blU and practically cally ended his great groat career Then TUen the time obstruction of the time lords lorus was accepted not without protest but still with less violent feeling than has been aroused in this case But in that day there was no imo labor Jabor party in parliament the right of the people to demand Iemand accept acceptance acceptance acceptance ance of their measures as adopted by bythe bythe the Ule commons was less strenuously as asserted asserted asserted and regard for the time traditional privileges of the peers was more in ev cv evidence evIdence What the tile end of this present contro controversy controversy controversy versy may ma be bi no one may foretell but it is plain that veneration of tradition respect for the opinions and rights of the time house of lords are fast giving g ing way to the belief bellef that the time anomaly of o representation n by b right of birth or from the creation of or titles by the crown must eventually be abolished Democracy is making fast headway in Britain and the time stubborn refusal of the lords to ac accept accept accept the inevitable is only hastening the time lay day da when their power will wiH be either wiped out or r so restrained that it will willbe willbe be only a shadow of the Its owners held beld in III former days da s |