Show THE COMMONS in the current cornhill Coin hlll hill lag magazine azille mr birrell hns has an article on tile house of commons wo we encourage the utah legislature to read the article lie he declares there Is nothing noble or exalted in the history of tile the house of commons and goes goca on oil in this strain indeed a devils advocate had lie he the requisite talent could easily deliver tin an oration as long lone as brilliant as any of burkes or Sheri dans taking as ills his mu subject abject the stupidity th the C cowardice 0 11 1 1 to L all and 4 until recent times il the r U 1 in the house of 0 commons I 1 confess I 1 cannot call to mind one single occasion in III its long and remarkable history when the house of commons as a whole played a part either cither heroic or conspicuously wine but bill we all of us can recall hundreds of occasions when ehen heroism and wisdom being greatly needed tho the house of commons exhibited either utter indifference crass ignorance or the garest reat passion still lie says gaya another marked characteristic act of the house of commons Com mona Is its utter indifference to either cither deputa tion or great fortunes it does not care a snap knap of 0 its finger the in come of the now new members Is LI a yew or 13 a meek whether his esthr wm was OL a duke or a blacksmith its only concern with him Is that if he ling hns anything to pay bay he be may say it and it if he has haa nothing to say ho be m hlll ill say bay noth ine inc and still the house of 0 commons Is it a great body no doubt there are country squires there and cou country try bump kins king there la Is plenty of that english egotism which tolerates the rest of the world but does it condescendingly find and in the th most irritating manner but there Is after all a spirit of 0 fair air play there and beyond that tho the hall ball Is tilled filled with echoes of voices which are heard no more and all that la Is granil grand in english history except tho the valor 0 of her soldiers on the field with more or less leaa distinctness figures with the history of tho the house of commons Great souls have left their impressions there in tho the years gone by nihon han england mas 11 as building up her nationality when england was really holding up almost alone the light of civilization of tho the world ahen england was threatened by terrible foes oes all that history which englishmen treasure anil and which the world reveres had at least a part of its expression jn in that house of commons anil and it there ther Is in here and there a chump lit in the body it la Is not nol strange it would not do to have them all great men and the fact that a great many such men have been there but makes more radiant the reputations ot of the deathless souls which for it a little while illuminated that place and then passed on to their promotion are arc very proud of them and they have a i ight to ta be |