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Show TO REFORM BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS LCjXIKI.V. Thursday, Nov. 21. Pavid Uloyd Ceorge and Apdrew Bonar Law have issued a long election address to the country. It says, among other thing?, t iiat until the country has returned to normal indusirlal conditions it would be premature lo prescribe a fiscal policy intended in-tended for permanence. "The military institutions of the eoun-t eoun-t ry must necessarily lie dependent tmon the needs of the empire, ils prospective requirements and the necessities of the league for (lie preservation of peace.'' sava tne address. "It will be the duty of (he nev government govern-ment to remove ail exisiin.Vr inequalities of law na between men and women, and create a second chamber, based upon direct contact with the people. There can . lie no political peace in the. klnirrlom or em pin while the Irish question remains unsettled. Therefore, nil practical patiis toward a settlement must be exidored. There are two pa t lis, however, which a re dosed, namely, one leading to the com-nli-te severance of Ireland from the empire em-pire and the oilier the forcihle subjection of the six I'lster counties In a bo tne rule parliament against their will." |