Show arrested eloquence A recent suggestion in tile the british house of commons to limit tho the time of debaters in the house recalls some past drastic methods with long longwinded winded speakers it has often been told how the good lord shaftesbury used to pull down discursive orators by their roat coat tails falls but sam wilberforce was oc occasionally easlon ally even more unkind in the days when pieter ieter hull hall was the treat great may meeter ce au an orator rather low down in the program who lind find prepared a lengthy speech said to wilberforce no na lie noticed that people were beginning to leave its hardly worth my speaking they evidently dont expect roe me to be sure they do replied sam dont you see nil all going |