Show 1 Facts About the British I WHY AN ENGLISHMAN LOVES A LORD 11 L 1 By Hugh ONeill Editorial f Post st I a w i I s S the tho people or of the thO UnIted t j Kingdom of oC Great Grea Britain and I 1 n d havo h ova r e j d the I 11 i budget b djel and as asI ther the of oC lords b by adopt I th that l budget when It C Jol r r 1 them themI or of th the tor torI I ga gao o the people that or exercising sail la d the opportunity I 1 power or of rejection and Id as s the house lords have been cd to be but actually were not issue In the tho general gen genral eral ral election cI In tho rho UnIted r Kingdom dom of oC so t fortt this or of tho facts Is submitted with II a vIew to presentIng th the truth a Of OC courno the house houle of C lords s not popular In this IbIs country It Is nut not popular p pu pular lar In a any w other dominion n Pf C free Cree men cn who under the common delusion that a lord rd I is the Iasi oC feudalism and that a cool coal baron or an anoil oil baron haron or a railroad baron cnn can be bela I la II l Ir you ou can only find tho rho way to the kind or of law th that t tI I will oC magnate I But the house of lords k let ft J do door nu aforesaid C 8 1 Ui Is it still cherished In mu lions of oC British as the tho fortress which sands bet them and the ruo of oC the mono money power For many members or of tho ho lords are poor man or of than would now bo actually working for or a living but for Cor Corthe forthe the dowered of oC our own mil millionaires And nd today In an E England the tho people still remember that It was n a peer supported by the h use of IC lords r I who gave sae to England her mining laws for Cor the protection of oC women rod and children And AmI her first factor laws for tho protection or of women and chil children dren al also o f And tle they remember lit still that almost lI oer every measure of oC socIal legislation having In view the tho relief or of tho peo Ileo plo P le ant the grinding conditions ot of modern industrialism had been pro promoted b by the CO Conservatives opposed b by the tho Liberals Liberal and supported b by tho of oC lords And tho people of oC England remember other othe things tOil loo They rhe remember that It Il was tho Con par party which proposed the tho first pure food laws They Thc remember that It was the Liberal party Wirt which op potted poled laws They will tell you OU still how John Bright In opposing those laws la s dc that adulteration tion of oC tood was form torm of competitIon And the remember that It Wes the lords again who sup supported ported those pure food laws because thO believed bellec 1 them to he be la laws designed In tho interests of the tho common people and nd demanded by the voice of oC thu com common common mon people It Is true that the tho lords stand stan for Cor privilege The They are ure vcr very candid aristocrats The They believe bellee In the lire rule of oC the tho best But their thell chamber is not lot exclusIve It Is b by no menns as ox all as th senate or of the United States It Is IN easier much easier casler for or a poor poorman man or of genius In law or shIp or letters to become a member ot of the of oC lords titan than It would that kind to be i be for tor Il a poor man of oC como conto a member ot of our senate John Joh Morley Is a peer It Is onla only a few tew years ao at o that John Morley MOrle was deviling for tor a publishing firm In Ing cheap editions edItion or of the classics Harmsworth Is a peer and when Morley was deviling for Cor those thoe Harmsworth was culling out for Cor n a miscellany newspaper There are aro In the house ot of lords at present members who have IlIve dis distinguished themselves In law and liter mer literature and who started life as actual poor men Inca as poor some or of them themas ns as Lloyd Llod George as tho lords are aro not an elected house the they are In conflict with all t the conceptions of oC re republican i a u bite an gov government but under un con of oC Groat Britain the people can make lords lordt an elective body bedy whenever the they reach a decision and until the they do reach that decisIon It Is proper to that the tho Poo peo people pie of oC Great prefer tine the lords to remain a of oC Inherited land landowner owner d hy by the constant Infusion slon sion of oC new blood through Oho ho presence of oC men upp for approved ed Intellectual merit of oC the lords must be order to 10 th the view held o of It b by many thousands o of wage eal earning nJ en Tho lords ar are n 11 house houlle o of and Intellectual privilege hut but tho they are aro not a house of oC In thu modern commercial sense The They do not nolo cis as a class own own factories They do not as s CI S r a mines They do not t a ti class I dominate t banking and Tho are not pt ol what is III called lIed the new rIch When Whon In invented vented and JT nett cli and h den were b tho million tom tho country Into Inlo tile the then ihen eul s l factories ot of and Yorkshire antI and the needs of drove of oC other men and women omen antI and children Into the th coal mines It wS was the tho landholdIng lords who came to their relief and compelled the ot of humanitarian laws And It Is the lords UnIonIsts now who are aro fighting for Cor the or of British industries so that mont ment In the Island will be Increased and tho working man will get a livIng wn wage e for tor hi his labors Their coronets and their robes their titles title may all be foolish Coolish as the h headgear and titles and rituals and ind robes or of our multitudinous secret so o clones but the lords do still present to the En Ens n as so n other nl than tho ho dollar power as a 11 bod body In indeed deed which has saved them from tho oppression n or of the dollar power moro more than once But the lords lord were not an Issue In the campaign just closing The LI bern II I and Lloyd Llod George Goorge and Asquith the tho premier tried to make the lords nu au I issue but the they railed failed I Th The real roal Issue was fr free trade or pro protection n a reciprocal with tile the British h dominions or a 1 break breakIng breakIng Ing up o of the empire a 1 living wage wago for farm workers and artisans the manufacturing or of the industrial world In the Lloyd George korge budget the lords Hd did what tho they had lL a legal rIght to do It It is a 0 right the they have not often oCten exercised but the tho budget was waa not an ordinary budget It was wal In effect an amendment to the tho ot of the antI tho lords r rejected It tIO no that It might bt be submItted to n a referendum or of the whole people And the people have declared against It they have hae against it more emphatically than Uie cabled election returns make evident There are arc In a shorter I term than Britain and tour four distinct poll political tI parties parties s are the Unionist part party the Liberal party part the Labor party and tho IrIsh party part Some Som time ago the tho Unionist party part was wt n dl tho C and Ift but the have hav practically fused CUlled The Labor party part Is Ihl political ex cx or of organized labor stands for or the tho control Iw by the state ot of all the means mems of o ton tion and exchange It It is In parlIament and votes for the tho party which will give Jhc It the largest In nt through legislation or of the tho king of pro n Irish Nationalist party stands 5 for Cor Irish homo home nile not nolo It should bo be understood the tho mena oC et home e mule rulo ru xo wo set get In our states hut but r rule that would amount to effectual nde inde independence r The Liberal party Is In II a wa tho rho Democratic party part of oC England It be In unrestricted individualism It In free competition It Is against the tho empire of oC England and her It is the tho party of oC free frer trade trolle In the th past It been the relentless opponent or of all hum nl h seeking the of the Ito conditions of oC labor In nines mineR and factories It Is III the tho antiwar party part and It has haR always fought an any l in increase l crease In tho rho English En lish naval program It Is the party by b the tho act of oC Its readiness In power to call out tha Iho to 10 shoot down strikers In the manufacturing to or of I Lancashire and Yorkshire It las has no alliance wIth the Labor party part and Its Ils candidates are re opposed b by r candidates whenever Labor I hor has I a fI lighting chance of oC w The Unionist part party approximates our Republican party part In the larger The UnIonist party parI Is hI the party part of oC pro for home In Industries Jt It stands f for r reCIprocal trade between England the British dominions of oC Canada AIS and South Excepting only Its opposition to old ago the tho Unionist party has al tta WR been the party part of oC progress In l u lal and social odal legislation Be Believing lieving that It Is well In time of oC peace to prepare for Cor war tho UnIonist party part has haI always believed In ample amplo naval protection It opposed the Lloyd Llod George korge budget In parliament because that nat budget contained unImproved land values taxation tox Uon measures of oC tho Henry George Gcorge kind whIch had not been an when tho LIberal party war wa glen given its maJority In social and Industrial legislation It JI is more progressive than tho Rc Ite publican party or of the tho United Staten stud temperamentally Its membership Is more radical Tho Unionist party was as defeated at atthe the tho l last t general rome five years ago because there are not as man many straight party part men there thero 11 as there thore are aro here Thoro aro no machine Ien vote volo for lor n a nt at ono election and for n a Liberal at another and for tor n a Labor candidate nt at another They vote ote not for parties but for tor issues rho toted for tor a L Liberal maJority last time because they wore tired or of the tho Boor Boer war and that tired feeling was wase very e severe The They wonted n a change They The wore were worked up about the tho school question Also Mr fr Balfour DalCour the tho Unionist leader was wnM a 11 lon long and hun gentleman who quite sure whether he wanted a lot or of protection for or home industries or only a I little tie protection and ns nN Chamberlain was IaM too ill to 10 make up mind for or Balfour they thoy voted for Cor the tho party o of the LIberal because Was cheerful antI and confident They have voted for tM the UnIonIst parts this time because the tho Llo Lloyd George budget was something the they asked for or and want and they Voted for Cor the tho Unionist party also alo because they have grown weary or of seeing England the on only I free trade trado country In the world orld and they thoy see 1100 higher wa wages B and ond steadIer employment In a protective than tho they see In Inan inan an application or of the tho land lantI taxation theorIes or of the late lato Mr Ir George But they thoy voted neIther for nor against the lords because the conduct or of the lords wan WaD not II a real issue In tho All tho rho lords did was to lo take th Lloyd George budget as It was UI sent to thom then from rom the commons and tack on to 10 it this VOI very commonplace resolution That this house Is not justified III Ia giving its consent to this bill until It has han been submitted to the tho Jud judgment of It the country And the Iho ju judgment ot of the country hu eau been I the bill calmly this method ot of submitting a measure Ml and a L party part to the judgment of oC tho ho will be tC seen n to bo o Incomparably t Ic r mote mere l and moro more t to opinIon than Ihan the tho tho reC refer referendum r and the tho recall combined Some Somo day the tho lords as II a house hOUM ot of In meriting legislators will be mo modified and brou brought ht closer to the tho Opla a committee of oC lords recommend I such Il a m uro of oC reform 10 years ago but wo we will appreciate the English toleration Gr df their upper chamber bet bel belter better ter when wI wC compare comparo their rt re spat for Cor opInion with the but buttressed ll indifference of oC our own sonata natt To make our dur 3 senate nato an elective hoot hod would be a I prodigious task 1 lk man many ri rA rAOUr OUr states ho barn admitted its h by adopting legislation which evades tho rho Constitution b by providing for the nomInation o of senators b by direct marles maries but lh people of England could make the tho lordt elective by merely pos posing Ing an net act of oC parliament and Indorsing that net act at n a general election In the tho meantime It must be that your Englishman dearly lov loves a alord alord lord and thIs statement has to toll why h In such matters the truth is 18 occasIonally quite valuable |