Show i Z IJ LABOR On MAKING JilG IJA LAWS I S. i Great Great changes have b been cn ma made e In Inthe II the British house of parliament parlament f Labor r leader le leadens der In numbers great oZ 1 to i control I legislation I on I have ve vei i i J lal taken cn Uler sal in III the tt ancient chamber cham chain ber bert and are arc f full fulls ll t the equals of the i titled and conservative and wealthy tc livo 4 gentlemen who have been heem exclusive holders of or that honor for Cor so so man many I ie f yea cart s. i-s. y J Nothing so radical has been known I. I since the time of Cromwell In those days parliament was made up uT of or royalists of the most exclusive type Above all an things the hated the l commons although this house was I established for tOI a 0 purpose of or giving r the common people a representation r f And the tho bitterest reflection of the olden members s who retained their f i I places places' In the overthrow which Cromwell Crom well vell wrought tint that sit It wel was they must beside men of common birth men who had worked for a n living and who know m w little of or courts and care cared less for or I kings i In time the times that hat followed the tho naI na nal nation na- na l I tion ton adjusted Itself The Tho commons was what the name implied The In Influence ini In i I fluence of or the producing class in the 1 K management o of the thc nation naton was evi J e d dent nt And that It was beneficial can c hard hardly be questioned for there ha has never been a brighter page pago In English history y than that of the century which f. f followed the rise and fall fal of o Cromwell Si V An And that fact should be tho the ani only needed justification of the common i citizen cn In parliament f Naturally through the years that thai 1 havo have followed the thc line lne of or demarcation demarc- demarc demarca r ton tion has grown distinct again Th The Ie benches of ot parliament have o become becomer r more and more a place for fOl gentleman gentle genUe- m man mft n of Jol leisure uro Men who rea really I know the tho needs of the l kingdom be- be r j-r cau cause e of their s1 sharing In II Ul those e needs z 4 havo have had 1 less and I loss part in the mana management of government Ho It 1 has become the lie career carer of rich men th the t I 1 I IIo sphere of oC ambitious younger er sons SOIlS who Io possess ess ability tr but hut will wi never nC have a n title tte Without noting the effect so o gradual has been the thc change It Is likely the condition obtaining In the thc theIn theIn In the English parliament of or HIO 1905 was 01 as much like IH that of oC Charles I. I r so far a as keeping In touch with the needs of oC the nation naton was wa concerned And tho the bringing of a greater grenter number of wa wage earners e bread winners m men en with wih hard hands anti and hard heads heads will wI act as the tonic l by which tho thu old naion nation naton na na- na- na ion tion ton will wl become rejuvenated There Thero Is no l erl to Great Britain In lie present situation There would hae have been leen peril peri In nn any other course In the sound sense and undoubted patriotism of the men Who vho have been Identified with wih the practical cal problems of or state tate every c dopart- dopart ment melt of state life will wI be 10 strength strength- ened There will wiil wi be less les red d tap tape and ane more common sense less les extravagance sauce gance alce and more value received than there has been before It I Is the tho manhood manhood man nIne hood of or the nation naton coming comIns Into Its Is own It I may be In a measure offensive offensive ofen- ofen offen offen- sive for Cor certain prou proud gentlemen winning a seat by icy t a n decreased majority majority ma ma- to find as mates mata men who have havo I lInt Hut i ithe never been been In a drawing room the wilt will wi be the better betler beter for forthe or orthe O the thc contact contact contact- as Indeed will wi the the theother other It I Is a 0 better beter day for Cor or England who the bills bills bills- when tho tIle people pay 8 scan J them heni thom |