People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — SALISBURY’S ANSWER. [ARTICLE]

SALISBURY’S ANSWER.

He Speaks In Edinburgh in Reply to Lord Rosebery. London, Oct. 31. —Lord Salisbury, speaking in Edinburgh Tuesday evening, replied to Lord Rosebery’s speech against the house of lords. The prime minister, he said, had no more power than anybody else to determine the subject which would be referred to the voters on the next election. If the liberals would only drop this ruinous Irish policy the parties in the house of lords would be found more evenly balanced than ever before. He must warn the people earnestly against an unrestrained representative chamber. Urging new theories prompted cowardice. He did not believe Rosebery was in earnest in his proposed resolutions regarding the house of lords. He said a bill embodying such, proposals would never be accepted by the house of lords and therefore would never be recognized by the courts of law. No such change in the constitution was possible without a considerable majority of the people in its favor.