A PLAIN-SPOKEN PEER.
Lord Portsmouth, in a letter ,says he cannot support a policy of pandering to snobbery and jobbery by maintaining the Lords as a living corpse in a gilded cage, as a corrupting bait for party doles of the wealthy. He writes of tlie fraud of democratic professions on the'lips and aristocratic aspirations in the heart* "The nation is relying oir a second .Ghamber which is a sham.: I should prefer to abolish it and Select a Senate/ •.- ' i : /
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7932, 14 December 1909, Page 2
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81A PLAIN-SPOKEN PEER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7932, 14 December 1909, Page 2
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