CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.
LORD ROSEBERY ON THE LORDS,
Lord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh, in acknowledging a vote of thanks, said that two Ministers., had respectively compared the House of- Lords to a criminal lunatic and to the foolish virgins. He was aware that the Government was turning the key on the Lords and keeping them in subjection and confinement, and therefore treating them as criminal lunatics. The other metaphor was less applicable. Tho foolish virgins forgot to trim their lamps, while the Lords had been a year trimming their lamps, and one of the principal accusations against the House of Lords at that moment was its impudence at the eleventh hour in trimming its lamps, and presenting itself, wise and prepared, before the tribunal of the constituencies.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13909, 7 December 1910, Page 9
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