. The Liberal : party; has travelled, away from tlie Gladstone - -. No one ever put more, emphatically; than Gladstone "the imperative necessity., for /'a Second Chamber with real power to : revise : and' check the .proceedings r of the # Ho"use of Commons whenthey outrun the sentiments and, interests' of tlie people. /did:tius' even,in.-tile,,midst,of,-a quarrel \vitli? the House of; Lords, • though it; must be admitted . tlintV after.-the rejection, of. Ms, Homo'-Rnlo.-Bill. in, 1893, .he uttered; words- of. yaguo . menace, against; that House.' -But now the avowed .object of. the*.-Liberals.;is to -destroy.-all :power,.of check and .revision;. while leaving nnira potent - .-House. of Lords ... partly '.to 'beguile thV.nation into thinking that it baasome. constitutional- check upon a cHawo! majority, and partly it may. be supposed, to provide *mean£4br.> 'replenishing patty-: funa6.r-"Tlie' Times/'=■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 8
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