IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

TRAFFIC IN TITLES. ■ By Electric Telegraph—Copyright l Times and Sydney Sun Services, London, May 21 Mr Locker Lampson, in .Introducing his Bill, said the acquisition of titles and honors by rich nobodies had become a crying; Scandal. If a gave £30,000 to the party funds in the hope of translation to'the House of Lords, ho invariably said he did not want to become, a lord, but that his wife wished to be a lady. The successful sale of sausages did not entitle a man to sit in the same House beside Lord Roberts. While the Chancellor catered for the millions, the Chief Whip catered for the millionaire. The House of Lords was only a Mecca for snobs. 1 :

Mr Hogg, M.P. for Edinburgh, opposed the Bill. He said- they' wanted to preserve the nobility; apa the infusion of fresh blood would save their decline. There was also the question of maintainiugf; the drama, whence nobles could recruit ladies as a reward for their efforts. HEREDITARY TITLES. London, May 21. In the House of Commons, Mr A. Ponsonby introduced a Bill to provide for the termination of hereditary titles.