LORD HALSBURY
the strength of the Second Chamber in America with the weakness of the Second Chamber in England.
With a shrieking multitude outside demanding the abolishment of every institution on which civilization is based, including literature and art, it is a little difficult to write rationally or temperately; but encouragement and hope can be found in the reported words of President Harding, addressed to the officers and sailors recently from the deck of the battleship Pennsylvania: "The United States of America does not want a thing on earth which does not rightfully belong to us—no territory, no payment of tribute—but we do want that which is righteously our own, and by the Eternal we mean to have it."
LORD HALSBURY.
To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette.
SIR,
It may be well to consider for a moment the qualifications of the man who seems to be destined to save the Constitution of this country from disgrace and ruin.
Lord Halsbury led the minority of seventeen Peers who voted against Lord Rosebery's resolution to abolish the hereditary privilege. In doing so, he simply recognized that man should not be deprived of the benefits which have accrued to him through the working of the laws of nature. His bold and defiant courage at the age of eighty-six is miraculous and awful. His career at the Bar, on the Bench, and on the Woolsack entitle him to the respect and obedience of his fellow-men.
As Lord Chancellor he was the Speaker of the House of Lords during a greater number of years than any of his compeers, and is, therefore, thoroughly competent to lead the House.
As a jurist of nearly sixty years' experience, he is able to defend, with integrity of purpose and singleness of aim, the functions of the second estate of the Realm from the attacks of sycophants and traitors, and the betrayal of cowards.
CONSTITUTIONALIST.
July 25, 1910.
Pall Mall Gazette.
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