TO SMASH THE VETO.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 5

TO SMASH THE VETO.

: —* , LIBERALS AND LORDS. : TAXING Y/EALTH AS TO ITS ORICIN. FIGHT TO A' FINISH. (Uy Telegraph.-Press AB*oclallon.-OnpyrlcbU •. ' (Rec. September 6,,9.13 p.m.); London, September 6. ; Speaking at Leicester, Mr..' .Winston Churchill, President of-the Board of Trade, said that tho great difficulty that confronted a, speaker at Liberal Budget, Leaguo meetings was that ho had nobody to reply to. '"Thoir Employers, tho Brewers.'! ' It was true, said-Mr. Churchill, that Mr.' Balfour from time, to .tiino emitted four or five columns of inspired equivocations, which tho.chief newspapers hastened io acclaim as another opoch-making pronouncement. h was also true that the small fry of the Tory party had beon : splashing actively 'n th<sir proper . puddles; and. ho only hopsd that their performances had given satisfaction to their employers, the brewers, and the ground; landlords.- Tho millionairo . newspapers' were so painfully conscious of tha absonco df a Tory spokesman capable, cf answering .the, Limehouso speech," of tho Chancellor of the . Exchequer (.Mr. Lloy.lGcorge)—dealing, with ,the stewardship, and obligations of landowners—that tlicy wavo inclined to. tako up Lord Rosobory., Fullasf Forfoito from l.oscr. ]; ' The Government did' not ask tho rich .how much ' they." had, : but how : tlicy ' got their I'riches.- Taxation according to the origin of . wealth was a. .now 1 idea, and no wonder , it raised a groat' stir' arid caused heart' 'scarclir Lings.; :Mr./Churchill continued;... .. . "If tho:Lords'win they .will have asserted their right to control- tho finances of the dountry;lf they lose, we 'will smash, their | voto to pieces.' Tho; fight will bp a'fight to a finish, and the fullest forfeits'will bo oxacted from tho defeated foe.". ._ ' [Tn his Limeliouse 'spoecli. on. August; 1, Mr. Llovd-Gcorgo xvas reported,'as sayiiiß that land; waß-riot merely for enjoyment, but for stewardship.' Unless '.the landlords 'discharged, . tho duties 'attaching to ownership, the time , would coma to consider the conditions' under .which 1 •land was held. ? Continuing, tho Chancellor said' his resolve lin.-frnnting' tho Eudg'et was that no cupboard -should" he briro,- and-no lot'hard, to boar. .Criticisinß'.this speech,'-Mr. Walter Long' (president .of tho' Unionist ' . Protest LcaguoV rogavded it as iridicatini? tha determination Of tho; Liberals to destroy . the great landed and; propertied "classes,, and to Use. tlio Budget for purposes of-Socialism,-, not.'finance.] PROSPECTS OF DISSOLUTION. ELECTION IN JANUARY. 'London, September 5. ; The nowspapers Tare discussing tho possibility;'of,; a ; : gonerai;:electipn ,: iii January." ■ | "... A'groat meeting of Liberal agents. T/as held .yesterday .to discus's tho ;6utlodk. , . /. '