A LIBERAL WITHDRAWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 7

A LIBERAL WITHDRAWS.

':/■'■ v:V^ : s'. ;; ". ,! . ; »'"',,.'■■■ >Y"'■:•.■■''" :; :/■ ■.•'■:' the CHiEI? AVHIP'S.BROTHER.;/, -v : ■ (By.'iToießraph-Tresa .Assopiation-Coiiyrißht.), i'.;/ :.: ; ' "y \ ■ Londohj September -20. ;•;.! ./Sir.Alfred Pease (who is a brother of'the;l ~Chief;:LiberaL-AVhip,-.Mr..' : J.:.A./ Pease, .and -,whb sat" in the .House; of Commons for-twelve-'years' its a: liberal member) has, withdrawn, his .support' from the Liberal party -.owing' to the-. Goverriinent's /financial aiid social pqlicy.' , '4-r DEFECTION -ON EACH SIDE; ',> ■', Sir-Alfred Pease, son of .the latff, Sir.'Joseph Pease and'brother of tho Chief .Literal .Whip, survived -the-Liberal Home Bule split of 1886, butt has gone, out , of tho: party- owing to the .Budget-of■■■l9o?.". He ■ represented Ybrk,,City';as ; a Literal from! 1885. to 1892, and from 1897: to 1902."represented. Cleveland in the : .Libetal intqrestv. 'Ho 'has: travelled a'.lbt nnd has shot big,'game ; in .Africa.; His hunting; nnd, shooting tastes are 6hared by his .brother, • the -Whip',; who," however,: does not ,go so'far afield,.havins.his timo fairly occupied with keeping: thbliiberals' of. the'- Cpmin'one in lino V"'.';; ■■■■'■■ : ;";'~:. : ;'y':-- // v - .:'.i : --.^:■■'■']■■'"':-. While Sir Alfred.Peasb,i\;ho is not just now in Parliamentj-' has;;withdrawii from: the 'Liborals," Jlr.- Alex;,; Cross,.',a member; of -the Coihmons," has just ■ crossed the floor frbm the Unionist to the Liberal side. ' Unlike Sir Alfred' Pease, Mr. Cross- turned- from -the Liberals tff I- the' Unionists at'-.tho' 'tiiiab -. of .the Home -Rule split.. How he comes back again;is' told in his own words:—;.'.■!: - 1 .■'■„ -■ ■:. '■-./',•.■'.' ! -.:"I,"-.h'avc/been 'forced out. of ; the..Unionist party." : ' All. my life I have been, a' Liberal,■ but when 'tho Irish split-came! I dided with the Unionists.: 'Now fhtre' is no' Unionist -party;it- is. Conservative ;and Tariff .Reform.- There is-no room in it for either ■ Freo-traders or Liberal Unionists:,: Sir "A. Acland-Hood'eimply dropped ni».: -'Ho' did not even ask me if be should -continue sending me the WMps.whioh is the ordinary courtesy observed. . He stopped sending, them remark.- ■'■.'.•■-. : ..<• "As:o. Liberal.and a Unionist I hive always held to my opinions l on licensing,' house letting (in whioh I, have taken', a great interest), the land tjuestion,'and Free-trade. . Because 1 cannot agreo with themVon' the last-named matter,l nm. told ,tp,my. face that, tho Unionist party does not,:want:me. , I- have, therefore, gone, and though I-am. sitting on the Labour benches; it is "as a supporter of the Government. ;,•: :■ .■■•■•■ ■ •/■ ■■': ■-.-■■ : : : ./:■ . •.-.,..

'The-.Unionist party-got , -on very well when if had-.'.a; large -number,of mini of different opinions on 'many, subjects all'. working together for a. common object, but no party cantiffotdto shed a section here, chop off a piece there, and.generally.-try.to reduce everyone to the same enforced shape." .■'-''. ■■'■■'■ , • Sir •• A. ..Aoland-Hood,-,Unionist Whip, points out that; the time Mr. Cross quitted the Unionists, the latter had voted on , the Budget forty ;,times-siiDporting,: the; party twenty-sh times .and opposing them twelve timee. '