LORD ROSEBERY.

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

LORD ROSEBERY.

.::;..and ; ,the liberal league.; ; ; . (By MeariphU-Prcis , AsssctaUon.-Copjr'lehU •■ ■ ■ (Rec. Septombor 21 ; , ,10.5' p.m.): '■"', ; . . l , - ■!■■■'.' . :;_- .London, 'September 21.' . ' Lord ; Rosobery.attended a meeting of.ctho Executive.of the Liberal League. /It is understood that ho advised that the, League 'should, be:dissolved,-(.a(id declared that', this, should ..have been done after, the"'general, election,•.'■wh'enV;it-.Would have ■ !saved -.the Liberal' party from,.committing'itself (?io. Sooialisni),.and the Imperialistic policy would have-secured the return of 60 or 70 members,. ■-. The -meeting. referred;the decision to the Council .of the .League. .'; : " . '•■.-■• : . iThis" cablegrnm seems to liave heen mutilated in transmission. ' The' Liberal. League's purpose, according to Lord. Hosebory himself, was to oppose/Socialism'with a "sane Imperialism." Then, again, 'it. stood between the parties" by bracketing Free-trade, with "No Irish Parliament." -■'■ In 1907, he was reported as eaying: "Great Britain would never tolerate a tax on foodstuffs .and a' separate Parliament in Ireland.: -Yet tho Tory party, was almost entirely .identified with. one of these policies, and the Liberal party much too largely identified with the; other.' That. was. why he.rejoiced in 'the continuance of ..the. Liberal-, League/'. Why' then, •: the. present talk of a dissolution "after tho general election," which took place , in 1906 ?J ... - ■ ' ■