THINGS SAID.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 646, 25 October 1909, Page 5

THINGS SAID.

Mr.. Haldane (Secretary of State, for .Watj.-f;!'.'' ! ; It is not. for nothing that 'Lord Kitchener, is- - ' ' going to represent the War, Office in* Australia 1 ■ and New Zealand, and then going to the com-.' • ! 1 mand'in .the Mediterranean with the duty of . organising the troops throughout"South Africa! .., ,' and.the still larger duty of working out the'. , plans and necessary concentrations in case, the.;'- j. Empire 1 should be attacked. The Empire .for... * defence is one and indivisible,. and wherever', the theatre of war may be, we shall have the forces of the Empire so organised' that, they : .'.'/.- i can be concentrated wherever the field maybe,; j i and that plans'for our mutual defence may be' :'•■■• worked out by one-Erapire.v.';',-. ' '..■■;. '•'••,'-..•'"■ ' Lord Jlosebery.—Tho gardener,iby the,nature -."-.. ,".• 1 of his. occupation, is, ,or. should .be, .physically; ' > i: and : intellectually and morally the'best of our "•' rural population.- Ho has. the closest inter-/'■•? course with our mother earth,'without the in-. -'.'■ ' cessant..labour of the-plough. His .task is: to'; v. ' explore and to watchall her secrete;; If: I woro: ■ a:.ruler, which I thank heaven I" am - not, II;-": ■■'.;'■ would ,do.all I-could to' multiply and increase? , such men.; .., ~ "i 1 . ..:',.!.,';■■'.;. ,;',,;"■•'■'. 'i'\'■!"''■ : '-v '■■'■ Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P.—lt-has always been . ' . tho duty of a Chancellor ofxtho Exchequer to -.v :','■ .treat the whole of: the, community with- grave v '. and responsible impartiality. He is expected to just arbitrator,'.adjudicating for the..'.' : ; forty-nvo .millions of- pooplo before; him, and- '•■ '■',' : against no man should,his hand be raised in'..' i' ■ p, unl ™ m ent,or. penalty; Jtr:-:Lloyd-Cteorge tis iV -' :, .the. first .of, our Chancollors of.the Exchequer': '-. '™, m ?. ,: ? a Budget with a .political.purpose/andv , a political-purpose greater. than tho .financial :»' .purpose, and. to coax, and whoodlo'and flatter'' ; tho working man by,setting him against, tho ■ " man who does not work' with Ms hands. ■? ,; '' ; ;'; J .Sir Edward 'Grey (Secretary of Statei for '' ' ' l'oroig'n Aifairs}.-!'.should not wish it to'bo-' '', supposed that any, taxation can :be: levied with- - : ' ! ' : out some tendency to'■'diminish "employment. : - BM this Budget will raise, the u.ouey required " while/inflicting as littjlo;, hardship as is possible. : • ,