COBDENITE SOCIALISM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 7

COBDENITE SOCIALISM.

"\;.; : 'unionist!;on budget. ' : . tariff reform and ; the empire. (By Tciesraph-l'ress Asaoolatlriii-Copyright.) '; : '.-"'.; '- (Rcu. December- 9, 10.20:■ p.m.) London, December 9. Speaking boforo tho Constitutional Club, Mr., Geo. Wyndliam, formerly Unionist Chief Secretary for Ireland, declared that the real question undorlying tho Government's threat against the' House of Lords was whether tho electorates were to bo committed to tho policy iof the Budget and against tariff reform without ; haying'tho opportunity of saying which they •'preferred. '••' . . ' ..-..■ . . ! The polioy of tariff reform alone assured thp Empire tho means of meeting the urgent needs of defence, employment, and. unity. He could hardly call the Budget a policy. It was a rehash of stale Cobdenism, spiced with a littlo Socialistic' seasoning. ... . . ~ • WRITTEN.CONSTITUTION ADVOCATED. ' ■ : '; ; WITH.REFERENDUM; : ' . : 'i : :, London, December .8. Mr. ■'■, A. Emmbtt ..(Chairman of ,Ways, and Means in the House of. Commons),' speaking i at Oldham, said the present was-a great chance ] to have a written Constitution. Thoy . might add something like a referendum, or a method ; irllercby the people would be able to give a direct -mandate. .-•' . : ■■■''■. . . ■ ;■•.-,. •■ .-; ■MR. JOHN: BURNS BREAKS SILENCE. : ■■...• [: London, December 8. . Mr."-John Burns, President of-the Local Government; Board, has broken a long silence, by speaking at Battersea Borough. He ho would never; recover from tho stigma if they, rejected him. • He had been hard at work on the Housing and Town-> Planning Bill.f.and would now show au energy that would astonish tho constituency;.v' ~ . ■,-, ;.'■■'.- . ■'. .-'. - Thougli Mr. Burns, attacked, tho House of Lords, he, did hot refer to tho Budget.' .'; ,: . THE "FINANCIAL INTERREGNUM. > ■t. •' . .; (Rec. December. 9, .10.20 p.p.) -, ;: ■. ~:■'::. ■'..-■ ; London, December 9.:, I The Inland Revenue Department suggests that.bankers, coupon dealers,' and agents entrusted with- the payment, of foreign and; colonial.; dividends should continue to deduct incoinb'tax.'at.the rate of Ud.j pending the in.trbductioir.of; another Budget.. : Bankers'. and others.-'aro! likely: to' adopt'tho recommendar lion.'''-.-.--v : !', : .':. ; -:. ■■••.- '■: .' : - : ■ '.'■.■■•.• ."■, [■■'■: ■■■■;■'■: ..■