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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1267, 24 October 1911, Page 5

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SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH. By Teletrrapli—Frees Association— Copyright London, October 22. The Primo Minister (Mr. Asqiiith), addressing a meeting of tho Rist Piio Liberal Association, said that t.ho rejection of tlio Budget by the House of Lords was its doat'li warrant. The Lords' place would shortly bo taken by n body relatively smaller, but relatively impartial, to which functions appropriate to the Second Chamber oi any democratic country could be confidently cutrusted. The year 1911, said th© Primo Minister, would "live in history as the year in which the greatest advance, had been made in popular government siuco the Reform Bill. The Government would, in the Home Rule Bill, scrupulously safeguard the minority. It would also deal liberally with vested interests and Welsh Disestablishment. MR. BALFOUR'S ADVICE. ADDRESS TO WORKING MEN. London, October 22. Mr. A. J. Balfour, Loader of the Opposition, speaking at tho Conservative Workingmcn'e Club at Edinburgh, said they should teach the rising generation that after nationnl defence they should place Imperial unity, and after that social reform. He charged tho Radicals of to-day with abandoning the theories of earlier generations and introducing simpler theories of their own. If they examined the speeches of Mr. Lloyd-George, for instance, they would find that he always measured tho benefits accruing to one class by the amount taken from the pockets of another class. MR. REDMOND AND HOME RULE. NO NEED TO PLACATE THE LORDS. (Rec. October 23, 10 p.m.) London, October 23. Mr. Rtdmond, Leader of tho Irish Nationalist part}-, in a speech at BaltinglasF, declared that English Ministers in tho past had always had to consider how to placate the House of Lords in framing their Homo Rule Bills. They were no longer thus hampered, and it was now only necessary for a Bill to pass the House of Commons in order to become law, in spite of tho House of Lords. Tho forthcoming Home Rule Bill would bo satisfactory to the Nationalists. The Irish party had no intention of killing the Insurance Bill, declared Mr. Redmond, adding, "We will amend it, and we'll pass it." ULSTER READY FOR A FIGHT. A STRUGGLE PROMISED. London, October 22. Mr. London (? Mr. Lonsdalo, Conservative M.P. for Mid-Armagh), speaking at Bolton, said the Homo Rule struggle would be the greatest since tho Civil War. There was a body of men in (ho North of Ireland equal to any aimy England could put in the field, Tho North was determined not to sell its rights and liberties without a struggle. THE L.S.D. OF HOME RULE. INTERESTING STATISTICS. The present fiscal union between Great Britain and Ireland i?—declared Profc* sor Oldhain, of Dublin University, at the recent congress of tho British Association—an ill-assorted one. Although now paying a taxation that was relatively even nioro unjust than seventeen years ago, Ireland was to-dny showing a deficit on expenditure of about H million sterling, whereas eighteen years ago she was contributing a surplus of about .£2,000,000, available for what was termed Imperial expenditure. Tho explanation of tho paradox was not far to seek. In the public finance of Ireland under tho Union there was nothing to co-relate revenuo with expenditure. "The position reached at the present time," he wont on, "is characterised by three inequitable features, vis.: (1) Groat Britain is now tributary to Ireland by about H millions, a figuro that is increasing. (2) Great Britain is also paying Ireland's proportion of Imperial burdens— Army, Navy, and National Dobt—a figure which may bo put at about X 2,000,000 (say, 20 per cent, of Irish revenue). (3) Ireland is paying into the common purso beyond her fair proportion, measured by "taxable capacity," an excess payment of abovo .£3,000,000 per annum. ARGUMENT FOR HOME RULE. These evils are being endured by both countries in order to maintain Government expenditure in Ireland at a figuro (.£11,314,500) which is auilo double what it ought to be. In tho course of 100 years Ireland, besides paying for tho Government expenditure in Ireland, hos sent across the Channel as her contribution to the British Exchequer a clear net payment of about .£330,000,000. This fact —tho British profit out of tho Union—is a simple deduction from tho calculation nvado by the Truasivry from tho calculation made by tlio Treasury of tho "contributed" revenuo and expenditure for every tenth year. "If it were possible to arrive at an incontrovertible conclusion rfpon airy Irish matter whatever," was Professor Oldham's summing-up, "I would submit the proposition that the present position of the public finances of Irelana is an insufferable injury and a grievance to both countries. Tho financial argument for Homo Rule was urgent fifteen years ago, at tho timo of the Financial Relations Commission, in tho interests of Ireland; but the developments of tho last fifteen years havo now mode it equally urgent in tho interests of Great Bridiin." ■— ■ ■