LIBERALS AND THE LAND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1566, 9 October 1912, Page 7

LIBERALS AND THE LAND.

* WAR ON THE ARISTOCRACY. MR. LLOYD-OEORGE AGAINST SINGLE TAX. DIVIDE© OPINIONSBr Telecraph—Press Association— CossvlzMK , (Rec. October 8, 11.55 p.m.) ; London, October 8. At tho Liberal parly's conference on tho land question, Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, M.l', for Barnard Castle, claimed that Mr. Asqnith had limited tho political power of the aristocracy and was going to limit its economic power. The speech met with a mixed reception. Mr. Arnold Lupton appealed to {he conference not to commit themselves to a policy which would wreck the Liberals. This appeal drew cries of: "We will risk it!" - The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, will speak at Swimlon on October 26 in , response to a memorial from ten thousand agricultural labourers. Mr. Lambert, M.P., speaking at Chawleight, in Devonshire, ridiculed the Single Tax .'and stated that Jlr. Lloyd-George had authorised him to say that there was not the remotest possibility of his be-', coming a Single Taxer, and that metre- I over he (Jtr. L!oyd-George) did not believe that they could regenerate agriculture'by taxing it, On the contrary, ho had entered on the land inquiry with a view to -lessening the burdens upon progressive cultivators. . . ,