A POLITICAL OSTRICH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1907, 15 November 1913, Page 5

A POLITICAL OSTRICH.

UNIONIST LEADER ON MB. HMD GEORGE. LAND PROPOSALS ATTACKED By Tolecrapli-PWis iteod.ai,i<ra*-Cop;7ris:'irt (Rec. November 14, 11,10 p.m.) London, November 14. Mr. Bonar Law (tho Unionist Leader), in a speech, declared, that while recfignisiug \ho importance of the Tariff Hoform question, it sank into insignifieanco in tho presence of other daiigers which were threatening tlio country. Inferring to the-land campaign, ho said that, apparently, Mr. Moyd-Georgo had been sent out into tho cold world alone, to si.uk or to swim.. . The Chancellor' had previously likened Minsetf to a. stormy petrel, but, thought the speaker, lie more resembled an ostrich dropping its figgs on the sand and leaving their subsequent fate to the wind, or the sub. Tho land tax was an egg which yielded £223,000, and cost £1,390,000 iti valuations and collections. The Insurance Bill was another egg which was causing nianv of tlia great Friendly Societies to dtsft rapidly into insolvency, i'ke greatest egg, however, was tho campaign against tho landowners. 'Hie Government should havo endeavoured to siieufe tins c&-oper«tioft of all classes interested in land, in* stead of instituting a caralm.igri against on® particular class. ■When tho Unionists got into power, said Mr. Bonar Law, they would impose a 10 per cent, tariff on all foteignmanutactßrßd goods, and give the overseas Dominions preference. They would devote a. portion of tho revenue to lighten tho burdens on agriculture.