RBITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 3

RBITISH POLITICS.

CABLE NEWS

THE LICENSING BILL,

IT’S ADOPTION IMPERATIVE

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 26. Liberals declare that the election at Peckham makes it imperative to pass the Licensing Bill, otherwise tho Government will lose all tho bveelections.

STORMY MEETING IN LONDON,

STIRRING SPEECH BY MR LLOY'D GEORGE.

United Press Association—Copyright (Received March 27, 10.43 p.m.) LONDON, March 27. Tho United Kingdom Alliance meeting at the Queen’s Hall was marked by uproarious proceedings and minierous opponents to tho Licensing Bui and suffragists were ejected.. Mr. Llovd-Georgo urged his hearers to examine the situation in a lurid light. Notwithstanding the Peckham election, the Government was not in tho least daunted. Tho Government was ready to stnko their existence on a stand between the liquor traffic and tho homes It desolated. The Peckham result was more than a political defeat; it was a social portent showing tho demoralisation the liquor traffic had wrought. Unless Britain’s virility is sufficiently strong to throw off this hypocrisy, the nation would tado to the squalid doom of a drunkard. If tlio Government knew they would be expelled from power a fortnight hence, when the division bell came tliev would rather fall, and on that fall stand up and begin the fight again, for they were only beginning, and they must- see it through. He recognised the Archbishop of Canterbury’s noble attitude, and. thought tho churches ought to unite on this question. If the great church which was the official guardian of the people's moral interests took the lead, every Nonconformist would follow.