KING AND PEOPLE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1910, Page 3

KING AND PEOPLE.

<9 MR KI'IR II AUDI I']'S SI'EICCH. ]) 1 SCOUXTEX ANCIvI) BY A M IXI ST Eli. SUGGESTED IMPULSION FROM Til 15 HO US 10. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [PER press association.] LONDON, May o. Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Jietlford, said that it was untrue 'that the Governnien't had bargained in order to secure the Irish votes for tho Budget. .Mr Asquith's declaration regarding the Sovereign had been perfectly consistent. The Government had said nothing committing them to give any particular advice to the King. It had only said it would bring the matter to an issue one way or another. .Ministers Jiiust not >ask the Sovereign to do ithev must give him advice, for which they were responsible. If the Sovereign did not accept it, the Government could tender other advice or resign. Under no circumstances would they attempt to put the Sovereign in a position which was not- constitutional and which he should not occupy.

Sir Edward Grey added that Mr Keir Hardin's speech seemed to imply -a menace against the King, but the speech had nothing to do with the actions or intentions of the Liberal Government.

Several Unionist .Members of Parliament and others accuse Mr Ke-ir Hardie, Labour Member for Merthyr Tydvil, of falsely swearing the oath of -allegiance to lung Edward in order to secure his seat in the Mouse of Commons.

Tlit> f| 11 (.'.sit ion is being a.skivi whether it is possible to expel .Mr Keir fin I'd it* from the House.

[In a recent speech Mr Keir Hardin said that loyalty to the Throne was a great superstition, and was very advantageous to the ruling powers, but iif mattered nothing ftrthe working classes whether the official head of the State was King or President.]