ENGLISH POLITICS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1910, Page 3

ENGLISH POLITICS.

1 SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. ON THE VETO "CONFERENCE AND THE BUDGET. Tin KLECTRIO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, August 20. Sir E: I ward Grey, Secretary f'oi Foreign Affairs, speaking at Berwick, said if tho veto conference should by any possibility result in solving the great political question by agreement tho country would be delighted, providing the settlement was fair.

Otherwiso the Liberals would resume the fight in the same spirit as at the last election.

Justifying the Budget, he contrasted the growth of trade in freetrade England, and the increased agitation in protectionist countries against the high cost of living. Ho emphasised the simultaneous increase in the Socialist vote saying that probation was a short cut to~ Socialism.

LABOUR MANIFESTO

" CURSE OF COMPROMISE."

At the end of July last four executive members of tho Independent Labour Party publishd a, manifesto, in ■which they declared that the party had succumbed to the curse of compromise, adding that Mr Ramsay Macdouald (Leicester) by his astuteness, had captured the Labour party to a revisionist policy. The majority of the members of the Council of the Independent Lahour party have now published! a manifesto in reply thereto Which describes the Labour Party as an honest and honourable alliance between Trade Unionists and Socialists. "As such it has advantages," states the manifesto, "some less advanced than others, but advantages overwhelming. The alliance is the greatest thing done in Britain towards federating the workers. "Co-operative Commonwealth is our goal," states the manifesto ,"hut it will be realised by patient plodding and not by noiso and shouting."