BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 924, 29 November 1910, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

CAMPAIGN JOTTINGS,

London, November 27. The Duke of Marlborough, addressing a meeting, said that when he interviewed Mr Lloyd-George three years ago he did not suspect he would become a target for in. solenc and unsavoury invectiveTheu he thought Mr Lloyd-George a gentleman, but heseemed to have reverted to his type and become himself. What did the poor think of their sham poor man with ,£SOOO a year stirring up class hatred ? He reminded them of Mr Lloyd-George’s cowardly attack on the Lords through their ladies, an insult which affected oue of his own colleagues in the Cabinet. Mr Churchill, at Bradford, said there was nothing undemocratic in the referendum. Female suffrage might well be submitted to it. He believed a great iucrease of taxation on wealth, designed to alter the extraordinary disparity of the distribution of the burden of taxation, could be carried by referendum, and therefore it was no bar to Radical progress, but it might be unfair to minorities like the Welsh, Irish and Scotch, whose special points of view might be brushed aside through the indifference of the majorities in other parts of the United Kingdom. The stewards, in removing male suffragists from the hall, badly fractured oue man’s leg. Another male suffragist attempted to use a dog whip on Mr Churchill in a restaurant car on the Bradford to Loudon express. Special dectectives accompanying the Minister frustrated the design. Three women attempted a further attack on him at King’s Cross railway station. Sir F. Carson, Conservative, speaking at Liverpool, said the Government loathed that their measures should be referred to the people. The Lords compelled them to refer the Budget. After the election parliament waited months, but no Budget came, because Mr Redmond had to be squared. They bribed Mr Redmond to let the Budget pass, but Ireland determined there should be no second Budget, and to-day the Government dare not send Form IV. to Ireland. Irishmen had double the money in the Savings Bank compared with twenty years ago, but only gave Mr Redmond pence where the Americans gave dollars. The real question before the country was whether there should be an autocracy on any scratch majority of the Commons. He foretold that the men of the North of Ireland would never yield to the domination of the South.

Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, speaking at Goole, denounced the the stampede for an election in order to prevent the people fully apprehending the disastrous consequences of a wrong decision. Mr Redmond’s money from foreigners was being used to impose upon the English people a revolution they do not want. The smasher of Mr Asquith’s window is named Goodman, and is described as a barrister’s wife. She was fined £5, or a month’s imprisonment. Mr D, J. Rees, who recently seceded from the Liberal ranks, declared he had resigned a safe seat because at a moment like this he did not care a brass farthing about Liberal or Conservative. The election was being wantonly rushed because some few who loved the people to the tune of £SOOO a year saw their offices slipping from them. Mr Lansbury, Socialist candidate for Mile End, slates that the Tower Hamlets Labour candidates’ chief plank is: “ Work or maintenance.”

The moderate Liberals at Mile End are indignant at Mr Lloyd George advising them to support Mr Lansbury. They meet on Monday to consider the claims of the Liberal candidates. Some advise supporting the Unionists. The Anti-Socialist Union has despatched 150 speakers to assist in the fight for the general election.

Mr Bonar Law, addressing a meeting at Manchester, in reply to a heckler, who asked, “If the price of wheat is not raised how will the farmers benefit ?” replied : ‘ ‘ The proposal is not for protection, but for getting preference with the colonies. Ido not think farmers will benefit in the least.”

The Telegraph states that Mr Austin Jones will oppose Mr Lloyd-George at the elections. Mr Lloyd-George, speaking at Edinburgh, said: “If a referendum is taken on the Scotch Land Bill, it would be voted out by the English, Irish and Welch, who know nothing about the question. Two millions would be a moderate estimate of the cost of the referendum, whereof half a million would fall upon the ratepayers.”

In connection with Mr Austin Chamberlain’s address at the Liberal Unionist Council at Glasgow, the Council urged the laying down of two capital ships for every one commenced by the next strongest naval power.