SOCIALISM DENOUNCED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 19

SOCIALISM DENOUNCED.

LONDON, January 21. Sir. Henry Fowler (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), speaking at Wolver- ; hampton,' made a strong pronouncement \ 'against Socialism, which, he said, was advocated by well-meaning men who had not thought the question out. ' MR CHURCHDLL AT MANCHESTER: LONDON, January 24. ; Mr Winston Churchill, \speaking at Manchester; condemned 'the cattle-driving s tomfoolery in 'Ireland as deplorable, dis- * reputable, and utterly, foolish. -He that. an old-age pension scheme -would Ibe ■ the chief business of this session. ' He rejoiced at the reunion of the Irish^ party.-' . . - ■-- ' rThe Government's naval proposals, without being of a panic nature or truculent, would yet prove adequate to secure effective protection. Britain's ability to build ships far quicker than any two or three other Powers put together was Te cognised. While prepared to go a long way towards "establishing a minimum^ standard of life, he was confident that any attempt to replace the existing organisation of society by' an official hierarchy such as the Socialists contemplated must end in failure. " -MR BALFOUR'S PREDICTION. LONDON, January 24. Mr Balfour, addressing the City of liondon Conservative Association, predicted an early and violent revulsion of feeling against the resulto of the late general election. The Government's pro- - fessions in Tespect to social reform were only a thin cloak under .which it meant to-"attack the classes or the interests against which it felt political animosity. NEW LABOUR PARTY. -_ . LONDON, January 24. . Preliminary . steps' are being taken to_ form ,a Non-Socialists Labour party in Britain. - The Westminster Gazette declares ' that the Socialists' academic tiiumphs are likely to produce a similar catastrophe to that which overwhelmed Continental Socialism, and will probably put Socialist reforms- back another genera- t