BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9097, 17 March 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

LIBERALISM AND 'SOCIALISM,

Press Association. —Copyright,

Received March 16, 11.58 p.m. ® London, March 16. |

Mr John Redmond, at Manchester, discussing the Education Bill, declared that the contracting out clause would place the Catholic schools in an unfair position, and that unless the grant was largely increased the Nationalists had decided to open a Home Rule campaign in every English constituency. At Socialist meetings at Battersea on Sunday Mr Burns was bitterly attacked.

Mr McPherson, M.P., in a speech at Wereston, declared that Mr Burns’ speech had sent a thrill of disgust through the House of Commons.

The Spectator considers that Messrs Lloyd George and Winston Churchill are Protectionists at heart, anxious to form a new Liberalism on the basis of nationalising the railways, canals, and the development of forestation, in order to encourage home industries and counterbalance the natural fluctuations in tiro outside world by means of bounties and other expedients, but they were unwilling to adopt tariff reform lest they should be accused and adjudged guilty of stealing Unionist thunder. Mr Whitley (Government Whip), speaking at Pudsey, and referring to the Liberal defections on Friday’s vote, declared that small sections of I the Liberals who were always in favour of a state Jof semi-socialism considered that they were entitled to run with the Liberal hare and hunt wnth the Socialist hounds. Though wedded to Liberalism they thought they were entitled to philander and flirt with Socialism in order to be in a better position with their constituents, hut they could not serve God and Mammon. If the country thought that the 'Liberals were saturated or tainted with Socialism it would cause a deplorable split in the party and they would lose the support of the bulk of the moderates—an opinion for which evidence was already accumulating. The Chronicle rejoices in the rejection of the Bill for making unemployment chronic, creating a maximum disturbance to organise industry and cost to the State. THE PREMIER’S HEALTH. Received March 17, 9.45 a.in. London, March 13. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had a condition is much the same, but his weakness isconsiderable. THE LICENSING PROPOSALS. The President of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants states that even if the time limit to licenses be just lit will be commercially impossibleffmless accompanied by reduction of taxation.