Destructive Riot. Lord Salisbury Gives Cold Comfort to the Unemployed

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 145, 13 March 1886, Page 4

Destructive Riot. Lord Salisbury Gives Cold Comfort to the Unemployed

London*, February o. Tiie Maquis of Salisbury to-day received a deputation of unemployed workmen, who called to urge upon him the necessity for Government help. Lord Salisbury told tho mon he considered the question they presented more serious than tho Irish question. Ho, ho vvever, denounced the policy in voguo among foreign Governments of fostering industries by granting bounties from the public treasuiy, culling it faleo p >htioal eco nomy. He expressed the hope that the electois of Great Britain wou d givo Parliament power to influence foreign Governments to abandon such a policy Concerning the land question. Lord Salisbury said t'iy proposition to hep the I oar by furnishing land to reclaim was impncticablo, for tho roison that nobody would inve-t capital in the work of reclaiming bad lands so long as tho good lands of the country do not pay. In conclusion, the ox-l J remier declared that a tatestnen and Parliament muse copfiont the question of how beat to solve tho problem of roheving tho present general dib tress, which was growing while the population was increasing and caused immigration. Go vernrncntal support of private enterprise might be a good way to effect temporary relief, and the promotion of public works might be another. He would do his utmost to contnbuto to a eutisfactory solution of the problem.