Political Situation at Home

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4499, 4 December 1909, Page 2

Political Situation at Home

TOE PEOPLE OR THE PEERS SOME STRAIGHT TALK London, December 2. The National Liberal Federation has issued a manifesto to the electors in which it states that the issues involved in the present crisis are as giave as any in the life of the oldest voter. The victory of tho Tory party will involve the degradation of the Commons and aggrandisement of the Lords, and return to protection with its inevitable taxes on food. The electors have to decide whether it is their wish to govern themselves or to be g.-verned by a few hundred hereditary Peers, who have thrown the constitution into the melting pot in order to shift the burden from wealth, land and liquor, to food and the necessaries of life. London, December 2. Air Joseph Chamberlain, in a message to the Tariff Demonstration at Shoreditch, said be was counting on tho democracy of the East End to help in the big struggle before the country. I London, December 2. The Oppposition newspapers comment on the rise in the British investments of securities consequent upon the re-! jeotionof the Budget by the House of Lords. 1