BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8101, 4 May 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

SPEECH BY MR BALFOUB. CAUSTIC BEVIEW OF THE SITUATION. Received 3,10.54 p.m. London, May 3.

Mr Balfour, addressng the primrose League m the Albert Hall, said a coalition of discordant elements, aiming at different ideals, animated by different principles and following different leaders, had defeated the Unionists. '

Unfortunately the Government was obliged to conciliate Arst one section and then another, at the expense of the general welfare of the community.

The Irish were momentarily con. tent with shadowy promises. When the fulfilment of these vague expectations was claimed, difficulties would arise, big with evil to the Nation and the Empire. The Government had already threatened one great colony with a polioy menacing the basis of the whole of the Colonial Empire, and disturbing an industry vital to South African pros'perity.

The Premier (Sir H. CampbellBannerman) ran away from the policy embodied in his own Trade Disputes Bill.

The Education Bill had lit a flame of indignation from one end of England to the other. If passed, it would become a monument of intolerant folly, and relight the fires of religious bitterness. The creation of a Welsh Education Board conference in the Principality was the beginning of Home' fiule.