BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 74, 17 March 1908, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

HIE EDUCATION BILL. Kiveivcd March lti, 11.23 p.m. ~,; ', Ul ", l l ia 'p" lontl ; »P»"tag »t ManI, 1 , ( i lB ? u " B,n e the Education 1111, declared that contracting out would place the Catholic schuols iS uu uS position. Unless* the grant were largely increased, Nationalists had decided to open tiie Home Kule campaign in W erv English constituency. THE UNEMPLuiMENT BILL. JOHN BURNS ATTACKED.

Received ICth, 11i23 p.m. At Socialist meetings at Battersea on I Sunday, Mr. John Burns was bitterly attacked. LMr. Maepherson, a Commoner, in a speech at Wereston, declared that Mr. Hums' speech sent a thrill of disgtiat throughout the House of Commous. A NEW LIBERALISM. A NEWSPAPER'S CONCLUSIONS.

Received March 10, 11.35 p.m. London, March 16. The Spectator considers that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Churchill, who were protectionists at heart, were anxious to form a new Liberalism on the basis of nationalising the railways and the canals and developing afforestation, in order to encourage home industries and to counterbalance the natural fluctuations of the woild made by means of bounties and other expedients. They were, the paper adds, unwilling to adopt tariff reform lest they should lie accused of stealing the Unionist platform.

LIBERAL DEFECTIONS. Mr. Whitely, Government whip, spending at Pudsey, aud referring (o the Liberal defections in Friday's vote, declared that a small section of Liberals were always in a state of semi-aociafism. They considered they were entitled to run with the Liberal hare and hunt with the Socialist bounds, and, though wedded to Liberalism, they were entitled to ilirt with Socialism in order to better their position with their constituents; "but they cannot," lie said, •'serve God and mammon. If the country thinks the Liberals are saturated or tainted with Socialism it will be deplorable. A split in the party is evidence that the Liberals will lose t' le support ol the vast bulk of moderate opinion that is already accumulating."

NEWSPAPER CRITICISM. Received 17th, 12.27 p.m. London, March 111. The Daily Chronicle rejoices over the rejection of the Bill for making unemployment chronic and creating a maximum disturbance to organised industry and at a cost to the State. In the course of the debate in the House of Commons on methods of dealing with the unemployed Mr. John Burns made a protest against the pauperising influence of indiscriminate relief, and told the following story: '•After his first levee at Buckingham Palace, and still wearing his Court dress, he took his place at 1 o'clock in the morning in the, long queue of three hundred or four hundred men who assemble nightly on the Thames embankment. He mixed with these men for two or three hours, and he was glad to say that they did not recognise him as one who had come fresh from the Palace of His Majesty. Me turned up the collar ot Iris co.ir, pulled his bowler over his eyes, aud looked as miserable as he could; and at the end of this long queue he, a Minister in receipt of £2OOO a year, held oat his luind and received his portion of soup and his pound of bread. Was that a discriminating kind of charity? London, indeed, was being damaged in the name of sentiment to such an extent as he had indicated. When a man knew that this sort of thing took place, what kind of incentive was being held out to any sturdy vagrant getting probably 6d, Bd, or 9d a day from certain sources to prevent him from coming up to Cmdou and swelling the ranks of the unemployed?"