BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 183, 7 September 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

A NEW IDEA IN TAXATION. ~|| : A FIGHTING SPEECH. | MR. CHURCHILITATTACKS THIS ¥' UNIONIBTS. -j By Gable—Pross Association. —Copyrigi .Received September 11, 9.15 p.ro.* * London, September 0Mr. Winston Churchill, I'reaideul of the Board of Trade, speaking at Leicester, said the great difficulty that eonfftnted a speaker at the Budget Leigue meetings was that he had nobody to reply to. It was true that Mr. Bal- . (our from time to time emitted 'our m or five columns of inspired equivocations, which the chief newspapers hastened to acclaim as "another epochmaking pronouncement." The small fry of the .Tory party bad been splashing actively in their proper puddles. He only hoped the performances had give! satisfaction to their employers—the brewers, the landlords, and the millionaires. The newspapers' were so painfully conscious of the absence of » Tory spokesman to answer Mr. Lloyd-George's Lintehouse speech on August Ist that they were inclined to take up Lord ]{o9cbcry. The Government did not wk the rich how much they had, but how they got their riches. Taxation according to the origin of wealth was a new idea. It was, he (Aid, no wonder that it raised a, great stir and caused hurt searchijigs. "A FIGHT TO A FINISH."

Received September £, 10.50 pjn. London, September 4. Mr. Churchill continued: "If the Lord* win, they will have asserted their right to control the finances of the country. If they lose, we will smash their veto to pieces. The fight will be a fight to a finish; the fullest forfeits will b» exacted from the defeated foe." POSSIBILITY OF A GENERAL ELECTION. GREAT MEETING OF LIBERALS. i London, September 8. Newspapers are discussing the pout ji bility of a general election in January. A great meeting of Liberal agent* ' was held yesterday to discuss the "fit : * , look. ARTHUR LYNCH RETURNED T6 PARLIAMENTS London, September 5. Mr. Arthur Lynch, aa ex-Boer officer, i. has been returned unopposed for the -j. West Clare seat in the British Houte of Commons, in place of the late Mr, 3. "■ Hatpin, a Nationalist. f , *