ATTACK ON LANDLORDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 211, 12 October 1909, Page 2

ATTACK ON LANDLORDS.

A SITUATION' CHARGED WITH PERIL. MR. LLOYD-CEORGE HITS OUT. By Cable.—Press Assodation.—CopyrigM

London, October 10. Mr. Lloyd-George (CluincoUor of the Exchequer), speaking at Newcastle, said 'the more irresponsible feather heads among the Lords want to throw the Budget out. Poor Lord Lausdowne, who has a creaking old ship and a mutinous crew, told the crew he has to sail

through the narrows with one eye on the weather glass and the other on tic forecastle, file real sailing master is the chief Tory Whip, who is now trying tx) decide whether it is safe to shoot t'u albatross. The Budget's fate depends on the report froni the country." Concluding, Mr. Lloyd-George ga'd: "The Lords may decree revolution, but the people will direct it. If the constitution is torn to pieces, issues will he raised which the Lords little dreamed of. Who made ten thousand people owners of the soil? Who was responBible for the scheme whereby one engages in grinding down labor to eking out a precarious existence while another is rolling in unearned luxury; questions 'will be asked and the answer will he charged with peril for the ord«r of things which the peers represent." The speech contained an attack similar to the Limehouse speech upon landlords and instanced the largeness of profits upon laud sold to railways and municipalities nnd upon coal royalties, Mr. Lloyd-George, addressing'an overflow meeting of IHMMI, said he was glad the people were with the Government in the fight, lie had feared at the etart they might not realise in time how decjly their interests were bound up in tlie Budget.

GOVERNMENT AMENDMENTS. Received October 11, ft.4o p.m. London, October 11. One hundred ami eighty-two Government amendments to the first ]>urt of the Finance Bill have been tabled. B IT-ELECTION' TOR BERMONDSEV. Received October 11, 11 p.m.

London, October 11. The Socialists have selected Dr. Salter as their candidate for the liennondaey seat, which is regarded as u political barometer, indicating the feeling of the' constituencies. The Conservatives and Liberals are seeking candidates. The Conservatives will iirolialily arrange to transfer the seat |o .Mr. Assheton ' Pownall, a former I'nionist candidate for the seat, who is now in Australia, at the general election. THE IRISH LEAGUE'S PROPAGANDA London, October 10. The United Irish League has cabled to Mr. Redmond that America will respond generously to the appeal for as sistancc.

On Saturday Mr, Redmond was r(povtcd to have said a general election was certain in a few weeks. The Pall Mall Gazette slated that tlie Nationalists were desperately in need of funds.