THE CRISIS IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 264, 15 December 1909, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN BRITAIN

THE GOVERNMENT'S ACHIEVEMENTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received December 14, 0.35 p.m. London, December 14.

Mr. John Burns (President of the Local Government Board), speaking at Battersea, dwelt on the Govvrnmeuis achievements on behalf of the workers, and declared that the State should prohibit married women from working.

TAXATION OF NECESSARIES. LEADS TO SOCIALISM. Keceived December 14, 9.35 p.m. London, December 14. Mr. Haldane (Secretary of State for War), speaking at Dunbar, said tho taxation of necessaries led to socialism, lie was in favor of Home Rule and women's suffrage.

PROMISE OK HOME RULE. BUT A LAWYER'S QUIBBLE. SINN FEIN'S DISSATISFACTION. Received December 14, 10 p.m. . . London, December 14. The Sinn Fein organisation remarks that by a lawyer's quibble Mr. Asquith repeats the attempt made in 1894 to scuirc Irish support whilst locking up Home Rule in a tomb; but he will now Hud enough intelligence in Ireland to demand that if Home Rule is his policy, Home Rule must have a place of its* own in the Government's programme.

TOWN PLANNING. A REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. Received December 14, 10 p.m. " London, December 14. Mr. John Burns, In a preface to the Daily Chronicle's pamphlet on the Housing and Town Planning Bill, declares that the act is a better remedy for unemployment in the building trades than any restrictive tariffs on timber or other building materials.

UNDESIRABLE ALTERNATIVE PROPOSALS. Received 14, 11.85 p.m. , London, December 14. Lord Avehury, in reply to a correspondent, eays that the Birmingham Post's alternative Budget proposals were very undesirable, but not impracticable. They were retrograde, reverting as they did to a system abandoned by Peel nn'l Gladstone on a report of a Commons committee in 1830. This committee found (Jiat the proposals were expensive, vexatious ana dilatory, involving delays which were in some'cases more injurious to commerce than the duties themselves. They would probablv produce enough to provide all expenditure, including the old-age pensions hitherto sanctioned, though they were in nowise a satisfactory means of doing so.

ELECTIONEERING MALPRACTICES. London, December 13, The Hon. J. A. Pease, a Liberal, addressing his constituents at Saffron Wilden, stud threats had been mode in his constituency, and in some cases he was informed that possibly notice would be given to certain tenant farmers and laborers that if they voted for him they would be ejected from their holdings and employment. Uhe agent bringing such pressure to bear was, he said, liable to penalties under the Corrupt Practice* A«t. i

MR. KEffi HARDIE'S VIEWS. London. December 13. -Mr. keir Hardie, speaking to his constituents at Merthyr, said he was a single chamber man. If the House of Commons made mistakes, let the people who created it call it to account

THE LORDS-"A DUMMY CHAMBER."

London, December 13. The Times' declares that Mr. Atqulth'i proposals would transform the House ot Lords into a dummy chamber. The Liberals demand unfettered power for five years to do what thev like. How they proposed to get that power, or who was) to give it, they did not say.

POLITICAL ACROBATS. London, December 13. Messrs. Burt and Fcnwiek, the miners' M.P.'s, seek re-election aB Liberals Sir John Turney, a Liberal leader at rv«ttinghnni, has joined the Tariff R«. forni Party.

TARIFF REFORM LttGED. y, , V, Lo«do«, December 13. Chamberlain, in a letter to the Manchester and Salford electors urging tariff refornp, said, " 1 hope we shell no longer slam tie door in the colonies 1 face. I believe thfftjlscal reform will bring our kinsmen across the water closer; they, at all events*, are quite ready for a change." \^

AN AUSTRALIAN \JE\V.\ Melbourne, December 14 Speaking at St. Francis Havier's Co/- . ge i ,° rd Dudle J'' Governor-General of Australia, said he hoped some day to return toa more active political life at Home. His Excellency declared he would never join any administration or take part in any party unless that administration or party was prepared to advance the prosperity and progress of Ireland. His political future, such «« if "■as would be bound up with Irish affaire,

IRELAND AND HOME RULE.

" A BLOW FOR FREEDOM."

tl. x ~.„ Lon <ton, December IS. Mr. J. Dillon, Nationalist member for Mayo East, speaking at Dungarvan, said | he could never believe that Ireland would pet fair play or justice from any English Government. As long as she m ruled by a British Parliament, Inland would be made to pay more than her share for Dreadnoughts and the army. If the Tories triumphed at the eleotlon they would want a great deal more money than the Liberals. He believed that for thirty years no such opportunity had been given for striking a Wow for freedom for Ireland as would be given during the next three yean.