THE CRISIS IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 265, 16 December 1909, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN BRITAIN

THE LORDS' PROPAGANDA. ,• By Caule.-Press A*sooiation.-aw ,l a** Received December IS, 8.45 pjn. London, December 15. Representative peers continue to address meetings daily. Fifty furtw meetings are arranged to be held before the issue of write. ■■

IMAGINARY WEALTH. ; .# A DUKE'S PROTEST. Received December 16, 8.45 pjn. London, December 15. The Duke of Norfolk, speaking at Taunton, protested against Radical newspapers continually harping np° B the immense wealth of the peers. "They credit me," he said, "with a coloswl income, which exists only in the writers' imagination. Lords «*cu*d constantly of rejecting Bills, but during the last four sessions 600 Bills became law, and many of these were vastly improved by the Lords."

LORDS' POWER OF VETO.

FROM THE LORDS' VIEWPOINT.

Received December 15. 8.46 pan. London, December 15. Lord' Faber, addressing the business men of Bradford, said that if the Lord* wive not allowed to touch money wUs it would mean a single chamber, because Home Rule, education, and similar questions could bo dealt with as finance measures. It was unsound finance to ".budget" beyond the needs of the year. Capital, he added, was emigrating, perV ly because the Argentine and Unite* States investments paid better.

THE PREMD3R'S PROMISES.

" VOTE-CATGHING TRICKS."

Received Decembor 15, 8.45 p.m. London. December 15.

Sir A. Acland-Hood, speaking at Oxford, said Mr..Asquith's offers and promises to each section of the party were dishonest votc-catohing bribes.

THE HOME RULE QUESTION. IRISH LEAGUE'S ADVICE. PREMIER'S DECLARATION bAiiSFACTORY. Received December 15, 10 p.m. < London, December 16. The directors of the United IrtaQ League resolved mOBt heartily to advise the League in Britain to we the Irish vote in support of &a Libera] tad Labor parties. Mr. John Redmond, presiding, considered Mr. Asquith'a declaration regarding Home Rule satisfactory.

"NO PRACTICAL VALUE." NO LEADING- PLACE M LIBERAL PROGRAMME. Received December IS, 10 p.m. London, December Iff. ' Lord Dunraven, in a letter, says Mr. Asquith's utterance regarding Home Rule has do practical value. Home Rule had been within the four corners of the Liberal policy for 20 years, but it is assuredly not the leading item In its practical programme. The triumph of the Socialist and Radical party would prove disastrous to the material wellbeing of Ireland and the spiritual wellbeing of the Irish in Britain.

MR. ASQUITH'S PRONOUNCEMENT. A FINE INTERPRETATION. Received December 15, 11.55 pan. London, December 15. The United Irish League director's resolution interprets Mr. Asquith's statement as claiming for the Liberal Party a mandate to deal with the self-govern-men of Ireland as soon as the House of Lords' veto is cleared out of the road. The Times says this is a somewhat tfn)o interpretation {of Mr. Asijuithfc words. (Mr. Asquith's statement was at follows: "Ireland is still the one great failure of British statesmanship. Speaking on behalf of my colleagues, I now tuty the only solution is that to lie found in a system of self-government in purely Irish affairs—ii system which shall explicitly safeguard the supreme authority of the Imperial Purliament. TJie present Government has been unable to venture pn proposing this solution; but the Liberals' hand* in the sew Parliament will be perfectly free.")

NATIONALISTS' HEAL AIM-SBPA-RATION.

IRISH LOYALISTS AGAINST '; HOME RULE. Received December 15, 8.45 p.m. London, December 15. Mr. Walter Long, speaking at Pembroke dock, said a million and a niH loyalists in Twlnnd were determined to strenuously oppose Home Rule. If Britain was plunged into this controversy, ■what would become of Mr. Asqnith'i social programme? The country would be blind unless it realised that the Nationalists' aim was separation.

THE UNIONIST FREE TRADE VicW. v

London, December II i Lord George Hamilton, Lord Cromer, | and others, on behalf of the Unionist Free Trade Club, declare it is undesirable to recommend numbers bow to vote, but say members) should inform the candidate for whom floy are voting that they n(s strongly opposed to protection and Home Rule.

[ LABOR PARTY'S CONSTITUTION. London, December 14. The Northumberland miners' ballot resulted in 13,374 votes for and II.WT ' against the proposal to compel Messrs. Burt and Fenwlck, the miners' M.P.'s, . to sign the "Labor Party's constitution. The vote proves a sharp division of opinion.