BRITISH POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 273, 24 December 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

WRECKERS OF THE CONSTITUTION. "THE WILY WINSTON AND WINDI- - WELSH MAN." LORD TENNYSON'S VIEWS. By Cable,—Press Association—Copyright Received December 23, 9.55 p.m. London, December tet. Lord Tennyson, speaking at Ryde, sail Britain was passing through the gravest crisis since the Napoleonic wars, i'lic i Radicals wore tampering with and trying , to wreck the Constitution by abolishing the veto of the Lords, which was the only bar to bad and mad legislation. When in Australia he was a free-trader; he came back a believer in tariff reform, coupled with preferential duties, because lie ha"d a clearer view of the "iceds of the Empire. The Australians had learned the lesson that it was folly to conllscate land by high taxation, and were now settling working men on land bought by valuation and arbitration. This was, fairer than the method proposed by the Radical and Socialist Budget. The motto of the prese it 1 Government seemed to be " war between the classes," of extravagance anad re , volutions headed by the wily Winston and the windy-headed Welshman."

THE LORDS' VETO. London, December 22. Mr. Lloyd-George, Cnancclior of tlu Exchequer, speaking at Cardiff, declared "the first thing is to settle the Lords' veto, and all other things will be added unto you." OPPOSITION TO VICTOR GRAYSON. London, December 22. Mr. Herbert Samuel, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is addressing a meeting "at Colne Valley, in oppositiin to Mr. A. V. Grayson, a Socialist member.