HOME RULE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 274, 10 April 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE.

SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 7. Mr. Balfour, in a speech to 3000 youthful members of the Junior Imperial League at Lambeth Baths, said that he did not blame,the Nationalists for having consented to swallow the Budget and other unpalatable doses, provided the Government handed the country over to a single chamber which would carry Home Rule. Such a plot was complicated, and too impudent for the ordinary elector to grasp the question of what was being done to replace Gladstonian Home Rule. At the first blush the Government's suggestion to give the United Kingdom a constitution not differing fundamentally from the great colonial democracies might appeal to Britishers with Imperial instincts, but the overseas Dominions had moved from separation to centralisation, while the Government was favoring the precise converse of that which had made Australia, a great South Africa, a great Canada, and a great Germany. A NATIONALIST PROTEST. Received 9, 5 p.m. London, April 8. Mr. Moreton Pre wen, Independent Nationalist member for North-East Cork, is convinced that the Veto Bill is a repellent method of winning English opinion for Home Rule, and therefore resigns his seat.