IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 June 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

PARLIAMENT'S SUPREMACY. CIVIL WAR IMPROBABLE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 15. ■ Mr.' Walter Runciman, speaking at Bristol, said there was no sign that the Ulster Protestants ran any risk of aggression. The whole Empire was against Sir Edward Carson. The Liberals stood for the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. Civil war, if not an impoasibility> was an improbability, and if the, Liberals were frightened hy threats they j were not fitted to retain "the country's confidence. ! Mr. Churchill wrote to the same meeting'stating that far-reaching questions t affecting the land and the Lords were coming into view, and there were nigger things to he done than had been attempted. Th? Unionists were as boastful to- ' day, upon a flood of slander, as in 1000 against the Budget, but the general election woald come quite soon enough for the reactionaries and food taxers, and when it came at the proper time and upon good ground, with new issues and an old cause, there was little doubt that the Liberals woull roll them over as they'had often done before.