THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 12, 1907. LIBERALS AND LORDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8462, 12 June 1907, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 12, 1907. LIBERALS AND LORDS.

There is no doubt that the coming political fight in the Old Country will be between the Liberals and Lords. The latter are, as a whole, opposed to the present Government, while the former are not only' fully sensible of the opposition with whicn they have to contend, but they are, also, well aware that in the hostility which they show towards the House of Lords they have the support of a large majority of the people. The time has arrived for, the House of Lords to "go." That is, practically, the ultimatum of the Liberal party, but it must not be thought that in expressing such a view the Liberals are opposed to an ' Upper House, or a bicameral system of Government. Not at all! The Liberals are simply opposed to the House of Lords as at present constituted, and the conclusive reasons which they advance are simply legion in number. But the position is past arguing~-it is a great reform most urgently needed, and the necessity for it is patent to everyone capable of taking a commonsense and fair view of the situation. The extent to which the question is "uppermost," in the way of party politics, may be gathered from some recent statements of the British Prime Minister (Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-nerman). Sir Henry, according to a cable message published a few day 3 ago, speaking at a conference of delegates, representing the National Liberal Federation, said that the successive biows struck by the Lords at the authority of the House of Commons, though directed at particular measures, were part of a general scheme, the object of which was to discredit any Liberal Government. The very existence of Liberalism as a power in the State depended upon the result of the struggle on which the Government was embarking. If self-respecting Liberalism, With the country behind it, was unable to force its policy, it had better go down in asserting its rights, rather <than linger as a shadow of Government. The time for compromising, temporising and expostulating had gone. '