MR PRICE IN ENGLAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 31 March 1908, Page 5

MR PRICE IN ENGLAND.

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AN ELECTED SECOND CHAMBER. WARNING TO DEMOCRATS. Received March 30, 10.25 p.m. LONDON, March 30. Mr T. Price, the South Australian Premier, speaking at Whitefield's Tabernacle, warned the Democrats against an elected second chamber which might dominate the House of Commons. He declared that the Labour Party in South Australia never resorted to levelling down. He advised England to pay great attention to the colonies. Mr T. Price will represent South Australia at the Franco-British Exhibition. Mr Price hopes to arouse interest in England regarding South Australia in the manner, though perhaps not in the style, adopted by Mr Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria, at the time of the Imperial Conference. The two men, though widely different in many ways, have had somewhat similar careers. Mr Bent was a greengrocer before he took to politics, and Mr Price rose to the Premiership from the rank of navvy. He was employed as a workman on the building of the Parliament House where he know sits. Mr Price is a man of the people, a Welshman, and an orator. Quaint in his speech, with more candour than culture, but animated with rugged fervour, he can sway audiences to a remarkable degree. Early in his political career, when there was a known majority of one against a Factories Bill which Mr Price desired to see carried into law, he asked permission of the Minister to speak, but the Whip, knowing the seriousness of the position, sought to dissuade him. "I will get that vote," said Mr Price. He started late one night, and in a few minutes the House was electrified.. In dramatic fashion he produced garments made in sweating dens, and told tales of miserable lives and starvation wages. When he sat down the division was taken. An old opponent crossed the floor, and the Bill was passed. The Premier was born in Denbighshire in 1852, but grew up in Liverpool. Education he obtained at a penny school and at a night school connected with the Presbyterian Church in Shaw street, Liverpool.