CUTTING THE PAINTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9594, 14 September 1909, Page 5

CUTTING THE PAINTER

Received September 13, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, September 12.

Lord Rosebery resigned the presidency of the Liberal League, of which Mr Asquith, Sir Edward Grey, and Mr Haldane are among the vice-presidents, before his Glasgow speech.

"A SOFT NOSED TORPEDO."

CRITICISMS OF LORD ROSEBERKS' SPEECH.

Received September 13, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, September 13. Mr Lloyd-George, interviewed, de • scribed Lord Rosebery's speech as a soft-nosed torpedo. Colonel Seely (Liberal M.P.) speaking at Liverpool, said Lord Kosebery's speech was inconclusive If the Lo*ds used their power to destroy the Budget the people would use theirs to destroy the Peers. Mr F. D. Ackland (Liberal M.P.,) speaking at Peninstone. said that there were a number or Peers known in London as the "wild men from the woods," who regarded land taxes from so narrow and selfish standpoints as not to be willing in the event of Mr Balfour and his people thinkinng it best to let the Finance Bill pass, to obey. Dr T. J. Macnamara. (Liberal M.P.,) in a speech at Grimsby, said Lord Rosebery's speech was reminiscent of the jackdaw of Rbeims. Lord Kosebery and the Unionists were at one regarding the Badget, but while the Unionists proposed the alternative of Tariff Reform. Lord Rosebery had no practical alternative. Any tampering with tbe Budget by the Lords woulJ lead to a declaration by the people against the Peers. Mr A. Ure, 'Liberal M.P ,) in the course of a speech at Coventry, said that as an attack on the Budget Lord Rosebery's speech was hopleessly ineffective, futile, harmles and vain. It was the greatest help the Budget had yet received. There were only two ways of the attacking the Budget. The critic could say the expenditure was wrong or "this is not the right way to raise the money; I will show you a better." Since Lrod Rosebery had not assumed either position it was clear he, like the firm of Rothchild, the great bankers, knows that this Budget is the only just and fair method of securing the necessary millions. Mr J. W. Gulland, 'Liberal M.P.,) speaking at Edinburgh,- said that the enthusiasm everwyhere shown for the Budget would be increased by the speech from the raven croaking on his withered branch. If the Lords rejected the Budget they would raise an issue which might cost them their coronets.

In a speech at Market Lbington, the Hon. Walter Long, (Conservative M.P..) said that Lord Rosebery's indictment of the Budget was so powerful and trenchant that It left nothing to be said by anbyody in furtherance of the campaign against the Finance Bill. Business men in Newcastle are inviting Lord Rosebery to address them on the Budget.