THE BUDGET BATTLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9619, 12 October 1909, Page 5

THE BUDGET BATTLE.

"CREAKING OLD TORY SHIP," MR LLOYD GEORGE'S WARNING. 1 LORDS MAY DECREE A REVOLUTION. United Press Association —By Electric 'l'elcgwph Copyright. Received October 11, 8.20 a.m LONDON, October 10. Mr Lloyd-George, in his Newcastle speech, said that the more irresponsible featherheads among the Lords want to throw the Budget out. "Poor Lord Lansdovvne," said the Chancellor, "who was in a creaking old ship with a mutinous old crew, has got to sail through the narrows i with one eye oti the weather-glass and the other on the forecastle . The real sailing master is the chief Tory Whip, who is now tryiner to decide whether it is safe to shoot the albatross, The Budget's fate depends on the report from the country." Concluding, Mr Lloyd George said: "The Lords may decree a revolution, but the people will direct it. If the Constitution is torn to pieces issues will be raised which the Lords little dreamed of. Who made ten thousand people owners of the soil? ft ho is responsible for scheme whereby one engages in grinding labour eking out a precar ious existence, while another is rolling in unearned luxury? These are the questions which will be ask ed, and the answer will be charged with peril for the order of things which the Peers represent." The speech contained an attack similar to that made hy the speaker at Limehouse up">n the landlords. Mr Lloyd-George instanced the largeness of the profits upon land sold to railways and municipalities, and the large amount drawn by the landed aristocracy as coal royalites. Addressing an overflow meeting numbering sixty thousand, the Chancellor said he was glad the people were with the Government in the fight. He had feared at the start that they might not realise in time how deeply, their interests were hound up in the Budget.