BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN. LABOUR PARTY WILL SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT. L'niWflPress fcleiiU'lti Tp'.egi'ilph Copyfight. December 10/ 1U.25 a m."" LONDON, December 9. Mr" Will* Tho.me, Labour M.P., de- ' .clareS *hat the Party will do 1 jt.i utmefst to ensure the GovernM3oi''t's return*. Mi" Ore, Lord Advocate for Scot • land', .again dec3are« that the man whovotts for Tariff Ktform votea for discontinuation of v old age pensions, inasmuch as the tariff would be inadequate. Mr J E. Redmond,- Leader of the iNationalist Party, declares that not for 150 years has such an opportunity been offered Ireland. He emphasised Lord Rosebery's and Lord Lansdowne's statement that the Peers' veto is the only remaining obstacle to Home Rule.

The Rev. Dr Clifford, the wellknown Nonconformist Divine, has issued a ' manifesto appealing to passive resisters to support the abolition of the House of Lords' veto. The Navy League is impressing all candidates with the need for a two-power standard. The Peers are addressing election meetings. Lords Camperdown and Kesteven spoke against (?for) the Lors, and Lords Sheffield andjLyveden for the Government. Received December 10, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, December 10. The Hon. D. Llovd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, addrossing 8,000 persons at Carnarvon, denied that the Budget was Socialistic; it merely meant justice and equality for all. He said thit the country was in need of money, and the Government was looking for someone to pay. They did not want to tax food, industry or tmterpriie. Therefore they decided to tax the man who got something which he never earned, never produced, or which by no law, justice, or fairness ought ever to have belonged to him. The Liberals had shown unutterable patience With the Lords for years.

LIBERALS AND LABOUR PARTY,

PROPOSED ALLIANCE. AN IMPOSSIBILITY. Received December 10, 10.20 p.m. LONDON, December 10. Mr Keir Hardie says that so much Bas been heard of the alliance of the Liberals and the Labour Party that it„was necessary to emphasise the fact that whatever the consequences an agreem2nt or alliance was impossible. The Labour Party's object is a \ united working class, so as to create a power that will one day bring Socialism. The Party can only achieve that by maintaining their independence and Toryism is to keep Labour divided and landlordism and capitalism supreme. Lord Robert Cecil, Conservative M.P. for East Marylebone, speak iiig at Blackburn, suggested the reform of the House ot Lords by a reduction in the number of hereditary Peers and Bishops, ami the creation of one hundred life Peers, representing labour, capitsil, science and art. He propospd that representalives of other religious bodies sit with the Bishops and also the appointment of| a number of Peers by the Premier tj represent the prevadmg pjlitica opinion.