BRITISH POLITICS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9691, 15 January 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN,

BLACK BREAD AND HORSE FLESH. RADICAL ELECTION WEAPONS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received January 14. 8.15 a.m. LONDON, January 13. Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a spe-ch at Wolverhampton, declared that the Tories were trying to prove that black bread and horseflesh were very wholesome. Personally, be was not afraid of the German navy and German trade competition, but he was afraid of German sausages. Referring to a hereditary Second Chamber, the Chancellor said peers require no certificate to prove them sound of body and mind, but only a certificate of birth to prove that they were the first of the litter. "You would not choose a spaniel on this principle, by which five hundred peers are chesen to override the choice of forty-five millions of people," said the speaker. In connection with the election campaign, wurking men ara frequently warned of the prospects of tbeir eating black|bread and horse sausages in the event of tariff reform being carried. Ii is now shown that the King has black bread in every palace an 1 in every Royal yacht. Radical papers are publishing a price l ; «t of horseflesh in Germany.