SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 974, 18 February 1910, Page 5

SIR ROBERT STOUT.

AN INTERVIEW.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph

Copyright. Received February 17, 10 a.m. PERTH, February 17

Sir Kobert Stout, in an interview, I said he considered British people do not realise the important courftitutional question involved in the recent elections. There might be grave trouble ahead of the Liberal Party if the King had not given Mr Asquith a pledge as to what he would do, i but no doubt some way would be found., * Regarding the condition of the English workers, Sir Robert paid a tribute to Mr John Burns' efforts to improve them. What England most wanted was a crusade against the drink evil, headed by national lead- I

In manufactures England still exported twice as much per capita as Germany, and four times as much as America, but slackness seemed t prevail among the people, who were given over to amusement. He compared the American press favourably with the English, and declared that "The Times" had lost its independent tone and become a party organ.