BRITISH POLITICS.
STRONG LANGUAGE BY UNIONISTS. MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S PROGRAMME. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Capyright, Received April 18, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, April 17. Jn a speech at Liverpool, Mr Smith, Unionist member for the Walton division, Liverpool, described Mr Asquith as an underling of Patrick Ford's underling (Mr Redmond). j Mr A. Bonar Law, Unionist member for Dulwich, speaking at Birmingham, said Mr Asquith was an obedient slave who had licked the hand which had scourged him. FREETRADE FIGHTING FUND. Received April 18, 10 a.m. , LONDON, April 17. The Home Secretary, Mr Winston Churchill, is arranging 2,500 nonparty Freetrade lectures for the coming' year. The speakers will include Sir John Gorst, Lords Avenury, and Brassey, Mr Harold Cox (ex-M.P.), and Dr. Macnamarn. He is also arranging for conferences of professional and commercial men. Trades unions and agricultural societies are co-operating in raising a Freetrade fighting fund of £12,000. BUDGET AND VETO PROPOSALS. SOME STRONG ASSERTIONS. Received April 18, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, April 18. Writing to the Blackburn Reform Club, Mr Winston Churchill .says: "Our forces arc not as strong as we hoped, but we shall inarch squarely forward and carry the Budget and veb proposals unweakened modified to the steps of the Throne."
Mr Keir'Hardie. at Biackburn, declared that if the movement against the Lords meets with obscurity and resistance from the Lords or Throne the agitation will assume forms wherein democracy will sweep aside all restraints and claim full enfranchisement at one swoop. He also added that he refused to be entangled with the Liberai Party.
LORD-IN-WAITINGj RESIGNS. A PROTEST. Received April 18, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, April 18. Lord O'Hagen has resigned as Lord-in-Waiting, as a protest against Mr Asquith dragging the Crown into party controversies.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10022, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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