VIOLENT SPEECH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10544, 29 January 1912, Page 5

VIOLENT SPEECH

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Elo trie Telegraph—Copyright.)

BY MR BONAR LAW HE TROUNCES THE GOVERNMENT. / (Received "Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, January 27. Mr Bonar Law, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, addressed a packed and enthusiastic meeting in the Albert Hall. He .said the Government could not keep going at the present pace. The result would be either the destruction of the Government or fehe ruin of the country. The Cabinet played "Faust" to Mr Redmond's ''Mephistopheles,'' and was now called upon to redeem its bond. Disestablishment -was an act of destructv iive violence. It appeared as-.if. the Unionist4Freetraders had to choose between Tariff Reform and LloydGeorgeisin. The country had had enough of the present Government.

TURN IN THE LANE. , Tlie lane had been a long one, but the turning point was visible. Failure and incompetence ware marked in every step of the wild men who control the Radical Party. They had trusted Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man, but could not trust the present Premier, who was being driven, without resistance, faster down the slope. There was never a whisper of com>petent criticism from the Government benches. Vive critics were promptly .colilared and made Peers-, Knights, or front benehmen. Walep had thirty members, eighteen of whom had been honoured, from a Peerage to a job. The Labour Party had lost its influence, because it was in the Government's pocket. On the other -side the Government had sold the constitution and found themselves in the Nationalists' pocket. This tremendous transformation, was without explanation.

A NEW LEAP. Before Christmas' Mr Winston Churchill had enough of "the Stepney •seizes and gentle shepherds," and had gone to the Admiralty, while MY Reginald -McEenna had had enough 'hi Mr Archer Lee;and Lord Charles Beresford. Both desired to begin with, a new .leaf."" lioi-d rJßaldiUie'js tnethod the- regulars was by. a reduction.Of twenty, thou*, and men. He had.'similarly reduced the auxiliaries by- thirty,' thousand':. All were armed with inferior weapons to these of other nations, while he joined in the senseless attack'on Sir Edward Grey by his own press.

MOROCCO INCIDENT. It was a fact that the Morocco incident had ended with an advantage to France, while we got all the 'illwill. We had diifted to the verge of war, because the re. c ponsible Ministers had led the foreign nations- to believe that the Government would never assert its rights by force. The Hon. D. Lloyd-George's Mansion House speech had saved us from war, but had accentuated Germany's illwill, lit would require a generation of sane statesmanship to live it down. NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.

The Radicals had increased the national expenditure to the extent of £40,000,000 annually. 'Much of this was spent upon a swanni of new officials, numbering nearly six thousand and a half, who were appointed without co repetition. Revolutionary Governments were alloys corru.pi; Go•vernn vents. Capital was leaving A\e country to an extent unknown in the (previous history of the nation. There tse<;<rived to be" to bortc-m tj>.' the direr in consols. The Government; had thitherto .been "preparing; machinery for its own destruction., which would come into operation , next session. The Premier had told them that Woman Suffrage had been a national disaster. Yet he expressed his willingness to perpetuate that disaster. He asked, "Has ever British ..s'tateMiiansihip fallen so low?"

GOViERNMENT IN DIFFICULTIES. - ■•■

In the,, revised Mriixistea'ial programme he believed the G<>vernjmeut. was already. in difficulties over tJie constructing of a Bill acceptable to IreUind, and possibly- to England. >ft W!b>t humbugs -these people are!" They £or ployed trickery and the means of artful dodgers. Their methods Hast session were a disgrace to the Gioverrnment anu a degradation of the House of Dominions. -*