FEDERAL HOME RULE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 14 September 1912, Page 5

FEDERAL HOME RULE

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(United Frett Association— By Ela> irtc Telegraph —xJcpyri(/ht.)

FOR GREAT BRITAIN SCHEME OUTLINED. ■ (Received Last Ni'tht 11 o clock.) .1 ) _ J" ; "CONDON. September 13. j The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, , speaking before tho Dundee Women's' Liberal Federation, was much inter--1 rupted by Suffragists, who were ul- ' timately ejected. One tied herself to the railing of a balcony. Mr Churchill outlined a scheme for . j Federal Home Rule. There would be no difficulty with Scotland and Wales, he said, but there would be a very j real difficulty yith England. So great! was the population that the English j Parliament, whatever its functions J and limitations, would be almost as powerful as the Imperial Parliament. If there was a divergence of feeling j regarding the policv between the English and Imperii! Parliaments, or n quarrel between these tremendou.°lv powerful bodies, the State might

be torn in half, and: bring great evils upon all. "If," lie continued, "it is desirable to set up a workable Federtal system, wo must face the task ° f . dividing England into several selfGoverning areas." Lancashire, Yorkshire. fithe Midlands and London were: instances of convenient legislative r"l its. .He had no hesitation in saying thnt in the larger nnits lornl government would he a great advantage. They would afford a large sphere than is open -at present for the activity of women. He was not- the disturbed by the prospect of seeing ten or twelve separate legisltaive bod*. Ie« erected for the discharge of fnno- • tions entrusted by the Imperial Pavliamont. The creation of a Federal. System in tbo United Kingdom would he an immense task, but eich pn v ty would bo better looked after, public .life would ''become richer and admb-,. istratiott more sympathetic and Marching. The Central Parliament would, be relieved of a vast and oppressive burdenv and have movo leisure for her foreign, anck colonial policy. ■ "The bnited States,"' he said., "has. a great many Parliaments, Germuiy has separate kingdoms, principalities and. armies of women, and a strorg federa-1 tion, Canada, Smith Africa and Aus-, tralia, Tiave found the Federal -systen; the only way to reconcile the general] interests of an organised State, witlrj the special development of each Par- : Ihinent. It is only another boi:7 step onward to that closer union with the Overseas Dominions which must be achieved if Britain's greatness is to endure." He put the matter forward,; not as an indication of the povernment policy in precision. But he yaf>: bringing forward a question in which;' many political issues were moving., The settlement of the Trish quarrel I was vital and indispensible t-o the pre-; [limitiary to larger reconstruction.