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BRITISH POLITICS.

SPEECH 15V PRIME MINISTER. QUESTION OF HOME HULK. (Received This Morning 12.45 o'clock.; LONDON, October 6. in a speech delivered at Ladybank, the Itisrlit Hrf" H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, said that the Lords' rejection of the Budget was a colossal tactical error. The I'lster campaign was equally so. He had, he said, never understood the importance of Ulster's opposition, hut the apprehensions -were ill-founded. The safeguards were adequate and ample. It was not a question of demanding a separate Parliament for Ulster, of a part of Ulster. The Government was not j,oing to bow to a threat which would bo a negation of the root and .principle of democratic government. T(he 'furies would be unable to confine their doctrine to the present case of reckless rhodomontade. Blenheim had furnished a complete grammar of anarchy. The new dictum would bo invoked whenever the spirit of lawlessness desired to stop the ordered machinery of int. If the demands of four-fifths of the Irish men were- not granted, tliey might take the law infca their own hands. Tlio land reform policy would, ilie Premier said, he annotinced nfter, ' and not before Cabinet liad consider-'

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 5

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BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 5

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