BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 14, 18 January 1910, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 17. Mr Balfour, speaking at Bradford, said the Germans were not offended at any country arming for emergencies, but they were insulted by the amazing and offensive pictures drawn by Radical propagandists of wretched artisans, with all their education and technical knowledge, compelled to eat black bread and horse-flesh and every kind of diet civilised men would reject with disgust. Referring to the policy of preference, Mr Balfour remarked that the Government had turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of the Dominions. Mr Balfour said that he trusted that we. would not for long turn an unheeding ear. The whole method of framing tariffs adopted by rival nations are such as to compel the colonies, unless we alter our policy, to come to some arrangement with those with whom they are doing business. "Put yourself," he continued, "in the position of a great colony which has for years given tho Motherland preference, and is threatened by a great commercial neighbor with a penal tariff unless it throws in its commercial lot with some State outside the Empire while the Motherland refuses to conie to any arrangement." Mr Balfour added that "it cannot last, and if it cannot, in Heaven's name put an end to it at once, because the evil is growing." Mr Balfour emphasised the fact that foreign tariffs are so framed as to divert British industry from skilled employments giving' the best Avages into the production of semimanufactured raw material for foreigners' finished products. He instanced how the most skilful, highly paid, and remunerative kinds of industry of Bradford were diverted to foreign countries. "Why," he asked, "should Ave continue patient and tolerant, trusting to the freedom of rivals to manage our trade?" What was wanted was a diplomatic weapon enabling the Motherland and her Oversea Dominions to meet other nations on equal terms. LONDON, January 17.

Both Liberals and Unionists express elation over Saturday's polling. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Dundee, said that the whole tariff reform movement was ptvn"ted by the privileged classes to secure w'-at, they now possessed, and to carry warfare against the rights and interests of the common people. | Mr Lloyd-George, at his meeting at Louth, greeted the suffragettes who had hidden in the ceiling with, "I see rats on the roof, let. them squeak." Mr Asquith, speaking at Crieff, declared that the outcry about the Navy had completely failed. There was every reason for a portion of the new taxes. It was that the Government, recognising the new conditions whereunder the naval administration had now been carried on, took prompt and effective -measures to make the naval power complete and unassailable. After dwelling upon the issues of the election, Mr Asquith concluded by' urging the electorate to assert for their representatives those rights to determine taxation, direct the policy, and mould the laws of the Kingdom. (Received January 18, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. Mr Will Crooks received an ovation at Woolwich, declaring he had brought from Canada and Australasia a message of hope to the world regarding the solidarity of Labor. Sir Edward Grey, at Newcastle, declared that the Navy shall be kept up to the proper strength. Eight new ships would be built this year, and these would prove., ample to maintain the British position. An orderly Unionist demonstration of 100,000 "was held at Liverpool against Home Rule. (Received Januarv 18, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. Mr Crooks, at Woolwich, declared that the people of New South Wales complained bitterly of the 5 per cent, tariff, under which the price of commodities had been raised 15 per cent. He. added, "All colonials repudiate with scorn and derision any suggestion to give them preference." CORRECTED RETURNS. (Received Januarv 18. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. Stalybridge.—Wood, 3736. South Salford.'—Belloc, Liberal, 3952-, Barlow, Unionist, 3636. RE-ELECTED UNOPPOSED. North Wexford.—Esmonde. Tullamore division of King's County.—Burke. " Waterford.—Redmond. South Roscommon. —Hayden. Mi d-Armagh.—Lonsda le. East Wicklow.—Muldoon. North Donegal.—O'Doherty. North Kildare.—O'Connor. South Tipperary.—Cullinan. (Received Januarv 18, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. Hon. Walter Long, at Stratford, declared Lord Lansdowne's letter means that the Unionists regarded the pensions as part of a settled policy, and intended to introduce a contributory system which would provide for the disabled, also for persons at an earlier age than 70. When the Rev. Silvester Home entered the pulpit at Whitefields Tabernacle, the congregation cheered and waved their hats, and handkerchiefs. [The Rev. Silvester Home, the well known Congregational minister, who has been returned at the general election in Great Britain as junior mem- • ber for Ipswich, describes himself as "an impenitent Radical, and advocate of modern Puritanism."]