ON THE EVE OF THE FIGHT.
MINISTERS ON THE REFERENDUM. LONDON, December 2. Sir E. Grey, speaking at Portsmouth, eaid that Mr BalfoUr's declaration was the counsel of desperate men. It was much'like the jettisoning of tariff reform. Home Rule for Ireland not a subject for a referendum of the whole of the United Kingdom. If.they were going to sabmit a constitutional question to the country, let it be tho question of general devolution. Lord Morley, speaking at Darwen, recalled that Lord Rosebory and himself were the only surviving members of the 1880 Cabinet. Lord Rosebory never cried out against American dollars then. The Conservatives were watering down, not abandoning, the hereditary principle. The proposal was . fantastic and ill-considered. The Teferendum would destroy the Parliamentary system.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13907, 5 December 1910, Page 7
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