CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13908, 6 December 1910, Page 7

CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.

ADDRESS BY .THE PRIME

MINISTER.

LONDON, December 4

Mr Asquith, in the course of a message to the electors of London, asks them to give all England a lead. He adds that the vital principle of representative government is at stake, and prays them to establish it beyond all possibility of future assault. Addressing a meeting of 5000 persons at Newcastle, the Prime Minister said that it was strange how tho Unionists had suddenly shifted ground, and changed the cut of their uniform. The Liberals stood where they stood in January last —for free trade and a free House of Commons. It was difficult to keep pace with their opponents' bewildering series of twists, gyrations, and somersaults. The Tories had discovered that it was unsafe to fight the election on tariff reform and the House of Lords, hence they were disguising the on© and side-tracking the other. The referendum was meant to prevent the Liberals, when in the majority, from carrying any great scheme of legislation without reference to the people. That was a parody and a caricature of democracy. The tariff reformers had already waited' seven years, like Jacob, and were likely to wait another seven.

A Voice: They will never get Rachel 1

Mr Asquith rejoined: Rachel will be no longer in the first flush of youth when they get her

Meanwhile, the notion that people required special protection against their chosen representatives was the most fantastic idea ever conceived.