MR ASQUITH ON THE LIBERAL RECORD.
(Received December 6th, 10 p.m.) LONDON, December 6.
Mr Asquith, speaking at Accrington, described the House of Lords' obstruction after the election of 1906 as the greatest electoral revolution. He said Britain had been asked whether the unexampled majority of the Liberals were sent to the Commons to kick their heels and spend weeks and months elaborating legislation in order to have their measures murdered and mutilated by the Lords. Their tour years of power, however, had not been barren. The greatest achievement of all, which ho would rather have inscribed on the Government's record than anything else, was tho granting of freo and full responsible government to South Africa. Had this gone to the Lords, South Africa would never have got this priceless boon. Let them not be deluded by fancy schemes, launched at tho fiftieth minute of the eleventh hour.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13909, 7 December 1910, Page 9
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