CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13910, 8 December 1910, Page 7

CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.

MR BALFOUR ON THE REFERENDUM.

, Earl S*iertcer states that he believes diat before long the country will say to the House of Lords, "Away with you, if you do not abide by our wishes." He is as staunch a Home Ruler as «ver, and says that he wants to know much more about the referendum before adhering to it. ; Mr Balfour, speaking at Sheffield, - alluding to the referendum, which f ko proposed should be called \ * . "oil of the people, and . *hich would not be taken on party , foes, said that Unionists were challenged whether they would accept a poll on tariff reform. Their opponents expected a refusal, but when, unfortunately for Mr Asquith, the Unionists -Proved consistent, they turned round and described it as a party subterfuge. *, to different were the feelings of a man -*hen he said "Come on," and his feeltogs when his antagonist responded. ' Lord Lansdowne, speaking at C—diff, declared that their opponents I forgot to say that they had found I * place for the referendum in the Con- | •Station given to South Africa. feSir Edward Grey, speaking at ijpfooltr, said that to ask the Governlv Jj**nt to submit the question of Home rotate for Ireland to a referendum, from the scheme of devolution jjjNl redistribution, whereof it formed mpart, -was equivalent to asking the

CABLE NEWS.

Protectionists to submit the food taxes 0 f n tariff reform Budget to a referendum. With the referendum there would be no need for the House of Lords or the House of Commons. A staff of drafting clerks was all that would he necessary. I n v j ew of the Socialist attacks on the Government, the talk of a Liberal-Socialist alliance was moonshine.