LIBERALS' POLICY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 5

LIBERALS' POLICY.

*< : m LORDS';aiP'OVERFLOWIN(r; : J ■:■ .■.■., PBAGE' ! PROPOSALS 'AND RUSSIA. ; : l|i TELEGEAPII—PRESS ! ASSOOIATWN—COrIEIGHT.

4,,;^'(Reo. l :Oct.-:23 ) ',10.37;P;.m.),; :.,;;,..- • .;':■ : ;■.■'',;;, '■.'■■'• "London, October 23. ; ; ij'Thei;l'rimp •■ Minister,,;: Sir; ,H., CampbellBannormani;'spqaking ,'at. •.Dunfermline, Scotland, J oxpressed himself as optimistic ..as to the' resulta of,,thp generous, bsperiment of Eivin^'freo'injstitution'sip'tho'Transvaal and the'l''Orange ,River Colohy.'.\ .',''. ; . .. ". ''Britain's' 'whole' "energies' ; at ' Tlio Ha'guo Peace Conference'were,' he , said, on the side cf peace, amity; rand arbitration. Ho justified; her 'disclaiming the' idea' of hostility or aggression, towards any of her neighbours. Tho.,f6rmationi of an understanding, which embodied' the''afrangemont- 'with' Russia had been..part of the , ./.'armed policy"' for the ; 'past 'fift!een ; :'^years,''and could only eonduoerto'peace :'and good ■,feeling,and the Saving 'of icpst'all-round. ]-:'!:■;;.!■;: : v--- ,;\ i The described! tho TJnionist idea >of itho - Houße of Lords, ini order'to/thwart;and■:overbear .the : House of ■iOpmmohs^.'as-.truly :.Gilbortian.<i.: vf'The liiberals,'! he said; -fi'are■accused>of, picking e : rquarrel;with'tho.Lords in order;;to fill , up the 1 o'iip,. but' the cup is full 'to. overflowing. The i'Liberals 'nieani to' put the.-relations of the'two:Houses oni.a business-like , andstates-Ihan-iike'footing. , Then,Mwhen the rights of thelCpinmoris v aro' ; safeguarded, thby :are /willing'■.'Jα-, consider 'plans for'tho reform of tho ;.';''■•'^ The'policy of filiinß up the cup is ge'nt the with Bills, .-with the, knowledgo that Vthe.-.-measures' will ;;be,.,rejected, and for the purpose, ,'of bringing the Upper Chamber iS'conflict'with; the popular , will. '■ ; - ''■'■- ■