MANCHESTER FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 7

MANCHESTER FIGHT.

THE IRISH VOTE. HOME RULE, MOT DEVOLUTION. ' EDUCATION ISSTJE. BY TELEGRAPH—MESS ASSOCIATION—COrYRIGHt • London, April 22. Tlio declaration by Mr. Churchill (President of the Board of Trade), ou the authority of the Prime Minister, that if Parliament, woro dissolved, the Liberal party ./would claim a free hand to deal with Irish self-government, lyithout being restricted to mere measures of devolution, is much discussal. .. " The Catholic priests of Manchester resent tho manifesto of the Standing Committee of the Irish League (which has recommended tho Nationalists to vofcq for Mr. Churchill on the ground that tho latter had declared, on Mr. Asquith's authority, that, Homo Rule, in tho sense of Mr. Redmond's resolution, will be submitted to the electors by tho Government at tho nest general election).' Tho Bishop of Salforcl (Right Rev. L. C. Casartelli) appeals to Catholics to vote against Mr. Churchill, on'tho ground of the Government's education policy. "The Tijri'es" estimates that only two hundred'and'fifty Irish electors in North-West Manchester'will vote for Mr. Churchill. Sir A. Acland Hood, who was Secretary to tho Treasury ,in the Balfour Ministry, spealo ing at Wellington, Somerset, declared' that Mr. Winston Churchill was not entitled under tho Constitution to pledge tho Cabinet, unless it collectively adopted a given policy on behalf of the whole party. THE FISCAL PROBLEM. i UNIONISTS AS TAXERS OF FOOD. • (Rec. April 23, 11.36 p.m.) London, April' 23. In a speech at Manchester, the Chancellor of the' Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, referred to tho letter written by, Mr. Balfour (Loader of tho Opposition) to tho Unionist .candidate, Mr., Joynson-Hicks, in the course of. which Mr.' Balfour -wrote:' "My hopes for the .complete unity of the Unionists is based upon the growing conviction that they .will-all_ ultimately seo that,tho fiscal.system has broken down at every- standpoint, including . Sir Robert Peel's and Mr. Gladstone's." ■ . ' • Tho Chancellor declared that Mr. Balfour's letter pointed significantly to the fact that tho Tories are irrevocably committed to a tax on tho food-of. the people. - IRISH CONTROL, WITH IMPERIAL PARAMOUNTRY. It is interesting, to recall that Mr. John Redmond's resolution, according to the cable- 1 gram of March 31, declared that "the only solution" is to give the Irish Legislature control'of all purely Irish affairs, such Legislature to be subject, to "the supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament." The latter pi oviso was inserted, after' Mr.. Asquith had . declared that "he was unable to vote, for the motion because it contained no explicit lecbgnition of tho, continued paramount supremacy of the. Imperial Parliament." In tho si'ine speech Mr. Asquith said ho "strongly favoured self-government in Ireland- with regard to purely .'.local affairs." ; The cablegram did. not state whether. Mr. Balfour, .voted for the resolution after theproviso ■ was added,' but probably he did, as the resolution was carried by 315 votes to 157.