NATIVE RIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 579, 6 August 1909, Page 5

NATIVE RIGHTS.

LORDS PASS UNION BILL UNAMENDED, (By Telegraph.— PreSß Assoolation.-OdDyi'lEht.l Lortdort, August 4^ The House of Lords passed the 3oTitU African Union Bill through committee uh , - amended) rejecting several amendments proposed by Lord Courtney, embodying native claims. ' THE DISSENTIENT VOICE. A "Pall Mall Gazette" view of Lord Court* ney (formerly Mr, Leonard Courtney), who has dareil to try and put a few shot'holes in the South African Union Bill: "SutmissiTeness is not ifi Lord Courtney's dictionary. Cornishman and philosophical Radical is-a fearsome blefld, resulting, naturally, in turbulent honesty and a. fanatic devotion to dry light. Lord CfiaHney has always felt it his duty to say what ho thought, and to think terrifically. He has (h« qualities of a powerful and independent intellect—and their defects. .For- one thing, he hnß always paid the world the unmerited compliment of assuming it to be peopled with Leonard Courtiieys, so that pfopoftioiial representation and universal arbitration are at leafet ns tiasy to achioVe aS tho words are to say. jpdf another, he has lost all balance in liis desire to h& well-balanced, and the moirieftt anybiio agrees with him, he begins to find arguments oil the other side. Hence the caiii!idhes_s of his friendship to whatever party lie Wight nominally support, and the anti-patrioliii bias, fthidii made his influence largely responsible for Ifajuba, left him in a tiny.minority over Fashoda, and later on brought him out as a Shocking pro-Beer. At all times, however; Lord Coiirtncj''.s absolute sincerity afld high-niiudednfisS have bean unquestioned." After a reference to Lord Courtney's "oppressive virtues," tho writer concedes; "Lori! Court' ney's knowledge is encyclopaedic. Ite lias iiiixSc! proportional, fe'iifesciitatidfi With old China, political economy with lawn tennis, woman's suffrage With aft."