NO ALLIANCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 687, 11 December 1909, Page 5

NO ALLIANCE.

LABOUR AND LIBERALISM KEIR HARDIE'S DISCLAIMER. INDEPENDENCE THE ONLY ROAD TO SOCIALISM. >■ ■ (By Telejraph-Preii Aaioolatlon-OopjrllttU (Rec. December 10, 10.20 p.m.) i ■ London, December 10. Mr. Koir Hardie, Labour member for Mcrthyr'Tydvil, has delivered an outspoken spocoh on tlio relations <of the Liberal and Labour parties in : connection with tho general election. "So muoh," ho said, "has been heard of an alliance'between .the Liberals and tho Labour party that it is necessary to emphasise tho fact that, whatever tho consequences, an agreement or an alliance is impossible. The Labour party's object is to unite the working,class so as to.croato. a power that will ono day bring about .Socialism. "We can only achievo that by maintaining our independence unsullied. Tho object of Liberalism and Toryism is to keep : labour divided, and landlordism and capitalism supreme." ANOTHER LABOUR VIEW. London, December 9. Mr. Will Thorne,.Labour M.P. for South West Ham, declares that the Labour party will do its utmost to ensure tho Government's roturn.

. 'NOT SOCIALISM, BUT EQUITY. ;. MR LLOYD-GEORGE DEFENDS BUDGET. ■ '■'. (Rec. December 10, 10.20 p.m.).':■) .':■ ; London, December, 10.;' The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. LloydGeorge,'delivered a'Budget speech to 8000. of his constituents'at North: Wales. Ho denied that the Budget was Socialistic; it was:merely justice and equality of treatment for:all; • ':-',•. ;'V In justifying the increased* death duties and the super-tax of 6d.:in the; £ on all incomes abovp iSOOO a year, said that beyond a certain; point, most .of the wealth of Britain was to!'a great extent; the' result of luok.Y, Referring to the;tax on'.the increment value;of land, he said that the country need of. money. .The Government; looking to someone to pay, did riot' want to. tax food or. industry, or enterprise, and therefore decided to tax the man who got something which ho! nover ;carned and never produced, and which by.no law of justico or fairness ought.over to have belonged to him! '.'•.-.••:' '/";'";.'''•■'.•"■■.:•.'■•'.; : ';'\ The Liberals,-added the Chancellor;of the' Exchoqiior,. lind 'shown unutterable paticned with the Lords for. years—a patienco 'never; degenerating into pusillanimity."....;... ;,'

LANCASHIRE THE BAROMETER. WILL THE LIBERAL WAVE OF 1006 BE REPEATED? London, December 9. Mr. Reginald M'Konna, First Lord of tho Admiralty, in a speech at Famworth, Lancashire, said that in hie opinion Lancashire was tho pivot of the political situation. If Lancashire sent back the same stalwart' band of Liberals the victory of the people was won. Lancashire, he added, had a reputation of thinking to-day what England would think to-morrow. [In Lancashire at , tho 190G elections the Liberals increased their representation from 11 to'■'. 13 out of a total' of 58 soats;. The Unionists are now straining every nerve to rovcrse that lcsult.] PEOPLE FIRST, PARTY SECOND. A LIBERAL MINISTER'S ANTI-LORDS ARDOUR.

London, December 9, Mr. C. F. G. Masterman (Parliamentary Undor-Secretaiy to tho Homo Office, and a Radical High Churchman), speaking at Harlesdcn, Middlesex, said ho uould support any candidate—u holhei Liberal, Labour, or Nationalist—provided ho was with tho people against tho Lords. AGAINST PEERS, NONCONFORMITYAND THE IRISH PARTY. , LAST OBSTACLE TO HOME RULE, i London, December'o. Mr. J. B. Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist party, declares that not for 150 years has such an opportunity been offered Ireland. He emphasises the statement made by Lord Rosobory and Lord Lansdoune that the Peers' veto is tho only remaining obstacle to Homo Rule. Tho Rev. Dr. Clifford, the well-known Nonconformist divme, has issued a manifesto appealing to passivo resistors to support tho abolition of the House of Lords' veto. REFORM OF THE SECOND CHAMBER. LORD R. CECIL'S VIEW. (Roc December 10, 10 20 p.m.) London, December; 10. Lord Robert Cecil (Unionist Free-Foodci), speaking at Blackburn, suggested the reform of the House of Lords by. (1) A roduotion in the present number of hereditary Peers and Bishops. (2) The creation of a hundred life Peers, representing labour, capital, science, and ait. (8) The appointment of representatives of other lehgious bodies to sit with the Bishops (4) The appointment of a number of Pceis by tho Priuio Minister to roprosent tho pervading; political opinion.

A UNIONIST MANIFESTO COMING, v NAVY LEAGUE. London, December 9. Mr A. J. Balfour, Leader of tho Opposition, will bhortly issue a manifesto. Many newspapers emphasise tho absenco of popular excitement in Great Eutain rcgaid ing tho'Lords' action in suspending tho Budgot. At piesent there is no actiuly outside tho usual political machincrj. Thi} Na\y League is impressing all candidates with tho need for a two-Power standard. TEERS AT THE HUSTINGS. London, December : 9. The Peers are addressing election meetings Lords Camperdown nud ICeste\eil epoko for tho Lords, nnd Lords Sheffield (foinierly Lord Stanley of Alderloy) and Ly\eden for the Go\crnment. [The death in April last of Lord Shellield ot cricketing fame, who was a Conscnutne, and who loft no direct lieu, saw the Barony pasi to Lord Stanley of Alderlej, who became Loid Stanley in 190.1, and who prior to that wos a Liberal member of the House of Commons Ho was for years tho leadei of tho Progicssive party in tho old London School Board, and, attending to nn opponent "was no mean conhoversialvst either, though a somewhat hitler one at times" His oldest son nnd heii, the Hon Arthur Lyulph Stanley, is at prosont'Liberal member of the Houso of Commons for Eddlsbmy di\ision of Cheshiro, and a member of tho London County Council.] SUFFRAGETTES AGAINST LIBERALS. London, December 9. Lord Lytton, presiding at A meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union, strongly denounced militant tactics. , The Untou has issued a stirring manifesto against tho Government candidates.