LIBERALS AND FACTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 692, 17 December 1909, Page 7

LIBERALS AND FACTS.

♦ MB. LLOYD-GEORGE AND THE HARQUIS OF BUTE. A STATEMENT CHALLENGED. (By Tclejrapll.-Preßi Assooiatian.-CoDyright.) London, December 15. <Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. D. Lloyd-Georgo, Bpeaking at Carnarvon, stated .that a small tailor's shop next door to Cardiff Castle had been assessed at .£917 annually, while the Marquis of Bute's property (Cardiff Castle) was assessed at .£924. The tailor's solicitors proved that the assess-' 'mont was only .£4O. Mr. Lloyd-George was asked to apologise. : -Mr.: Lloyd-George:Replied that, the premises heimeant >ero;'nqt,'".Btrictly:. Bpeaking, "next door. He; ; mention3 ; .a name .which*.;is that, of one'..of;.the- largest' clothing, .emporiums in Wales. .: He" admits that. the.. Marquis of ■ Bute contributes V .£33,(H)0 annually ! to ; : the 'Cardiff • rates. '■■■. :;.§,■;■\^,/' : : -..-'-. :

LORDS AND LIQUOR. LIBERAL NEWSPAPER APOLOGISES. London, December 15. The "Westminster Gazette" has apologised for a statement that the Marquis of Lansdowne (Leader of the Opposition in the Lords) received a deputation from tho licensing trado prior to moving his amendment regarding tho Budget.

ALLEGED INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS. LIBERAL WHIP'S CHARGE. UNIONISTS DEMAND" WITHDHAWAL. London, December 15, Unionists at Saffron Waldcii (the seat of Mr. J. A. Pease, Chief Liberal Whip) summon Mr. Pease to substantiate or withdraw his allegations regarding intimidation of voters.

■■~f%'.■■Pease^jfas..reported:• an sayiflg that .threats : had been , made in the 'constituency tt Pd, in\-some-..cases,;' he had been- informed &™K notlce - wo ? lcl ,' , b ? : ' S'ven' to certain tenant, farmers, and. labourers ..that if thev ■fh=? d, K°f ,- m wo , u ' d ' b8 ejected, from r tneir holdings -..and•■■employment; Any aeent such* pressure to bear was liable to penalties, under the Corrupt Practices Act.] MR.:URE'S;STATEMENTS CHALLENGED. '. Tlie". Unionist press has. been actively: longing various statements,;made by Liberal Ministers.'.ln d leading article on the:Balfour-"■V,rS'.PMWß»-at-armß (concerning the Unionists* ability to pay old age pensions) the'"Daily ■Mail','incidentally remarks:-. ■■-,•■■■..,•• 'As ;a. : controversialist Hr.lJre (Lord Ad. vocate;. ;for : . .Scotland) ■ has' of i Into V been much : mor o , energetic than truthful or judicious jhe, country has. not-yet forgotten his unfortunate passage-charms with. Lord Dalkeith "rle fEwl trn ° asg S\ °? $Btanber ; 17 that' the Duko of Buccleuch had demanded and obtained from thociizens of London .£150,000 for vacant land-abutting on ihe. banks, of the Thames which,was required for. the Thames mont .Every statement was. wrong. It was pointed, out by Lord Dalkeith that the l£id did not belong to the Duke of Buccleuch, but to-- the;, Crown. The payment made -to ...the duke ~as. .tenant, for the loss/of. his waterfrontage.was only ,£sooo,'so that: Mr. Ure woi merely out .But, having pretended that.the duke was a,rapacious landlord "who ■took advantage, of a great public improvement to oxtort.a liugo.sum of.money from tho com mumty/ Mr Vre had not the gra« £ offer t M 1 1'; nn . d ;, I ll ° ne := f: . P utl 'o ■"apology.'.. Lord Dal. still, waiting for him his\ }^\ k }> ai ~?ao«gh that obscure members of a party, which ■■ : makes high, professions -:■ oi justictf and righteousness m its dealings should Ctoop to wholesale falsehood, ; but it is simply deplorable to lind a member of tie Ministry adopting these tactics of decoit and crowning ; the pld-agp pens-ion lie by pretending that v the Unionists, have no alternative: means' of raising .money when-they oppose the Budget Ur. Lite has surely hoard of Tariff Refoxm."'