PEERS' CAMPAIGN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 5

PEERS' CAMPAIGN.

MORE LAND TAtfES, 'LESS WAGES., TARIFF THE ALTERNATIVE. By Teleeraph-Pross Association -CopyrlKUt. I (Eeo. December 28, 11.30 p m) . London, 'Decombor 28 The Peeis (whoso addresses are being | made a featuro of the Unionist election i campaign pnoi to tho,issuo of tho wnts) | will address two-thirds of tho 105 Unionist meotmgs to bo held during tho no\t I eleven days. | jlho Marquess of Londonderry (Irish Unionist Poor), in a lottor, sajs that tho I election will bo fought on the issue of I Constitutionalsm versus Socialism. | Tho Duke of Sutherland (who was a Liberal member of tlio Houso of Commonß prior to the Homo Eulo split in 1886), in a letter to his employees and pensioners, sajs that if tho owner of land is compelled to pay increased taxation, ho cannet spend tho same as herotoforo on his estate' and on wages. Tariff reform, the Duke adds, is tho only, alternative. SOCIALIST WITHDRAWS FROM k' LIBERAL SEAT. ' 1 London, December 27. Mr. 3. F. Green, treasurer of tho Social Democratic Party, and an activo Socialist propagandist, has withdrawn his candidature for Bristol South (a Liberal seat j held by Mr.' W. H. Davies, whose majority in 1906 was 2G32).