THE POLITICAL FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 7

THE POLITICAL FIGHT.

IS THERE A TRUCE? A PLEA BY LORD ROSfcBERY. THE PEACEMAKER, By TeleeraDh—Press Association— Cocyriehl (Rec, May 26, 10.5 p.m.) London, May 26. Lord Roscbery, in a speech at Edinburgh, said that tho meeting of tho Kaiser a.nd King George at Westminster Hall has struck tho imagination of tho world. Was it too much to hope that King Edward tho Peacemaker had bequeathed a groat legacy of peace? His Majesty had loft Parliament in a condition of acute division. Might wo not hope that by the solemn communion of parties in Westminster Hnll, ho had left peaco even, in tho politics of the United Kingdom? LORDS' REFORM. (.Rec. May 27, 0.35 a.m.) London, May 26. The "Liverpool Post" says that Lord Rosebery will postpone his resolutions dealing with reform of the House of Lords till November 19. AGAINST A TRUCE. MR. KEIR HARDIE'S PROTEST. WHITEHAVEN VICTIMS. (Rec. May 26, 10.5 p.m.) v London, May 26. Mr. Keir Hardie, a leading Labour M.P., speaking at Pontypridd, said he hoped that the suggestion to indefinitely postpono the resumption of the fight in which Parliament was engaged would find neither sympathy nor support on either side. Tho battle must bo fought through at tho earliest possible moment. He entered a protest against, the glorification of militarism displayed in the Royal funeral to tho exclusion of the civil side of government. Ho objected to tho enthronement of the fightingnian. The military clement was always destructive of civil liberty. During tho last fortnight ho had been sick at heart at the mawkish sentimentality shown. He could sympathise with tho widow and family of a dead King, but his sympathy was equally keen with the widows and families of the, victims of the Wlitehaven colliery disaster. In his opinion, as a miner, walls should havo been built to extinguish the firo in tho colliery while the- victims were still alive. He was sick, therefore, at tho mummery shown at the death of ono man, while those others were uncarod for. THE POLITICAL POSITION SUMMED UP. ACCESSION OATH. POTENCY OF NATIONALIST BOOT. (K«c. May 26, 10.5 p.m.) London, May 26. Tho Dublin Corporation has recommended the moderation of tho Accession Oath by the removal of words offensivo to Roman Catholics^ Alderman Kelly: "The Nationalist members of the Commons have only to say to the Liberals: 'Unless tho terms of the Oath are altered, we will kick you out'."