PRIMROSE LEAGUE BANQUET.
• SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR. THE UNIONIST ACHIEVEMENTS. [PEES 3 ASSOCIATION.] (Received November 30, 7.22 a.m.) LONDON, 29th November. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Prime Minister, delivered a vigorous speech at a banquet organised by the Primrose League— a league founded in 1883 in memciry of the late Loid Beacoiiifield (with whom the primrose is said to- have been a favourite flower), and in support of three Conservative principles : the maintenance of religion, the estates of the realm, and the Imperial ascendency of the British Empire. The banquet' was held in the Hotel Cecil. Mr. Balfour said the future belonged to the Unionists. Contrasting the Unionist achievements with the professions of "ploughers of the sand," he stated that the latter had not found lime to construct a policy, and had never made a suggestion calculated to cement the Empire or advance social reforms, of which they had been discoursing for half a century.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1904, Page 5
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