POLITICAL POINTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 12

POLITICAL POINTS.

A proclamation has been Issued further proroguing the South Australian Parliament until April 12. It is not expected th*t Parliament will meet before July. We do not know that the field of politics as & career has Improved much, Look on whatever side you may, the table seems invariably one of contention and intrigue.—Country Life. Viotorian Political Labour Leagues have nominated twenty-three candidates toe the three Senate vacancies. A ballot on the preferential system, will be taken to reduce the number to the three required. The Social Questions Committee is tbe name adopted by Mr. Tom Mann for his new society, in which Mr. H. H. Champion and Miss Vida Goldstein co-opomte with him. There aro said to be 622 members already. Premier CnmpbeU-Bannernvwv's name was originally Henry Campbell. The "Bannerman" came to him with much money, tinder th« will of on undo. One of hi* brothers, Mr. J. A. Campbell, eat with the Conservatives in the last PariiaI ment, The Kidston Ministry is the twentythird Government to hold office during Queensland's fortysix years' existence as a separate State. Tho English are certainly contributing to the peace of the world When they make it dear to all fhat they will not tolerate any aggression Against Fyuiice.— Jean Jaures, in L'Humanite (Paris). South Africa is the key of the future of the Empire j a false step in tbe Transvaal, and gook-bye to a united Empire.— Sir Gilbert Parker. "England expects that ©very foreigner will pay his duty,"— Mr, Uo Maxue, at Croydoii. , I am for tho supremacy of the Imperial Parliament j everything must be subordln. ate to that, «ald Mr. Burns at Battersea. Mr. Holyoake, the well known Chartist, claims to have beon the first Labour candidate, at Tower Hamlets, in 1867. and to have had the support of John Stuart Mill. Be also ooiitasWrl Leicester in the Labour interest in i960. The Prime Minister lnforpwd a- deputation of Scottish, miners that if the general finances of the country admitted of it the repeal of the coal tax would be one of the earliest matters to' which the Government would address themselves. There are other offices in the ' Cabinet which I might have filled, but the War Office, with its difficulties and opportunities, was the oflk« of my choice.— Mr. Hftldnne, ' ..... Lpntlon Morning Pout on the National Defence movement in Australia :— "lt may yet happen that her younger and more open-minded children may set an example to the Mother Country in this respect, as they have done in other* Certainly no wefi'WisheT to the Empire will fail to recognise that the movement which has been inaugurated in Australia 'il full of great possiWHtlee r and Lord Roberts will probably find in ib a great eneouTagenfcnt to his self-sacrificing and patriotic efforts." "I should consider It a plain obligation to vote against my own brother if he were a follower of Mr. Chamberlain or Mr. Balfour," said the Bishop of Hereford. Miss Catherine Helen Spent*?, of Sydney, who ie 81 years of age. proposes to stand again far a seat in the Federal Parliament. Her Intellect is bright nnd dear, and enthusiasms fresh, says the Bulletin. Her mother, who lived to 96. and wflg nlso political, retained unimpaired ffloulMes to the end. If I may offer advice to a fellow-Social-Ist, I would say i Cling to the simple eatential ideal of Socialism, which is the abolition of private property in anything but what a man ha* earned or made.— H. Q, Wells, in the Independent Review. A most significant feature of the British elections, say the Sydney Daily Tele> graph, la undoubtedly the striking success of the Labour candidates, , , So far, however, it need only be recognised that a new era has dawned in the political history of Great Britain. There is no need to suppose that the difficulties which muy be expected to arise cannot be surmounted by the exercise of those solid qualities of judgment anil tho steadfastness and courage which have never been wanting in the rnco,' "The more one reflects on the political situation, the more one perceives the statesmanship of Morgan in getting out of it," says the Brisbane Worker on Queensland politic/), Mr. Chamberlain has sent tta following letter, which may be regarded ns an epitome,of his policy, to the Daily Express i —"My policy is defensive, but not protective. My aim is to restore equality of conditions for our own work people. Treat foreigners ns they treat us. Treat our friends a' little better than our opponents," Mr. Lloyd-George, the new President of the Board of Trade, announced his Inten* tlon to bring In a Bill which' will ensure the safety of nil sailors trading with England. Tho proposed Bill would, he said, Imt a stop to overloading by putting oreJgn ships under the mii/u regulations as British ships. The following resolution wns unanimous, ly adopted by a meeting hold under the auspices of the Kingston branch of the British Independent Labour party:— "This meeting of men and women of Gins gow demands' that the Parliamentary franchise shall be immediately extended to women on the same terms as it is, or may be, 'granted to. men." Mr. Itudynrd Kipling, In 'ft letter to Captain Tryon, ono of the Conservative candidate* for Brighton, wrote i—"heedless to say, I am an ardent and convinced believer in inter-colonial preference, and in Just as much or ju*t as little of prottotlon.fla may help to win mm fair trade throughout the world \ and, of course, I wish you every nucceas in your fight at Brighton. " Lord Knollya (the King's Secretary)' having been informed of th© faot that the Conservative candidate for East Grinstead Division of, Sussex was using posters displaying tho Royal Crown, his lordship has telegraphed In reply i— "The King certainly does not approve of the use of the Royal Crown for electioneering purposes. His Majesty strongly disapproves the two I of any emblems oftho Sovereign for suoh purpose*.— Knollys." Th* attention of the King having been drawn to the flse of his name on the election cards of Mr. Claude Lowther, Con* servative candidate for the Eskdale Divlslon of Cumberland, his Majesty ha* caused a letter to be sent, in this it was stated that while it was contrary to hla Majesty's rule to advise electors how they shall vote, he was confident that they would be showing no disloyalty to htm by recording thoir votes for one candidate or for another. The London Dally Telegraph on the British Ministry i It seems thnt there ii no Cabinet, but only a conglomeration of place-holder* to nil tho members of which the Prime Minister has issued a license "to go as they please." so long as they can scrape together a Radical majority of sorts. . . Is this to be described oo a "Spring Novelty," or as a "Clearance Balo of Radical Prindples?" Mr. Lloyd George, who is now a'Cabinet Minuter, supported the candidature of Mr. Havelock Wilson, who once, as a Labour man, defeatod both Liberals and Conservatives at Middlesbrough. Mr. WJlson was being opposed by a Labour candidate, a« well as by the late Unionist member. "Tho attempt of Mr. Keir JiarcHe ond his friends to turn out Mr. Havcloek Wfl«on, the Labour candidate for this constituency," declared Mr. Lloyd George, "Is exalting personal cantnnkwousnefls to the level of a political faith with which it has nothing In com*