IN THE COUNTY PALATINE.
PROTAGONISTS ON THE PLATFORM. MR. CHURCHILL ISSUES A MANIFESTO. LONDON, 17th Novembet. Forty thousand applications havo Deen made for five thousand seats in the Free Trade Hall to hear Mr. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, deliver his great speech at. Manchester to-night. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, has accepted an invitation by tho Lancashire and Cheshire Liberal Federation to deliver speeches in those counties in December. Mr. Churchill has issued a manifesto, which occupies a coUimn in the newspapers, against tariff reform in relation to Lancashire industries. Referring to the House of Lords, Mr. Churchill asks : "Why should a small cluster of titled persons be set up to rule all the rest of us? If the Lords establish a right to control finance, they will hinder all j Liberal legislation, and will allow the Conservatives' protection, conscription, coercion, and schemes of war conquest I to pass unchallenged."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1909, Page 7
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155IN THE COUNTY PALATINE. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1909, Page 7
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