REPLY TO CRITICISMS.
LESSONS FRO.M SISTER STATES. . MR. BALFOUR'S DISAPPOINTMENT. LONDON, 2nd December. Mr. Balfour, Unionist leader, speaking at the railway-sheds at Reading, said the only explanation of the incoherent fury with which the referendum proposal was received was that under it a majority of the people would be found to favour tariff reform. He Teminded the critics that the referendum, was part of the free and representative institutions given to the Great Australian Commonwealth. Since the referendum was actually in operation_ in one of the sister States of the Empire ne could not conceive why it was regarded as such strange alien machinery. The referendum had not ruined Australia. Moreover, the. trade unions use the referendum daily, and it does not ruin them. Every Radical should welcome it as fulfilling hia dearest aspiration, namey, consulting the people. Mr. Balfour said he was painfully disappointed that his counter challenge regarding Home Rule had been treated with silent contempt.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 5
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