BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS

Evening Star, Issue 14524, 28 November 1910, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS

IN THE COUNTRY. GI^rnNcTIUSADY. Mr ASQUITH"AT HULL. THE ELECIX)ESMUSr DECIDE. Pirjs Aswoeuiioi:—By Teie^i'sph—Copyright;, LONDON, NoYcmber 'm. In the course of au addrctu at Hull Mr Aivqnith was frequently interrupted by suffragettes. He declared that the approaching election would bo tho most momentous in British history. The Veto Conference having failed, the question a.ro<Jo: Ought they to waste another twelve months over a futile ©ritorpriEe? Liberal legislation under existing conditions .was a hopeless task. The electors at amy rate were not under the domination of Mr Redmond, nor wero they compelled to adopt any particular lino. The conversion of the Rous* of Lords to tho referendum was the most remarkable conversion in political history, but their resolutions would destroy tho Iwsis of government by representation. A democracy without repie. t >cr.tiUJon would soon •dogenerato into juiatciiy or Ctesarism. fle <ieniod that tho Liberals had planned and schemed for a Single Chamber. Their plan was not put forward as the final solution, but as the least that was necessary for real progress. He repeated his Albert Hall statement (1909) in favor of self-government for Ireland, thus freeing tho Imperial Parliament from much work. Ho belioved that the Government's efforts in tlus direction would liavc- the sympathy of an overwhelming majority of tho Oversea Dominions, who had learned how easy it was to combine local autonomy with Imperial loyalty. Ho urged the electorates to concentrate their attention on tho more immediate task of winning fair play for Liberal legislation. They miu-t make the people, through their representatives, really and effectively supreme in legislation. All other issues, however great and multifarious, were subordinate. Mr Asijiiith condemned tho referendum, which, ho eaid, would impair, if not destroy, the sense of parliamentary responsibility. He demanded the possession of the key for unlocking the gate of the people's rights. WHAT THE COUNTRY MUST 1)0. LONDON, November 27. Mr C. E. Hobhouso (Financial Sec re tat y to the Treasury), in the coni.se of hi.i election address, say 6 that, cowed by the Liberal triumph at tho jiolls, the Poors passed the Budget they had previously denounced, but declare that the Mibr.iiksion referred to tho liudgot alone. Ix't tho country now loach tiicin that their day was over, and that, in addition to our principal -aork, we must al«o maintain Freetrade, whereon our commercial supremacy and political liberties (iojieiKl for froedom from financial, even from political, trusts. MR BLTIN'S ASU THE LORDS. LONDON. November 26. Mr John Burns (President of tho Load Government Board), speaking to his Battersea constituents, said that tho 1/irds only obstructed the people's Parliament when in the main their interest or social claw privileges were threatened. The Lords anjoyed the favors of office and pjnViuments that should go to the m<*t capable and worthy men of all classes. He advocates »rach legislative independence as will enable Ireland to rovivo her industries, maintain her populalion, and stimulate social and agrarian prosrwrity in accordance with Irish ideas. Inferring, to questions of Imperiai cni]>remacy, the Federal British Parliament will remain ioiviolate as regards Imperial mailers, aj)d also in the- ma iter of ad ill:, for men and worn or.. MR CHURCHILL AT BHADFORD. THE REFi'IRKNDrM. LONDON, November 27. (Received November 23, at 8.16 a.m.) Speaking at Bradford, Mr Churchill said tbc.ro was notliuig undemocratic in the Referendum proposal. The (juestion of female suffrage might well be submitted in this wav to the people. He believed that a great increase in the taxafckm on wealth, m designed i* to alter the jiresent, extxaordi n;uy disparity in ite distribution, conki bo c;irried by a referendum: therefore tho latter was no bar to radical progress, though it would be unfair to minorities like tho Welsh, Irish, and Scotch, whose &pcdal points of view might bo brushed 'aside through the indifference of the majority in other parts of the United Kingdom. AN IRISH UNrONLST. ULSTER WILI""nRTKR SCKMIT. LONDON, Norantnw 26. Speaking at LiT<-.rj:*x)l, Sir K. H. Carson, K.C. (member for Dnblin University), said that the Government were krth that their measn.'-es :diouid be referred to tl» people, but tlie Houee of Lordi had oompened tbt-.m to refer 'jio I'.coLge* to tb» cooulry. After the etection I'arliaroesit bad waited for months, but there liad been no Bxhigr>t, Mr P-edmond had had to be squared. The Government had bribed tAr llodmond to let the Budget paesj but Ireland w.'M determined that there xhfrold iw no t,c«:on<l Budg«t.. and today the Govwnm«nt dp-red not seud Form 4 to iTwiand. liislimen iiad double the money in tit, savings hank compared with twenty years api, but they only gave Mr Redmond ye*o© when the ix>rdn and Americans (fare dollars. The ifal qaeetiai before the country u:us whethf-r thsro shcnld be atrtowiMry <m anv Scotch majority of the Hooso of i>vninon."i. Bo foiy'told that th» men in tho North of I-ekuid would dovc.v yiekl to the dotninian cf the South. A LIBERAL STAAfPKL'S. LONDON. Mr Lj-ttelton iColoriial Becretory hi Mr Balfour's Ministry), speaking *t Goole, denouriced tlie■ eli<".tiou ;u> a ivtampedo by tM Liberals to prevent tl.-e j>sop!o from foify apprehending lb-.; dirasiroTis ccr.sequenreo of a. wrong decisica. Mr Redmond's jwrnoy irom. foreigners wa-s lx-ing used to upt:-n English peoplo a itrrohrtino -rsb'uii they did not want. HOW TO TSCST THE PEOPLE. LONDON, November 26. In the course of an Jtddrew to the Glasgow Unionist Council, Mr Aust«u Chamberlain caid the more democratic the country tho greater tho securities needed, lest those arrogating to them£clv« the right to speak in tho people's ntrcre betray j the people's cauce. DEFENCE OF THE LORES. LORD LANSDOWNE AT GLASGOW. LONDON, November 26. . Li tho course of an address to the Glasgow Unionist Coancil. J/)rd Liosdowne 6aid that tlie last four Liberal Administrations had created 136 poors. Yet in. the Budget division of 1909 only 73 toed the line. What had happened to the remainder? They were tmablo to etomach tho RadkalSoeialict diet. Mr Churchill's statement that Liberal legislation had encountered the black wall cf refusal was an unpardonable misstatement. Out of 230 measures during Jim. Ja6ii«^^oa^«dj^iJi^,hMa,ifc

jected by the Lords, .and those rejections were solely for tho purpose of referring them to the judgment of the people. Lord Lansdowne referred to Earl Carrington's statement that there had never been a time when such an amount of Liberal legislation had been adopted. The whole bother arose through the rejection of the Education, Licensing, and Finance Bilks. Neither the second nor tlio third Education Bill had been sent near the Lords. 'The Licensing Bill was most ruthless and vindictive legislation, and was thrown out on its morite, Tho Government took caro to have no election on that Bill. Tho Commons were overworked and were passing more and more ui-Act the domination of the party machine They were controlled by groups, wlio were ready to combine for sinister purposes. He was prepared to admit the predominance of tho Commons in finance, but tho Government denied tho Lords almost a'J &pjwtuniity of dealing with other fields of'legislation. Tariff Reform was tho most important plank of the Unionist constructive legislation.

PERILS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

LONDON, November 27. (Received Novtmber 28, at 8.30 a.m.) Ixird Rosebcry has consented to address at Muuch.-*tcr a non-party meeting of one thousand «itizniis of varying jxilitics. Edinburgh ha.s also requisitioned his lordship to address the eiti/eiiS on perils to the Constitution. MORE PREDICTIONS. LONDON, November 27. (Received November 28, at 8.50 a.m.) Mr Garvin, editor of the 'Observer' (0.), says that if the referendum is good for Home Ruie, it must equally affect Tariff Reform. This principle of boldly offering to submit Tariff Reform to a national vote will sweep Lancashire, and change the light to gain votes into a light to win. IN THE COMMONS. THE LOR?)S UPSET. LONDON, November 26. The HniifiO of Commons sat for two minutes to-d:iy. The brevity of the fitting upset the Poets' calculations,"and when the Clerk of the House of Lords appeared with Lord Lansdowne's resolutions he found that the House of Commons had risen. The Lords' comiiiunicition wi.'.l duly appear iu the House of Commons journals. ELECTION ITEMS. TROUBLE AT~MILE END. ANGRY WITH THE CHANCELLOR. LONDON. November 27. Tho chief jilank in the platform of Mr L.-ii>.sl)ury, tho Tower Hamlets Labor candidate, is " work or maintenance." The moderato Liberals at Mile End are indignant with Mr Lloyd George for advising them to support Mr Lansbury, and thev' meet on Monday to consider the claims of Liberal candidates. .Some advise supporting the Unionist. DUKE AND CHANCELLOR. A REVERSION TO TYPE. LONDON, November 27. (Rooeived November 28, at 10.5 a.m.) Addressing a meeting, tho Duke of jiiarlborough said that when he interviewed Mr Lloyd George three yeans ago ho did not suspect for in*(the Dnkr) would become a. target for insolent and unsavory invectiw. H« then thought Mr George a gentleman, but he seemed to have reverted to his type ;uid become himself. What did tho pool' think of this sham jwor man with his £5,000 a year stirring up cla.se hatred '! The Duke reminded Ids audience of Mr George's cowardly attack on the Lords through their ladies—an insult that affected one of his own colleagues in the Cabinet. PLAGUE ON BOTH YUUR HOUSES. WHY THE GOVERNMENT DISSOLVED. LONDON. November 27. (Received November 5:8, at 10.5 a.m.) Sneaking at Kensington. Mr D. .1. R-eos, the' Liberal mo-mber for the Montgomery district, declared that he luwl resigned a wife l»ei»\i.-.e, at a moment like the present, hj« did not oar* a_ brass farthing about Libera''* or Conservative. Tho election was being wantonly rushed be.rau.se some few personu, who loved the people to tho tune of £5 000 » year, saw oflices slipping from them. HOW THE REFERENDUM WOULD WORK. LONDON. November 27. (LVneived November 28. at 10.5 am.) Speaking at Edinburgh. Mr Lloyd G-eorge said ihat if a referendum were taken on the Scotch Ijand Bill it woidd be voted out by tho English, Irish, and Welsh, who know nothing about the question- A moderate estimate of the cost of a referendum was half a. million, which would fall upon the. ratepayers. Mr George, the ' Daily Telegraph' stotos, will be opposod for the Carnarvon district by Mr Austin .Jones. WHERE TIIITFAIUMEi: (XSMKS IN. LONDON, NovomtxT 27. (Received November 20, at 10.5 a.m.) Addressing a meeting at Manchciiter. Mr Bonar Law was asked : "If tlic.price of uhvat will not be raised, how will the fiwrnrms benefit?" Mr Law replied : " Their prooora.l is not for protection, but for gnt*i. r :.g preference with tho colonies. 1 do not think the farmers will benefit lithe least." ANTI-SOCIALIST UNION. LONDON. November 27. (Bnreived November 23. at 10.5 a.m.) Tho Anti-SiKaali.-t Union have despatched a hundred and fifty shakers tiirouscli the country to assist m t!r_- work of tllo Geuoral Election.