IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. RIFAL FLAGS. Prws Asweixtjon—Bj Telfgraph—Copjnjh. LONDON, January ?f----(Received January 27, at 5.5 a.The Home Secretary (Mr M'K n v augurated the Welsh Dir.e.Jt,: 1 '■ campaign at the Queen's Hall, nounced that, subject to exist bur terests, the Government proposer! endow the Church to the extent of i' per annum, and to devote the m. national purposes. A number of suffragettes, who fre interrupted Mr M"Kenr,a, wer**. eip'' Presiding at a meeting in the Bir;ham Tomi Hall, Mt J. Ramsay Mac-.' aid appealed to Labor leaders to go : : ward until the red flag of liberty and ;ci entiJic socialism had superseded the skal! and crossbones of the British Tariif Uc*forruer. MB HABCOUBT AND TARIFFS. THE CERTAIN CAUSE OF DISINTEGRATION. LONDON, Jannary 26. (Received January 27, at 8.5 a.m.) Speaking at Bacnp, the Colonial Secretary iMr Bacnp) said that no one at the Imperial Conference had suggested that the British fiscal system should be altered for their profit to the injury ot tie working classes of Great Britain. If there was a danger of this country losing the colonies without a tariff, then they would lose them any way, because -whatever causes of friction might exist with the colonies, and he knew of none, they would be. increased a hundredfold by the haggling between State and State and trade and trade through their conflicting interests.