“ TURN OUT THE LIBERALS.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 5

“ TURN OUT THE LIBERALS.”

NEW UNIONIST LEADER SPEAKS. APPEAL FOR TARIFF REFORM. Addressing a monster meeting in the Leeds Coliseum, Mr A Bonar Law, the new Unionist leader, urged the imposition of a tariff as a moans of raising the general 1 level of wages. He did not pretend, however, that a tariff would prove a cure for all the ills from which the country was suffering, but he field that it would be a remedy for the greatest ill—the cliroipc lack of employment. Mr. Law called on all Unionists to work for the turning out of the Liberals and for tariff reform, and to fightagainst the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales, and against Home Rule-

Referring to the Canadian election, he said the result was, as Air. Balfour bad stated, not only the most, remarkable political event of the year in the Empire, but. as lie believed, it would turn out to bo a landmark in the history of the world.

“If we are to understand the full significance of these elections, let us consider not what the Radical speakers and the Radical press say, but what they liave said. Then we were tout that reciprocity marked a great- step toward freetrade. If that were true, then the rejection of the treaty is not a step but a leap backwards from what they call freetrade. AVe were told that the treaty was a death-blow to the cause of Imperial preference. If that were true, then the rejection or the treaty has given new life to the cause.

“The controlling cause of the elections was that the Canadians believed, and I agree that President Taft- was right when he said it was a case of ‘now or never,’ because they believed that their decision would settle finally whether Canada was to continue an autonomous nation more closely united to the Empire or whether she would gradually come under the influence of a great and friendly nation Ring to the south. It was an ignorant and impudent claim to say that the elections did not bear on the cause of Imperial preference. They were, and are, an emphatic reminder that reciprocity in Imperial preference is the aim of Great Britain’s autonomous Domions. ’ ’