LORD ROSEBERY AND THE BUDGET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 4

LORD ROSEBERY AND THE BUDGET.

MINISTERIAL CRITICISMS. .LONDON., Monday, j jtfr Lloyd George, interviewed,; de"-; 5 scTibed Lord Rosebery's speech as aj "soft-nosed. torpedo." j , Colonel Seely, Under-Secretary t i or the Colonies, speaking at Liver-! pool, said the speech was inconclu- j sive. If the House of Lords used its power to destroy the Budget, tho' people would use, theirs to destroy the peers. . Mr F. D. Acland, in a speech, said there were a number of peers known ■in London as <(wild men from;- the woods," who regarded land taxes from, so narrow and selfish a standpoint as not to be willing, in the event of Mr Balfour and his people thinking it best to let the Finance^' Bill pass, to obey*. If that happen-, od, and despite tho Conservative! party, .those wild, uncontrollable peers who emerged from their hiding places only on great occasions, rejected the Budget, then, as surely as to-morrow's sun would rise, the Budgot would smash.;them. IDr. McNamara^ in a speech at Cr. MeNamara, Secretary" of, •the Admiralty, said Lord Roseoeiy'a. speech was reminisceßt of -the "Jackdaw of Rheims," Lord Rpsebery and the Unionist? were at one regarding the Budget; but while the Unionists proposed the alternative of tariff reform, Lord Bosebery ...hac£ no practical alternative. Any tampering -with the Budget by the House of Lords would, lead to a declaration by the people , against the peers. | Mr A. Uro, speaking at Coventry, said that as an attack on the Bud-, get, Lord Rosebery's speech was hopelessly ineffective, futile/ harm-, less, and vain. It was the greates help the Budget had yet received, There were only two ways of attacking the Budget. The critic could say that tho expenditure was wrong, or, '' this is not the right way t0(, raise money; I will show you a bet-, tor." Since Lord Bosebery had not assumed either position, it was clear that he, like Lord Bothachild and tho great bankers, knew that this Budget was the only just and fair method to secure the -necessary millions. . ! ' Mr J. W. Gulland, in a speech at Edinburgh, said the enthusiasm everywhere shown for the Budget would be increased by the speeeff from a'faven croaking on his withered branch. X£ th§"LpHs rej.ec.ted'tlie Budget, they would raise" an "iss'u§ which might cost them their coro? nets. 1 Mr Walter Long, speaking at Market Livington, said Lord Bosebery'9r indictment of the Budget was so powerful and trenchant that it left nothing to be said by anybody. In furtherance of the campaign against"'the Bjnfl^je Bill, the business men of Newcastle are 'inviting Jjord, Rosebery to address them on "tue Budget question.