MR BALFOUR AT EDINBURGH.
ADDRESS TO CONSEiR-VATIVE WORKING MEN. (Received Oct. 23. 10.30* a.m.) LONDON. Sunday. Mr. Balfour. Deader of the Opposition, speaking to the Conservative Working Men's Club at Edinburgh, said they should teach, the rising generation that after national defence they should place Imperial) unity, and after fcha't social reform. He charged Radicals of to-day witH abandon!no; iihe theories of earlier gnerations and introducing "simpler theories of their own. If the people examined the specht-s of Mr. Lloyd-George, for instance, they would find that he always measured .benefits accruing to one class -by the amount taken from the pockets cf another class. worst that could 'be said against the national scheme of insurance was the Prime Minister's declaration in favour of a gene ral contributory scheme. State assistance might do in Germany, but it was unsuited to the .national genius '-J Britons. The Bill provided for the iustv wageearner. but the abjectly poor received scant treatment. Mr. "a.io'ur condemned the Government proposals for closuring in order to pass the Bill before the end of tihe vear.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 23 October 1911, Page 5
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178MR BALFOUR AT EDINBURGH. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 23 October 1911, Page 5
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