British Politics

Southland Times, Issue 19554, 8 May 1905, Page 2

British Politics

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Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, confessed that the Goverm men't’s greatest embarrassment sprang from their education policy. Doubtless amendments were desirable, but he warned the Radicals and non-conformists that they would be unable to deal therewith while they are dependent on the Nationalists. Our treatment of the Poors had been more liberal than tho world ever saw and ho asked whether we had received reasonable recognition therefor. > iHe was anxious lest we had done too much ; lest we ha given the Boers an opportunity t recover, by political agitation, wha they lost by the war.

Mr Balfour, speaking to the Prim rose League, bitterly commented on the Opposition’s flood of misropre* sentation of the Chinese laboun question and their querulous disap» pointment owing to the fruits oil office being still withheld from One effect of the approach of a gen oral election l was tho conspicuous al teration of Radical tactics towards tho aliens, agricultural and education Acts. He declared that the Education and Licensing Acts embodied principles o£ reform whereon the country would never go back. The Radicals refused to explain theii] Irish policy and their advent to office would give little comfort to colonists who took the British Empire seriously.