THE ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1923, Page 5

THE ELECTIONS.

UNIONIST IWIN EXPECTED PLANS TO EXPAND INDUSTRY. campaign SPEECHES ’ • By Telegraph— Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 29, 7.45 p.m. London, Nov. 29. Tariff reformers are countering the effort of the circular issued by Messrs. I. and R. Morley, wholesale hosiers, intimating that orders for imported manufactures are only accepted on the understanding that should a tariff be imposed a corresponding amount must be added to the prices at which the goods are sold. They detail twenty-two manufacturing firms in London, Birmingham and elsewhere who offer to employ 36,043 additional hands if Mr. Baldwin’s proposals to protect the home .■ market become operative. The British Electrical Association alone promises to employ fifteen thousand additional hands. The Yorkshire Post says there is accumulating evidence of anticipation of a Conservative triumph. Inquiries are being made regarding factories and factory sites in Britain, where goods now imported will be made, and a number of American and European firms have commenced negotiations for the purchase or rental of factories. MR. LLOYD GEORGE BUSY. Mr. Lloyd George during the day covered a great part of Lancashire. Commencing at Leeds, he spoke at every stopping place, where his supporters clambered on empty railway trucks to see and hear him. He left the train at Accrington and addressed a crowd of ten thousand, and later addressed five thousand at' Preston. Other meetings were held at Blackburn, Burnley and Oldham, whither he motored in a blinding snowstorm, and he made his ninth set speech. At Preston Mr. Lloyd George gave an amusing description of Lord Derby as an erring son of Lancashire, who nightly gave an exhibition of looping the loop. One day he was upright for the principles of free trade and next he had nis head down to his heels for protection. He would have fallen out long ago -if he had not been strapped in. He added: “Lord Derby flounders about like a harpooned walrus. He said last night that Trench statesmen prefer to deal with Mr. Baldwin rather than myself. I am sure they do.” (Laughter.) Lord Birkenhead, who is following Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Leeds, described Mr. Lloyd George’s recent travels as a reconciliation honeymoon. He added: “Life would be intolerable without its reconciliations.” (Loud laughter.) After doing more than any nation to win the war Britain was incomparably in a worse position than *afly of the conquering nations. No protected nation had such chronic unemployment. When he read Mr. Lloyd George's speeches he failed to find a single minute given to the consideration of this all-important problem. It was difficult to believe the country’s troubles could be solved by brilliant sarcasm and vivid raillery. Tree trade was a mad and senseless handicap, which the Government, with the help of the electors, meant to end.

PREMIER AT GLASGOW. Mr. Baldwin made a sixty-five minutes’ speech to a gathering in St. Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow, and later he addreaaed an overflow meeting. He said that in Glasgow eighteen per cent, of the people were living in one-roomed houses and eighteen per cent, were out of Work. It wa.s the duty of everyone to strive fdt a better standard of life, and for thia there was nothing better than regular employment. It was an unproved assertion that an increase in colonial trade would decrease our foreign trade.” Mr. Churchill is having a harrassing time at Leicester, owing to continual interruptions at his meetings by Socialist rowdies, but Mr. Churchill meets his intarruptors with considerable courage and quickness. Incidentally, he said Socialism was fatal to individual liberty. “What about conscription?” shouted a Socialist. ‘'Socialism means conscription for everything,” was Mr. Churchill’s retort. Mr. Asquith at Paisley received a patient hearing at his first meeting, but there was much ironical shouting and cheering during later speeches. Lord Derby, speaking at Liverpool, answering a taunt that he was a wealthy man, said: “I am not living on my income, but on my capital. Taxation is now so high that the time is coming when I may have to consider leaving Knowsley, which for so long has been the home of my ancestors. There is a capital levy already in existence in the form of death duties. When I succeeded my father I took twelve years to pay the duties.” THE PREMIER’S SON. CRITICISES GOVERNMENT. SOME PARTY VIEWS. London, Nov. 28. There was a piquant incident in Buckingham at a Labor meeting when Mr. Oliver Baldwin, the Premier’s son, criticised the Government’s inaction. The only thing the Government had done during the past year was wrongfully to arrest a number of persons and then have to pay compensation and to talk about protection. The only protection they wanted was protection against a Government like that. He advocated a Labor Government on the lines ruling in Georgia, South Russia, which was governed by the Social Democratic Party. Mr. J. H. Thomae, at Barrow, eaid that those who call the Laborites “Little Englanders,” declaring they did not believe in the Empire, were deliberate liars. They wanted to see the Empire great, but did not measure greatness by bloody victories or by the size of the army or navy. Mr. Churchill, at Leicester, said: “Whether we shall get Mr. Baldwin off the front bench I do not know, but I am certain we shall get Mr. MacDonald off the front Opposition bench.” Lord Denman, speaking at a Liberal meeting in Croydon, said that when he was in Australia Labor was in office for two years and, as Ministers, administrators and heads of departments, the Labor men were every bit as good as their Liberal opponents, so when people to-day spoke in rather unqualified and unmeasured terms of the Labor Party at Home, and said it was not fit to form I a Government and that kind of thing, I he said quite frankly that he did not I believe them. I Mr. Lloyd George, speaking in Leeds,

said that in travelling up and down the country he found a great Liberal revival, therefore victory was assured. Nero sent messages to his friends when they lost favor telling them to cut their veins; that was practically the choice given to the country between tariff refornf, which destroyed industry, and Communism, which destroyed the whole fabric of prosperity. Mr. Lloyd George described the Liberals as the feeding party and the Socialists as the bleeding party and predicted a vast majority of votes in favor of free trade. The Tories proposed to give trade a wooden leg and to allow it to limp along on a tariff.