IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5920, 8 October 1910, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

L"v;j i:n, .)-l. o. Mr Balfour, speak".ng a» Ldinb.Tgh, said that if Trades Unions wire perverted into political asocial r.u-s the members would be forced to conlr,bute to the imyments of memoers of Parliament with whose politics many disagreed, and that recalcitrants would be deprived by the Union ot their 1 enef.ts, which would be intolerable tyranny. Oct. G. Mr Balfour, speaking at Edinburgh, said that whatever might be the success of the Constitutional Conference, the remit in future must be good. Representation of Labour in Parliament was necessary, but he refused to admit that payment of members was, the only alternative to r«vemil_ _ ol the Osborne decision. As the Unionists were not the physicians called in

to deal with the case they wc-ul' perscribe. Tf reversal or payment were the only alternatives he accepted the hitter. He emphasised the necessity for a great increase of small freeholders, and ■ advocated Govern- , munt assistance in tho purchase of freeholds. «TTe. Jookod forward to Greater Britain entering into conference with a Government whose attitude was one of thickheaded abstinaey towards colonial preference. I