THE IMPERIAL BUDGET.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14005, 14 September 1909, Page 5

THE IMPERIAL BUDGET.

SEVERANCE FROM LIBERALISM. THE GLASGOW SPEECH. Tress A.wooiation-B.y Telegraph-Copyright ■„:;.■■■ " >; -' ; '^LONI>ON, ; i Lord Rosehery resigned the"*"'presidency of the Liberal before be delivered his Glasgow; speech. Mr Asquith, Earl Grey and Mr Haldano arc' among the presidents. ? ' ' The Radical provincial newspapers bitferly criticise " Lord Rosebery's. speech. The . " Sheffield Telegraph" suggests that Lord Rosehery has come down from Olympian' heights to fight tho Budget." The ''Birmingham Post" says that 'Lord ' Rosebery's statements will do much totalise the silent "voter/ to "think hard. •.;''• The " Pall Mall Gazette" states tliat City oP m 'on .is most unanimous that Lord vßosebery has sm;islied the Budgets The speech is bound to have a tremendous effect in Scotland. ; The House and: Town Planning Bill has been read a first time; in the House of' Commons. ■ ■ ,T ;; MASS OF OPINIONS. FilOM THE GOVERNMENT SIDE. ■■•-' • /■,-.. ..; K£ \-:. v Received.9.3o lStli. { ':.:■ ' LONDON, Sept: 12. *Mr Lloyd Georgej oiv s beiiig - inter-; viewed described Lord Rosebery's speech as a ■'.." .soft-nosed torpedo/' iColonel Seely, speaking at Liverpool, said the speech, was J inconclusive. \l the Lords. us<xl their power to destroy the Budget the people,would use theirs to destroy the peers:

Mr Acland said .that thore Svere a riiiihbcr of: peers known in London as .'■.' wild men from the woods," who regarded land taxfes front so.narrow and selfish a standpoint- as,not to be win? ing in tliOAieycijt;of Mri Balfour and his people thinking it best to let the Finance; Bill -pass,, obey Lord Lans.downe. if'tliat ..happened and despite the Conseryatiye'party,' Jthoso wild and uncontrollable peers Who emerged from tlieir hiding-places, only 011 .great occasions rejected tlic Budget, then purely as to-morro\v's sun would rise, the Budget would smash them. , ; Mr Macnamara, in.-a.,- speech! at Grimsby, said that Lord' Rosebery's address: was reminiscent of the Jackdaw of Rhcims. : Lord Roscbery and the Unionists were at one'iu regarding the Budget, but while the Unionists proposed the alternative of tariff reform, Lord Roscbery- had no practical alternative. Any tampering of the Budget i by the Lords lead to• a'.-de-claration by .the people against the peers. . ■'■•.•' " ■/ : "■ '' ''<; , .'

Mr Ure, sjx'iiking at: Coventry, said: that- as an attack on the Budget Lord, Rosebery's .speech /was hopolcssly ( in- ; effective, futile, harmless and yain. : It would prove- the greatest help the > Budget had yet received. There were only two ways of attacking the Budget A critic could say the . expendi-. ture Avas wrong, or', that "this-was not the right .way to raise maney, arid I shall show; you- a better." Since Lord llbsebery had not assumed either position it was. clear that he like Lord Rothschild and other great bankers knew that this Budget was the only just and fair 'method toi secure the necessary millions, .:.,..,. j Mr Giillarid, in au address at Edinburgh, said that the cuthusiasih everywhere shown for the. ;Biidget would, he nicreased. ;by 'v'Hlie: • speech from . the ..-raven ... -croaking onhis withered branch." If the Ijords rejected the Budget they -would raise an issue which might cost them their coronets. A mandato must.then he received, besides the carrying of tho Finance Bill, to permanently curb-the-.'cruel and blighting power of the Lords. . 'Mr Walter Long, at Market Livington, said that Lord Rosebery's indictmerit of the Budget was so-)x>werful and trenchant tjint it left nothing to bo said by- aiiybody in furtherance of the compaign against the Final .e I»;'ll. The business ineii of Newcastle rre inciting Lord; Rosehery to. address tl em on the Budget, .:;.;.,.