SINK OR SWIM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10926, 15 November 1913, Page 5

SINK OR SWIM.

CHANCELLOR'S FATE. BONAR LAW'S SARCASM AND THE THREE EGGS. iPy Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 14. Mr Bonar Law said that while recognising the importance of tariff reform, it sank into insignificance in the presence of dangers threatening the country. Referring to tho land campaign, he said that apparently Mr Lloyd George had been sent out into tho cold world alone to sink or swim. The Chancellor had likened himself to n stormy petrel, but he resembled an ostrich dropping its eggs in the sand and leaving .their subsequent fate to the wind or the sun. Tho land tax was an egg which yielded £223,000 and rost £1,300,000 in valuations and collections. The Insurance Bill was another egg which was causing many .sreat friendly societies to drift rapidly into insolvency. , The greatest egg was tho oani- | paign against landowners. Tho 1 Government should have endeavoured to secure the co-operation of all classes interested in the land, instead of instituting a campaign against one class. 1 f the Government coerced Ulster without the sanction of a general election, the Unionists would support Ulstermen in the use of every means to prevent British troops shooting down loyal Irishmen. , It was the Government's plain duty to submit the question to nn election or' a referendum. Ix>rd Selbome. in a speech at Bristol, declared that the Unionists' sole proposal if approached with a view to snttling Home Rule .would be a general election., ■COMPULSORY INSURANCE. (Received November 1-5, 10 a.m.) •...''■ " LONDON, November-14. Mr Bonar Law, at Norwich, added that the Unionists would endeavour to! replace the muddled compulsory Insurance Bill by a voluntary system. UNIONISTS' CONFERENCE. He Unionist Conference at Norwich passed resolutions in favour of discontinuing the payment of commissioners, j and also'against women's suffrage until I the electorates sanctioned it.