A SPEECH FROM MR ASQUITH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5334, 24 January 1906, Page 4

A SPEECH FROM MR ASQUITH.

The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking at St. Andrew's, declared that the Socialist bogey now superseded the Home Rule bogey. He hailed with -great satisfaction the Laborites' enormous gains in the Commons, where they would realise the complex organisation of the body politic, unlearn some of the things in j which they originally believed, drop visionary detail, and be steadied by responsibility. Mr Asquith denied that the Liberals conducted a- campaign of mendacity and passion. They won because the people preferred the plain, commonplace, uncolored facts of history to gaudy and fictitious tariff propaganda. The Liberals did not desire Mr Chamberlain's ideal of a self-support-ing, self-contained Empire. It was better to encourage the freest commercial intercourse between the nations.