IMPORTANT SPEECHES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 November 1913, Page 5

IMPORTANT SPEECHES.

CABLE_ NEWS.

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MR BONAR LAW AT BIRMINGHAM. SIR EDWARD CARSON WILL GO STRAIGHT OX. (Received Last Night, 0.0 o'clock.) LONDON, November 22. Mr Bonar Law, Leader of tho Opposition, speaking at a Unionist ci>monstration at Birmingham, alluded to Mr John Redmond's protest against dragging" the Crown into the Home Rule controversy. He recalled the fact that twelve years ago Mr Redmond had assailed the J)ublin Corporation for debasing itself at the feet of Queen Victoria. Members of the House of Commons remembered when their army was defeated in South Africa and their soldiers were lying dead on the battlefield, how the Nationalists faised exulting slioults of triumph. The man with this record was now urging the Government to use troops to shoot down loyalists in a country where the "National AnfTlem" was derided. If the Nationalists thought the Soldiers were going on such an errand, they were mistaken. • Referring to the labour unrest, Mr Bonar Law said the real problem of statemansliip was to get a fairer distribution of wealth without drying up the sources of wealth. The Trades Unions had helped the workers in raising wages, though not in- the last decade, because the more the unions were devoted to politick and becoming the mouthpiece of a single party, the less was their influence upon the country. He believed that change in ! the fiscal system would tend to raise wages. He thought a general election was not far distant. Sir Edward Carson, who followed Mr Bonar Law, declared that he would go -straight on, and would never take the slightest notice of the suggestion for a compromise.