SPEECH BY MR BALFOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11567, 16 January 1913, Page 5

SPEECH BY MR BALFOUR.

THE GOVERNMENT'S DUPES.

A SOLEMN WARNING

Press Association—Electric Teleerapb—Copyright. (Received Thursday, at 11 a.m.)

LONDON, Wednesday

Hou. A. J. Balfour, in moving the rejection of the Home Eulo Bill, said the Government promised the Nationalists nationality, the British people peace, and the taxpayer economy. They had told the advocates of Home Rule all round that this step would mean the disintegration of the United Kingdom, and they told Imperialists that it was a step towards unity of Empire. All had been duped, and the greatest dupes were the Nationalists and the British people. The Bill gave Ireland rights too great for Britain's fiscal interests. The Government, on the other hand, had done its utmost to deprive the Irish Government of what every self-governing Dominion possessed. After expressing himself shocked at the utter and dangerous want of comprehension of the Ulster problem, ho warned the House that "if calamities arose, if blood were spilt (which God forbid!) then the real assassins were those who never had the courage to face the situation. "