THE FIERY CHANCELLOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11934, 23 March 1914, Page 5

THE FIERY CHANCELLOR.

FIGHTING SPEKCH AT JIUDDERSPIHLD. •'GiiHATKST issue sixci-: r mu-: 01? .STUARTS.- , ULSTE K"S ATTITU DE ATTACK ED. (Received Monday, at 8.10 a.m.) LONDON", Sunday. The Wight Hon. I). Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking: in tlit l afternoon a.t Huddersfield, said a grave issue had arisen in the history of democratic government. The country was confronteil with the greatest issue since tin; time of tJio Stuarts. Representative Government was at stake. In answer to a question as to Avhether tin , progressive Bills which the Tori-.'S opposed were to be honoured or thrown into the waste-paper basket, lie said: — "if Lil.ieralisin Jlinches an inch befo.-e those insolent, arrogant plagues it is unlit any longer to be the instrument for the control of a great Empire, and it is time it ma.de way for a sterner and more highly-mettled body of British progression. The Government mean to confront this defiance of popular liberties with resolution and unwavering determination, whatever be the ha/.zard. We are not lighting about Ulster; we are lighting for all that is essential >:o civil liberty."

The Orangemen, he continued, professed to be shocked that force should be used for setting up a great free selfgoverning parliament, in Ireland. When did Ulster acquire her detestation i«i" coercion? Coercion presented no horrors when the Orangemen evicted Catholic peasants for non-payment •:.?.

extortionate rates. Ulster was a spoilt child. She has heard so much about her volunteers that she thinks them something terrific. TheGovenimcnt's proposal was to give her time for the .swelling to subside. The Opposition rejected the Government's offer Avitli contempt and indignation. As regards a. referendum, the Opposition had one in 1010. He doubted whether the majority of the Opposition were anxious for a settlement. If the Ulster question were settled, they would ha-'e no policy left. "Seurrillity and tittletattle never carried a party anywhere except to the gutter," concluded the Chancellor.