IMPERIAL POLITICS.
AN ANTI-BUDGET SPEECH. MR BALFOUR’S REMARKS. United Phess Association —Copyright , LONDON, July 28. Air Balfour, in the course of his antiBuilget meeting speech, declared that those who might have doubted the necessity for fiscal reform before the Budget could surely doubt it no longer. Those who saw what, in the hands of the present Government, freetrade finance really meant must have lost illusions in proposals which had a real basis of sound finance behind them in the o'Al days of Peel and Gladstone, but which had lost all their justification, and were rapidly losing all their glamour, and would soon be rejected by a commonsense community as a whole. Mr Balfour, addressing an overflow meeting, declared that the Budget embodied the beginning of a Socialist propaganda, aiming to destroy private property, not by a sanguinary revolution, but by a peaceful method, slightly more prolonged, but not the less efficacious, unjust, undue taxation. (Cheers.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2567, 30 July 1909, Page 5
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155IMPERIAL POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2567, 30 July 1909, Page 5
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