IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2690, 21 December 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

HOAIE RULE THE GREAT ISSUE

(Jnitku I’kkss Association —Cor vitioiiT. LONDON, Dec. 19.

Lord Cromer, speaking at Sheffield, advised Unionists and freetraders to vote for Unionist candidates in all circumstances. . ; '' 1 v

Lord Durham, in a letter, states that Sir Edward Grey’s profession of faith in Home lUxle was a- signal {proof of the complex and conflicting issues awaiting the electors. “It is,” he said, “grievous that a Minister enjoying Sir Edward Grey’s reputation should weaken his authority abroad and the confidence! at home by declaring themselves incompetent to rule a United Kingdom. The painful truth is that Ministers are only united in one resolve, by hook or by crook to cajole the electors to return them to power, but it is becoming evident that the old Liberal banner has been trampled in the mud, and the red flag hoisted in its place. The Radicals are harnessing themselves to the Socialist car, wherein Mr Lloyd George holds the reins and Mr Winston Churchill cracks, the whip.” Mr Fuller, Liberal Whip, at a meeting at AViltshire, stated in re/plying to Mr Walter Long’s questions: 1 “I do not favor Home Rule as propounded 1 by Mi' Redmond, although much might be said in favor of Mr Birrell’s local self-government.”

Mr AA 7 inston Churchill, speaking at Warrington, said: “Any man claiming to have discovered the solution of the unemployment problem is a rogue.” The Development Act, he said, would feel the way towards machinery for handling the problem, and the Government. if returned 1 , would introduce insurance against unemployment.