IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2693, 24 December 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

LLOYD GEORGE AND THE LORDS

United Press Association—Copyright,

LONDON, Dec. 22,

Mr. Lloyd-George, in a speech at Cardiff, declared: “The first thing is to settle the Lords’ veto, and all other things will be added unto you.”

Mr. Herbert Samuel has been addressing meetings in Colne Valley in opposition to Mr. Victor Grayson, the Socialist.

EX-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORGENERAL’S OPINION/

(Received December 23, 9.55 p.m.) ■ > LONDON, Dec. 23.

Lord Tennyson (formerly ' Governor of South Australia and GovernorGeneral of the Australian Commonwealth), speaking a,t Ryde, said that Britain was passing through the gravest crisis since the Napoleonic wars. The Radicals were tampering with and trying to wreck the constitution by abolishing the veto of the House of Lords, which"' was the only bar. to bad, mad legislation.. When in Australia he was a, freetrader, but he had come back a believer in tariff reform, coupled with preferential duties, because he had a clearer view of the needs of the Empire. Australians had learned the lesson that it -was folly to confiscate land by high taxation, and were now settling working men on land bought iby valuation under’ ' arbitration. This was fairer than the method proposed by the Radical-Socialist Budget. The motto of the present Government seemed to be “War between classes,” with extravagance and revolution headed by wily Winston and a windv-headed -Welshman.