FIRST SHOTS IN THE GREAT BATTLE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12388, 8 December 1909, Page 5

FIRST SHOTS IN THE GREAT BATTLE.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL DRAWS IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

Received Decembei- 7, 9.45 p.m

LONDON, December: 7.

Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at So nth port, said he thought it right; early in th? fight to differentiate betwe?n hereditary Tionarchy and here-' ditary peers. Tho Sovereign reignedyj but did not govern. His powers were, exercised on the advice of his Ministers. I The monarch had no interests diver-; gent from the people. He laid stress,, on the fact that the Transvaal and Orangia had been given a great Constitution by letters patent under the Crown without submitting them to the Lords. Had they been so submitted they would have beelfi mutilated and mauled under the influence of such an. evil counsellor as Lord Milner. The whole movement of the world was against the Lords' greedy intrusion in legislation. .He asked why 600 titled persons should govern and their children govern ours for ever? If an tinreformed and partisan House of Lords was continued, then the reign of two great parties would be closed for ever, and the parties» would be grouped on violent lines, when brute force and class hatred instead of forbearance and public spirit would become the characteristics of British political life.