The Irish standard., 1901-06-22

been in a more dangerous condition
than ours. (Nationalist cheers)
'What is the uttermost you can rea-
sonably expect to get from the colon
les? All that we can in reason expect
to get from them at the highest esti-
mate would relieve us of Id. in the in
come tax. This would be the colonial
contribution. Lord Avebury-once a
well-known member of this House, Sir
John Lubbock-said, and I thought he
put it concisely, that we used the
word Imperial in two senses. When
the expenditure was incurred it was
the whole of the empire, but when it
was matter of paying the bill i'm
perialism was confined to the British
Islands. Qrish ironical cheers)
'There (pointing to the Irish bench
es)-is one of the British Islands-(pro-
longed Irish cheers)-and the one that
has suffered most from our misrule-
(renewed Irish cheers)-and that for
lorn island is compelled to pay it's
share of this enormous charge, while
the colonies, far better off than our
own poor people, are able to feast
feast is not the right word-are able to
enjoy old age PENSIONS.
The observations which fell from
the chancellor of the exchequer on
Monday night about the war struck
the speaker very much.
He said: eff the issue was whether
Briton or Boer should be supreme in
South Africa, then the expenditure Of
f140, 100000 is a trife in comparison.
ministerial cheers.) would say in
passing that it is rather a new reading
Of the orthodox formula. l thought it
was to be equal rights (Cheers.l
Equal rights! 1t appears that it is not
that-it is not to be equal rights-.it is
to be the mastery of one race over the
other. (Cheers) (N1r. John Redmond:
But they are not masters yet.)
eyes, masters of one race over the
other, and in the name of the masters
you have suppressed two little states
which had as good title-Coud cries
Of No from the ministerial benches
and opposition cheers)-as good a title
|-(cries Of 'NoD-I hope honorable men,
bers will listen to- meas good a title,
if public law has any validity at all,
to govern themselves as you have.
(Cheers.)
II think it was a right honorable
friend Of mine who said some of my
friends have said some very embarras-
sing things Qaughter)-that the gov
ernment of the South African Republic
was an imposture. (Ministerial cheers.)
"Be it so, but at all events it was
a government which the people to
whom the country belonged cherished
| |-(Nationalist cheers)-and have given
their lives for" (Renewed Nationalist
cheers.)
Then followed burning denuncia-
| tiOn Of the war.
'The chancellor Of the exchequer's
expenditure of f15O,OOO,OOO has
brought not what British statesmen
wanted, but precisely what they did
not want. (Cheers)
ut has brought material havoc and
ruin unspeakable; unquenched and, for
long, unquenchable racial animosities;
task Of political reconstruction of
Incompatible difficulty; and all the
other consequences which I need not
dwell upon of this war, which 1 think
hateful war; war insensate and
nfatuated-(oheers)-a war of uncom-
pensated mischief and irreparable
wrong" prolonged cheers.)
| Mr.. Morley proceeded to warn the
chancellor Of the eXchequer that if the
government continued their policy of
wild venture, and in order to defray
the cost maintained the income tax at
its present high figure, irresistible de-
mands would be made for readjust-
ment Of the incidence of this source of
revenue.
] Mr.. Morley closed eloquently thus: