The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-11
Necessary Limitations.


of their party,
Necessary Limitations.
The Liberal party, Mr.. Asquith de-
clared, was not promoting the abolition
of the house of lords or the setting up
of a single chamber, but it asked of the
electorate that the house of lords be
confined TO It's proper functions, and
that the absolute vote must go.
He personally did not underestimate
the odds against which he had TO con-
tend, but the government was unani'
nous In demanding the absolute con:
troll of the finances by the house of
commons. the maintenance of free trade
and an effective curtaiment of tho pow
er of the house of lords.
The meeting carried r resolution de
claring unabated confidence in Mr.. AS
duith S leadership. David Lloyd
George, chancellor of the eXchequer
who framed the budget rejected by the
house of lords, moved a vote of thanks
to the chairman Of the meeting. He
received an ovation.
Mr. Asquith was not alone in giving
TO the people their first real touch of
the campaign, for Arthur ]. Balfour
leader of the opposition in the house
of commons, made simultaneous plea
to them, in a quiet, dignltied elec tion
manifesto, addressed to the directors of
the city Of London. who have chosen
him as their candidate.
Balfour's Manifesto.
Mr.. Balfour's manifesto will be dis
appointing to an enormous section of
his political followers inasmuch as it
briefly dismisses tariff reforms as the
@ first plan' in the Unionist platform.
Mr., BalfOur makes no attempt to de-
fine tariff reform, but concentrates his
attack In an accusation that the LIB
cral government is engaging in a con-
splracy to destroy the constitution by
substituting a single chamber govern
ment, like that of Greece,
The manifesto is exceedingly long, IT
reviews the history of the crisis, and
declares that the government claim is
that the house of commons appeal to
the country, even in the most extreme
case
He cites the United States, where
the fundamental principle of the con-
stitution is that every class of prop
erty should he taxed, and says no such
measure as the British budget could be
adopted there without two thirds ma
iority in both houses, or become law
without O national mandate from the
still stronger majority of the country,
while, even If the house of represen
tatives imposed special taxation, it
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president.
q | am not so immoderate, says Mr.
Balfour, ''as to demand such security
for the British citizen, but only that,
if exceptional taxation is imposed at
caprice of minister. he should not
be deprived of the only means known
to the constitution by which an appeal
to his fellow countrymen may be OBJ.
tained.'
Mr.. Balfour charges the government
with having for four years engaged in
a conspiracy to secure a single cham
Der system, as in Greece. He admits
that the house of lords is open to re-
form, but says that the question is only
remotely connected with the present
issue.
After brief criticism OF the budget,
the manifesto refers at length to the
problem of unemployment as the one
extreme difficulty which 1T is impos.
sible to remedy by the government
proposals. It then proceeds to state
that Mr.. Balfour anticipates great re.
suits from tariff reform.