The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-01-15

1911 y,
:. run, over q good. many honest people.
and 1t was danger to the public well
fare, SO am glad it has come to grief.
The roads will be safer for progress
in the future (ohsers). No honest
Liberal Bills could walk along the road
for it. They were knocked down. Now,
that is done for. (Cheers.) There
j. was nothing that struck him more, he
said, in reading the speeches Of the
Peers than their. promise, that they
would pass the Bud get. that they had
only got to give them the hint (laush-
teri. They were the miildest hammered
men that ever cut Liberal Bills
throat (aushter). But what they
would do after letting the Budget
through was to wait for the next meas
ure that was unwarily threading it's
way to the House of Lords.
! you cannot trust them" exclaimed
Mr.. Lloyd George, with dangerous
weapons (cheers).. You have got to
pass an Arms Act; no knives or pistols
in the hands Of the Peers. You cannot
trust them with them. They are dam
gerous. We are sick Of this garotting
of Liberal Bills, and 1 am very glad
the Prime Minister has said, Never
again.. Cloud cheers).: Wales he re-
marked, had special grievance against
the Peers. 1t was small country, and
therefore could be oppressed with i'm
punity (cries Of mo, no"). Well. they
thought so. That was another mistake
they had made (cheers). It was not
brave Assembly. 1t was not a Home
of Peers; it was a House of Fears
daughter and cheers). He had been
asked many times during the last three
years why they did not send UP Dis:
establishment Bill. 1t was absolutely
no good. The first thing was to settle
the veto of the Lords, and "all these
things will be added unto you" Cloud
cheers). The reason why the Peers
threw out the Budget was because, for
the first time, there was to be secured
an ionicial valuation that would protect
the public in future against .extortion.
When he gave instances Of that extor-
ton they said, "Calumny." Its UNI
true In the House Of Commons he
asked If it were untrue. would they
mind pointing out where? He was
present, sc. that he might answer them.
Three times he challenged them face
to face there. When it came to par
ticular part of the Bill in the House
he ,restated the Gorringe case. He said,
There now, what have you to say to
it?" and they never said word
daughter and cheers).
In one of his speeches he gave an illus
tration from a Cardiff letter, and the
people outside Cardiff seemed to be tax
ing great deal Of interest in the little
tailor's shop daughter and hear, hear).
He spoke of it being next door to the
Castle. If he said next door to Wind
sor Castle he would not mean bang up
to the door. If he said that man was
next door to fool what he would
mean. was that he was somewhere in
that .neighborhood. The same thing ap-
piled in Cardiff, Here was a shop
which, at. any rate, was in the inn
mediate, vicinity, quite near enough for
the, purpose Of valuation. Here was
one valuation for. a bridesmaids prem
ises, and for a great baronial mansion.
Here were 100000 square yards valued
at 1921 1Os-he wanted tobe accurate
to the shfllins-and' a bridesmaids
premises which he. was told covered 800
to 800 square. yards, and that was
valued at, ,es4s los. Those We're the
figures corrected by all sorts Of law
yers (laughter). But, he was told &c
look to the Marquis Of Butte, that he
was paying 100000 year for the
docks. Yes. the moment the Marquis
went in for honest trade he paid, but
wien He wac hhetoiS 9 ~ - S
+ he paid nothing for his land '(cheers}.
There was another case in Cardiff; that
of cathay's Park. where 60 acres, ne
believed, was sold to the CORPORATION
OF, cardin. Before It was sold its rate
able value was s26s per annum. 1t
was valued as agricultural land, and
the Marquis Of Butte had had half his
rates paid out of the. taxes Of the coun-
try as a distressed a. agrioultur'alist
Uaughter). In respect Of all that in
valuable building site he was valued at
only. E 1853 per annurp. and half Of that
was borne. by the taxes. He sold it to
the Cardiff Corporation, at what do
you think? E 1so,ooo, at per cent per
annum. That would be e $500 at least,