Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-01
BALFOUR NJECTS new ISSUE
Leader Of British Opposition Brings
Tariff to Front.
VOTING WILL BEGIN THIS WEEK
Results By saturday Might Probably
VIII Indicate Complication OF
the Next House of
Commons.


LONDON, Nov. aO-The acceptance by A.
]. Balfour, leader OF the opposition in the
House Of Commons. Of the policy OF the
referendum in the case Of tariff reform.
has given the campaign a new complex
ion. In a political address last night, Mr..
Baifour announced that In the event Of
victory IN the approaching elections he
would be willing to submit the question OF
tariff reform TO referendum.
The declaration OF the unionist Is re-
ceived with enthusiasm by the party which
thinks Il will help win votes in the north,
where the protection has not made the
same headway as elsewhere. IL also places
the extreme radicals in a quandary as
heretofore the principle OF the referendum
has been a plank In their platform.
A few ardent tariff reformers are OPP
posed to the proposition, but they PROB
ably viii accept the situation as Joseph
Chamberlain, who is encouraging his tol-
lowers through letters from the sick room
has been urging them to concentrate their
efforts on the matter OF home rule and the
constitutional questions involving the
House OF Lords, to which the contest IS
now narrowed down and over which the
parties are carrying on the hardest kind OF
fight.
elared by Saturday night, should provide
a fair indication Of the outcome
At least lOO members, OF whom sixty are
unionists, will be elected without contest,
saturday will see polling for forty i've
seats, so far as now arranged. OF these,
twenty-five are held by liberals Among
them are the Manchester constituency,
which the unionists are making every ef-
tort to capture.
In ireland, where the voting will take
place later, the nationalists are renominat-
! ing the present members. shane Leslie,
nationalist, 10 again eontesting London
derry CITY, which was lost 10 the union
lists by q few votes in January. The
o'Brienites are receiving the financial sup
| port OF the moderates, who consider John
| Redmonds plans impossible, and also are
/ disguised with the arrangements threats OF
violence and boodshed II the existing gov
eminent for Ireland is changed. They have
more candidates than in the last elections.
Donald Macmaster, unionist is given d
walkover in Chertsey division OF Surrey.
Sensational Speech by ROnebery.
! MANCHESTER, England Nov. 90.--Lord
| RoseDery jumped the barrier heretofore
separating him from the tories at a meet
ing which he had been invited to address
along non-partisan lines.
Although disclaiming all political bias he
roundly denounced his former liberal al
lies who, he declared, were harassing the
land, constantly encroach!ng upon and pre-
juoiclng the personal liberties Of The coun-
try in way to which their ancestors
would never have submitted.
Nothing but nation Of slaves, declared
the former premier. would submit to Irish
dictation subsidized by foreign gold.
Loud cries OF twaddle, rot. bosh, greeted
this outburst, but Rosebery continued. ask.
ing what the effect would have been II
foreign gold had been taken into the United
States. why" he said, the people who
did II would be irretrievably damned"
The liberties Of the people were further
\ endangered the speaker said, by the gov
ernments proposal for the single chamber
Of government. Behind the government
was visible the giant spectre O.
socialism waiting until the barrier
Of the second chamber was out Of tn,
way. Under the proposed veto bill moth
ing would prevent the government from
abOlishing the House OF Lords without in
reference from any quarter whatever
Continuing Lord Rosebery said tina
great stress and care had been exercised
by the United States TO safeguard tn,
American constitution.
without any doubt" he said. 'th,
United States is the greatest democracy o
the world. Do YOU suppose the United
States would put a lot or title Of the
constitution to the hazard OF a snap cleo
tion7"