The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-03
Proposition to Submit Matt ter to Referendum Is Re-
 jGCtGd By Leaders
UN|ONISTS SEE VICTORY
 IN COMING ELECTIONS
BnIfour Is Hailed as Hero for His Courage in Adopting Tariff Reform as the Keynote of
 His Campaign

London. December 2.-The few days
 of discussion in the general election campaign leaves 1t clear that the lib-
 erals as party will have none of a referendum on tariff reform. All the l liberal leaders, from Premier Asquith
 and the lord president of the council.
 Morley Down, In their public speeches since the pronouncement of A. j. Bal
 four, the opposition leader, of his will l ,ingness to leave tariff reform to !
 referendum, have frankly deprecated | the referendum as being unsuited to | Great Britain and as tending to de- stroy the responsibility of representa- | tive institutions. Meantime. however, further familiarity with the idea had had the effect of uniting the whole unionist party and press in it's favor and MT. Balfours age in adopting it Is hailed now as having secured for his party an excellent prospect of vic- l tory at the elections.
 | It Is curious fact that all the time of the rupture of the recent veto con
 ference on inspired statement in the | Times, asserted that both sides to the | conference had rejected the idea of | | referendum. If that be the case. MT. | Balfour's decision must have been an I after thought and 1t is asserted in well l informed quarters tonight that he first | consulted Joseph Chamberlain and ob- 1 tained his acquiescence before proceed | Ing temporarily to shelve tariff reform | by urging recourse to the referendum l Campaigning was again in full blast | tonight. MT. Balfour said in the course | of speech at Grisbury that no Irish
 man would thank the people for an in- dependent Irish parliament unless 1t
 were accompanied by a British sub sidy.9
 Sir Edward Grey the foreign min
 ister. said in a speech at Berwick;
 Revolution Necessary
 "The great measure of revolution is necessary to save the house of com
 mons from perishing by the congestion 1 or business and to save it's reputation
 as an imperial authority. There is
 nothing in John Redmond's home rule proposals which is not in full force in
 the Canadian provinces"
 MT. Birrel, chief secretary for Ireland. l cr'ticising the referendum in a speech at 1 Bristol, said it would have 10 be accom-
 ranied by universal suffrage.
 1 There were other questions, MT BfrreiI l said, besides the tariff and home srue | Were the tories, he asked prepared to
 submit to a referendum the questions of 1 navy and army expenditure, conscription. capital punishment. the standardization | of railways and the budget?
 Among the amusing episodes of the | campaign was one tonight at Ipswisch
 where David Lloyd George, chancellor of
 the exchequer, repudiated the assertion of the unionists that he sold his estate in Sussex for s150,000 and invested the
 proceeds in American securities.
 John Burns, president of the local gov ernment, in address at Finsbury, ex- | "a is a cunning old free-trader at hearty The nucleus of the new house of com
 mons was formed today by the unopposed
 nomination and consequent return of Il
 unionists and four radicals. All were members of the last house, SO there has
 been no transfer of seats from one party l to the other
 New Members Elected | The unionists elected include Joseph Chamberlain. Birmingham. A. J. Balfour. 1 city of London; George Wyndham. Do- yer, and J. S. HarmoodB Banner. Liver
 pool, while Thomas Burt. long the repre-
 sentative of the miners in Morpeth comes l back on the liberal side.
 | A. A. Haworth had an unexpected
 walkover in South Manchester the union | st candidate. P. T. Glazebrook, turning
 up six minutes after the time for filing nominations had expired. Gazebrook ex- l plained he had thought the hours for fll- I
 but his protest was disallowed and Ha- worth was declared elected.
 1 Tomorrow will see 70 polls. The con l stituences are so scattered throughout the United Kingdom that the resuleA | should be fair index of the feeling os
 the country. Thirty-six of these seate l formerly were held by liberals 26 by
 unionists and eight by laborites. In many | cases the majorities were so small that
 the verdict of January last may easily be | reversed.
 | Political prophets are at sea as the | elections are being held on the old reg | ister and there have been so many re- movals since spring that the canvassers | have been unable to trace many thou
 sands of voters on record. Consequently
 the vote probably will be smaller than I heretofore.
 One unionist forecast is a net gain | of 30 seats and unionists optmists sec l the possibility of an anti-government l landslide However. the confidence of | the liberals In a return to power with
 an undimtnished coalition majority is unshaken.
 Funds for Irish Cause l Poston, December 2-On the eve of in dependent pollings tomorrow in the Brit | ish elections. the United Irish League of America, through it's treasurer. Thomas
 B. Fftzpatrick of this city, forwarded to-
 day to the Irish national party a remit 1 tance of s10,oO0 This makes total sent
 during the last six weeks of s6o,Ooo of the | American dollars which have caused adverse criticism by section of the Brit | ish press.
 The national treasurer yesterday re-
 ceived from the friends of Ireland in I Chicago, s4200; from Toronto, s2215; from
 New Orleans. s1SO0; from San Francisco. | s55 in addition to contribution of 5000 l 10 days ago; from Seattle. Wash, s2625: from Toledo. O., s70O; from Mobile, s60o.
 and from Birmingham, Ala. s1306
 Photographic advices from Vancouver, B O.; Pueblo, Col; Charleston. S. C.,
 and Halifax, N. S., indicate that the Irish spirit in each place has been l aroused by the generosity of the attacks | made by the British tory press and 1 sin nsner1 on those In this cnlnfru and