Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-30
ENGLISH CAMPAIGN
GROWING Bitter.
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BaIfour Calls Government Lot of
Puppets Dancing to John
Redmond's Music.
FAvoRs THE REFERENDUM
Is Perfectly Willing 10 submit Cues
zion of Tariff Reform
TO II.

London. Nov. 29.-Politicians of all
parties are stralning every nerve 10
crowd into few DAYS work that III
ordinary elections is spread over week;
or months. Nearly all the heavy
guns were in acton tonight Arthur j.
Balfour, leader OF the opposition IN
the house of commons, before meet.
ing in Albert hall. where he warmly
supported the referendum, dc'cii pea
the government AS puppets, dancing 10
the tune of John Redmond anu ms
American payniastcrs
Tho issues are narrowing down daily.
The Conservatives MAKE inuch OF tho
menace of home rule They proclaim
that the plan of the Liberals tor the
reform of the house of lords means
single chamber government, ana put
TO the front their new policy OF re-
ferendu,n. There Is ~rcat fcrvor among
tn. Liberals. a feature being the sud
den reforming zeal of the present lords.
who. claim that Lansdowne's refcren-
dun would be invoked only for
Liberal bills dlstasteful to the peers,
Moreover, they estimate the cost OF
each appeal to the people at Slo,oQo,-
900
An Interesting tactional cleavage mas
occurred in Bulfour's party over tariih
reform. The Spectator, the spokeSma:s
of the Unionist free traders. has pro-
posed that the tariff reformcrs pledge
themselves 10 submit the question to
referendum II the party wins. 1t not
being n leading Issue of the CAM
paign.
Mr.. Balfour pronounced strongly IN
favor of the referendum as the best
method of settling deadlocks between
~ ali
reform OF the house of lords. and SAID
1t could be carried into effect before
the house of lords was reformed. This.
he declared to be Lansdowne's plan.
The cost of referendum. he said.
would be nearer sl,0o0.00o than
Liberal estimates of s10.000.000.
FANORS REFERENDUM.
Some people seem to think" con-
tinued the opposition leader that
asking whether would submit tariff
reform to referendum would put me
in hole. / frankly say that tariff
reform would be u great change. This
election cannot be described as taxi
ing place on tariff reform SIMPLY. and
| have not the least objection to sub
mittin~ tariff reforms to Il referendum
1t seems to me that our opponents
should respond with the generosity
OF honorable combatants and say We
agree that home rule shall be subject
to n referendum too
Mr. Balfour denied that the veto
conference had been broken up by tho
unyielding attitude of the lords. He
said that the government was
threatening revolution. based on the
wants OF one particular section. who
boosted thut they had not yielded an
inch from the position of Parncll. Ho
concluded by declaring the cabinet was
governed by Its noisiest members, who
were governed by John Redmond, who
was governed by Patrick Ford.
The most ardent tariff rcformers. led
by the Morning Post, contend that
II is the foremost principle of the
party.
The Unionist party breaks into
fragments" rsays the Post. IF q
unionist victory does not mean tariff
reform"
Mr.. Balfour tonight announced his
Willingness to leave 1t to n roferen-
DUN. In the meantime the leaders are
making every appeal to the indepen-
dent vote. believing that 1t controls
the issue
The irish Unionists sent message
of defiance to home rulers to Mr.. Bal
fours meeting and .deputations
from the Non-Conformlst UnionIst as
socintion of England and 600 minis
tiers of non-Episcopal churches in Ire
land have addressed Mr. Balfonr In
opposition to yhome rule The reading
OF the message from the Irish
unionists ut Albert hall caused mucE
enthusiasm. 'In all solcmnity." said
the message. I'VE now declare that
homo rule will bring ireland not paace
but the sword. If an Irish parliament
Is set up the Unionis,s''or thc south,
allied with the men"of Ulster. will not
acknowledge It's authority. They will
neither obey its DEGREES nor pay its
taxes
DON'T TRUST PUPILS.
Don't trust the pupils who are