Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-06
ENGLAND IN THRoEs OF MOST
IMPORTANT POLITICAL
CONTEST.
ALL AVAILABLE SPEAKERS
, PUT INTO THE FIELD
Innumerable Political Gatherings Held
in All Parts of island-Women Ex-
cIuded From Asquith's Meeting
Premier Derides Efforts Made by
Peers to Defeat Liberals.

London, Jan. 6.-Every available
prominent speaker of both parties, as
well as host of minor men, were en-
gagged last night in addressing political
meetings in various parts of the coun-
try.
Premier Asquith, at meeting at
Brighton, from which women were ex-
Guided and Chancellor Lloyd George, at
two meetings in London, made great
play at the expense of the peers ora
torical campaign. The premier thought
that if the peers could only be induced
night at the same rate as to volume
and venom the liberals might almost be
content to hold their tongues alto
gether.
The chancellor of the exchequer ex-
pressed the belief that the peers never
worked so hard in their lives. They
seemed to think that the house of
commons was an assembly of lunatics
and that the peers We're their keepers.
the valley of humiliation in order to
find work for the unemployed.
The chancellor also caused great
laughter by describing his budget as
simply a revised and enlarged edition
of Kiplings ballad, Cooks Sons,
Dukes Sons, Sons of the Belted Earl,
Pay, Pay, Pay"
Say BaIfour Is Hopeless.
Arthur ]. Balfour, leader of the OPP
position in the house of commons,
speaking at Hanwell, said that 1910
would remain in the history of the en-
pire as the year in which was fought
the first round of the struggle which
might last for years perhaps genera
| tions, and become dominant influence
upon all that they, as citizens, held
most dear. Never before had the ideals
of two great state parties been so wide
| ~ divergent.
This tone in Mr. Balfour's utter
ances on previous occasions has been
comm ented upon as an indication that
he realizes the hopelessness of union
ist victory in the coming elections.
The Marquis of Londonderry, in an
address at Belfast, declared that the
/
position position till the crack of doom
than hold office for five minutes de-
pendent upon the Irish vote.
The Rev. Robert Forman Horton,
pastor of the Lyndhurst Read church.
Hampstead, addressing political
gathering at that place, made an in
teresting contribution to the contro-
lversy. He asked what would not Ger
many or Russia give for parliament
controlled on such popular lines as the
house of commons.
Believes Curzon and Miner Lead.
He believed that the real leaders in
the present situation were not Lans-
downe and Balfour, but Curzon, Miner
and perhaps Cromer, all men trained in
governing subject races, who had re-
turned to England imbued with the
idea of Tenouncing the representative
principles CT government which they
had learned to disregard elsewhere.
The speaker then reminded his hear
ers of the curious parallel in the ov-
erthrow of the Roman empire by the
proconsuls, who returned from their
admirably administered provinces filled
with Impotence at the popular govern
ment which had appointed them. He
warned the British people that unless
they bestirred themselves history
would repeat itself.
Rothschild Speaks on Diamonds.
Lord Rothschild, speaking in Liver
pool. refuted the statement made by
Chancellor Lloyd George a few nights
ago that statistics showed that in May,
1903, while there was 80 per cent of the
population unemployed in New York
state. there was only per cent in
England. Lord Rothschild declared that
nearly 100000 emigrants went to the
United States every year and that most
of them landed at New York There
fore they must always be large num-
Der of unemployed in New York.
The best proof, he said, that the
United States had recovered from the
great financial panic was the increased
price of American securities. His own
observation had been that when the
diamond trade was brisk there was no
unemployed in America and that during
the American financial crisis the South
African companies were at their wits
end to sell diamonds.
He was informed on unimpeachable
authority that during the last six
months more diamonds were sold than
ever before in the memory of living
man and that the majority, if not all OF
them, had gone to America.
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