The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
LIBERALS PLAN
 THEIR CAMP PAIGN
Have Safe Majority in the Eng
 fish Parliament
PEOPLE ARE HOPEFUL
Piurnl Voting May He Abolished By the Incoming Parliament. Four \ Year-old Boy
 Votes ssi4

London, January 7.-tSpec1al. )--Iht election being over and the liberai' having been assured of numerica strength in parliament sufficient tt carry out pretty nearly any programme they may decide upon, lne people may depend upon securing any reform with in reasonable bounds which they may ask for. Lest there might be an, doubt on the subject MT. Churchill one of the liberal leaders has come ou' with an emphatic declaration as to the programme of the party. Speaking al Parkstone recently he said in the course of an address which was applauded en- Enthusiastically: s ws
 After the veto has gone 1t is my hope and belief that the new parlia- ment may come togetner as no parlia- ment has yet done in a whole-hearted effort to solve the great problems which stare us in the face and to consolidate and fortify the strength, the peace, and the glory of our common country. After all, deep and wide as are our party dif- ferences, strong as are the contrasts of feeling and conviction, of temperament and interest, which mark and diversity our political life. the overwhelming ma jority of British men and women stand true and clear for peace abroad Tor law and order at home, for the recon ciliation of races within the kingdom, for the unity and consolidation of the Empire for supreme and unchal- lengeable navy, for a better, fairer and more scientific organization of the so- cial life of the people, for the due cor rection of the abuses of wealth and monopoly, for religious equality, and for industrial progress. We stand TOT all that, and have hopes that the new house of commons may find in great schemes of national insurance, in the reform of the poor law, in the develop ment of national resources, in the train ing of our youth, In relieving the nm perial parliament from congestion by well-considered plans of devolution, In the work of reconciling the two islands by giving Ireland parliament for the mans cement of purely 1r1sn affairs, in prison reform, even in the reform Of our electoral laws and the redistribd- ton of constituencies-it Is my hope that the new house may find in all these immense and necessary labors great deal more common groun- than Is now apparent.
 T think that it is the wish of every one of us that the coronation or the King should display to all the world, not only the abiding loyalty of the Bri:- ish empire to the institution of mon archy, and its attachment to the per son of the sovereign, but should also make manifest the deep and fundamen- tai unities which undel-ie the clamor- ous conflicts of British national life, that there should be a season of re- joicing and of amity of concord and good feeling in Winch ..beral and con- servauve, churchman and non conform ist shS.l bear their 5. part, In which W elshmen and Scotsmen shall be con spicuous,, and form which Ireland shall not be excluded"
 Addressing an assemblage at Dundee he said: They have tried conclusions with us once too often This time they are knocked clean out o. the ring. They have got to make up their minds to the llperal solution of the great problems of the day; abolition of the veto of the house of lords; uIsesta Jlishment of the Welsh church: maintenance of free trade grant of se.l-government for Ire land, and abolition of plural voting.
 It is more than probable that the privilege of plural young will be abol- lshed by the new parliament. Under the system it is possible for q man To legally vote four or i've times
 How necessary 1t is for the govern ment to abolish plural voting, which operates so unfairly against liberals, IS shown by the results of the elections Tn the county constituencies. An analysis of the polls in these divisions proves that but for the plural voters the tories not only would not have gained a siu gle seat, but would have lost several In the five seats won by them. and m Is of the 25 held on the pollings which took place on December I and &, the plural voters outnumbered the ma jorities, enormously in many cases, IS the following statement clearly indi- rates: