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DILUTION AND PARALYSIS.”

Addressing a wasting of the Yorks Libern Federation ag Leods on June 19th, Mr. Asquith said :

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inevitable result of the artiñcial condi tions of the Election, of last December is over, but the vast majority, I have every reason to think, of the "runk and file of our party throughout the country now see, what I am afraid many" of them. although song of us did our best enlighten them, did not see then, that coalition is only another world for dilu- tion and paralysis. (Hear, hear. They realise, as 1. hope and believe that you all realise that as a party we must recover dur, freedom, and that until that is done the position of Liberals in Parliament, or. at any rate. I am afraid I must say, the majority of Liberals in Parliament, is little better than that of hewers of wood. and drawers of water for an all-powerfal Tory majority. Let as we onlookers in the Parliamentary scene, and I am inggeli for the first time in many years in that position laughter) let us not be stint- ing in var acknowledgment of the grati tude we owe to my right hon. friend, Sir Donald Maclean--(clders) and his sinall bup gallant bani, who under most dispirit. ing conditions have hown, as illustrious statesmen like Mr. Fox and Six Robert Feel showed in the past. the effective use that can be made in the House of an op position small in number and keen in spirit and united in purpose. (Cheers.)

FUTURE OF LIBERAL PARTY.

In our domestic situation there is ař Tile Bold which appears to me to call hot only for the vigilance but for the or ganised activity and effort of an awaken. cd Liberal party I am quite aware-- evidence reaches me from different quar ters-that some among the more ardent of our younger spirits are tempted to doff their old uniform and to migrate to the Labour camp- The Labour party and ourselves bave many aims in common, and in not a few the controveries, actual o imminent. of the immediate future, we should, I am certain, sad in them, as they would hod in us, associates, and more than associates, allies. But I desire to say with the utmost clearness and em- phasis, that I regard the maintenance,. with its sepafite identity and its separate traditions, of the Liberal party as of the Arst importance to the State. We are uol, and we never have been, a party with ironclad dogmas or exclusive tests. We have always been ready, and I hope we always shall be, to profit by the teaching of experience, both international and domestic, in this, which is an ever-chang- lag and ever-developing world. But there are two great covering principles or nims of which we always have been, and 1 trust always shall be, the special custodians and trustees. Never was either of the in more need than at this moment of jealous and watchful guardianship What are they In the first place, freedom (eheers not merely negative bug positive freedom, freedom" "from artiãcial straints, but freedoui also to make the most and best, both of social and indus- trial life. We want Freedom not only of Espeech and writing, but freedom, complete freedom, of trade (cheers freedom from compulsory service. freedom by the re- moval of all fictitious obstacles to the fullest and completes; self-development. You cannot have a better or more pertin ent illustration than the struggle to which

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we have been challenged, and which we intend to wage against the revival of pro- Lection. What is protection ?, What does it mean? It means free trade for other: people's businesses and preferential treat iment for my own. One of the reasons that we ought to welcome, and I hope do welcome, the recognition by the Paris- Conference of the practical installation of the League of Nations, is that it is the ambodiment in the internationaal sphere of this great Liberal principle.

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It is obvious that this will not be the cccasion to enter into in any detail those specific items of our political programme,

I will give you as other topic which is but there are two things-I take them only

not of equal importance, but which is at by way of sample and because of their special urgency to which I would invite any rate of very great interest. We are you to direct your special attention and all-and with increased real in effort. The first is the case of Ireland.quence of the lessons which have been Hear. hear.) I, of course, put on one taught us by the war are all urgeat: advocates social reconstruction. Tho Ride those ill-sifted stories of deliberate outrage and abuse which have recently problem presents itself from many differ been circulated, and which we know to be ent aspects None of them, perhaps, is without solid foundation in fact Quite more clamorous, more imperious in its apart from all that, the situation is of the demand upon our statesmanship than the gravest. You have only got to compare problem of housing. (Hear, bear.) It is it to-day in the mouth of June, 1919, with now generally conceded that, largely through the arrears of the past, partly, what it was a little more than a year ago also, through the exigencies of the war, when the Convention had made its report, when there seemed to be for the first time there is as an enormous deficiency to be! almost in Irish bistory-certainly for made good, which I think is not extre vagantly estimated for England and xoaddu tout jo su Wales alone at some 500.000 houses "greement on the basis of self-government. far as I know, although some six or seven You want to contrast those two situations months have passed since the armistico and see how far in little more than twelve was brought into operation, not more months we have fallen back. The fatal than a dozen houses have been erected. blunder was made-1 and many of my (Laughter.) That is net vory satisfactory friends in the House of Commons de progress. There is no asiter in which it nounced it at the time, and predicted the more important that Liberals should exact consequences which have ensued awake and bestirring themselves, both the fatal blunder was made on the morrow locally and nationally, that this dange of the report of the Convention of imous, for it is dangerous, deficiency in our posing compulsory service apon Ireland.social system should without delay be (Hear, hear) It was of no military made good.

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value. It was never enforced It never There are two propositions in regard could have been enforced. Yet it had the to social reform which I think are often effect of introducing in an atmosphere lost sight of, not, I hope, by Liberals, tut which at the moment was one of concilia the world at large. What are they? The tion and of hope, elements of discord and ret is that you should not make pro- of rancour, which the enemies. and they mises of social reform unless you can see. are many of reconciliation between the your way to finance then-(cheers)other- two countries took full advantage of, and wise you come dangerously near to the rig which paralysed all the efforts both of the of impostor. (Laughter.) My second is of a Constitutional Nationalists, and of the more general kind, though it is in the more intelligent and enlightened Unionists samo sense and, spirit, that you cannot here any form of social reconstruction of the country. “

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