Federation For England.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 13, 1912:
Churchill Outlines Plan to Break Country Up Into Provinces.
    DUNDEE, Sept. 12.— In the course of a speech at the suburb of Lochee to-day First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill outlined a system of federation for Great Britain.
    He said that England alone was too large for a single Parliament, which would be as strong as the imperial Parliament, and the conflict of opinion would be disastrous. He suggested that England should be broken up into provinces, such as Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands, and London, and pointed out that the United States conducted its business through a larger number of Parliaments in proportion to population than if there were ten or twelve Parliaments in the United Kingdom.
    The British Government, said the First Lord, intended Irish home rule to be the forerunner of a genuine system of self-government in all four countries of the kingdom.
    Suffragettes did their best to break up the meeting. After many persons had been ejected, Mr. Churchill said that the political status of women would not be won "by such uncivilized antics as have just been witnessed."