THE MERCENARY SPIRIT.
(Received 8.45 a.m.)
LONDON, July 21
Sir Frederick Young, vice-presidertf of the Royal Colonial Institute, in a lil'er published in the "Times," has expre i. d disappointment with the Duke of Devonshire's speech, and says that the Motherland and the colonies should follow a mutually patriotic policy, and not exhibit a bargaining and huckstering spirit.
LONDON, July 21. Some leading Unionists are promoting a fiscal compromise on the basis of conGitional retaliation in the event of outside Powers threatening the colonies for giving preference to the Mother Country. '! hey suggest a corn duty of 2/.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 5
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