SPEECH BY JOHN BURNS.
"A STALKING HORSE."
LONDON, November 27. Mr John Burns, M.P., speaking at Sltrewsbury, said Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain were using fiscal reform as a stalking horse to cover the blunders of the war. It was a monstrous untruth to allege that Great Britain was the dust-heap of the world, and Mr Chamberlain, fearing the war would cause a depression and a reduction in Wages, attributed these ills to free trade.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11753, 30 November 1903, Page 8
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