ANOTHER COMPARISON.
Mr Wyndham, speaking- at Edinburgh, -said if the proportion" were the aane now as in 1861, there would be nearly two millions more employed in thirteen particular trades, or compared with 1881, th«y» would be 890,000 more.- He believed the workers would insist on volume and security of employment instead of invisible export* <UM commercial repoae. Tliey would do brisker business with .the colonies, and ao tend to the unity of the Empire, rather than exist on the > >ra_*raaoe of other countries. Tho resumption of fiscal negotiations would be' a weapon to protect their colonial' brethren from reprisals, and a sign that we meant to be mooter- of our own house.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11753, 30 November 1903, Page 8
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113ANOTHER COMPARISON. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11753, 30 November 1903, Page 8
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