TARIFF REFORM.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14512, 19 December 1912, Page 7

TARIFF REFORM.

■ ; ft—; MR BONAR LAW'S PROPOSAL. PRESS COMMENT. United Prose Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 17. "Tho Times'/ says that tho Unionist leaders must not attempt to shift tho onus of food taxation to a conference ofovorsea Ministers. If taxation is undesirable as a purely domestic reform, then it is not desirable, at all. Tho "Chronicle" says that Mr Bonar Law's suggestion is a palpable attempt to shift the odium of food ta-c_"£rom the shoulders of tho Unionists to tho Dominions. , The "Manchester Guardian" says that Mr Bonar Law's offer to Lancashire to refer the British food taxes tc tho judgment'of a body of strong oversea Protectionists is a hollow mockery Tho "Pall Mall Gazette" says the . speoch means a reversal of tho ' 'banged, - barred, and bolted door" policy, at the Dominions will bo treated as mem bers of the Imperial family. Tho "Star" says that Mr Bonar Lav is unwilling to allow tho British to do cide their food taxes, and tho colon'ict alone aro to settle Britain's fate.