ANGLOPHOBIA.
A DANGER.
lord cromer foresees a result of protection; WHAT IS MR. BALFOUR'S CREED? OLD AGE PENSIONS. BT rELEORAPH-rRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. (Rcc. Nov. 22, 10 p.m.) London, November 22. Lord Goorgo Hamilton presided at a dinner given by tho Unionist Freo Trado Club to Lord Cromer, who, somo little time ago, resigned tho position of Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt, on the ground of illhealth.
In the oourso of a speech Lord George Hamilton said ho was glad that wiser counsels had prevailed at tho gathering of Unionist leaders and delegates at Birmingham, and that court-martial exclusions wero to bo discontinued. This showed that the party was returning to sanity. It was now clear that Mr. Balfour was not a Protectionist ; he adhered to. Frco Trado in tho abstract. • i
Lord Cromer said that ono result of any revisal whatever of the policy under which Britain for so many years had grown and prospered would bo to quicken into life whatever moro or less dormant' Anglophobia 1 existed throughout tho world. Lord Cromor continued: " Once the passions which protec- . tion or preference must evoke are let loose, our present naval establishments will be Insufficient to maintain the security of our vast possessions. " One of the main reasons we are enabled to do good work in Egypt, and why Europe aoquiesces In tho continuance of this worh, Is the rigid application to Egypt of the principles of Free Trado, "Once let us depart from theso principles, and our occupation of Egypt will bo viewed In a very different light." Lord Cromer; in discussing social problems, drew a distinction between reasonable State aid and objectionable State Socialism. He expressed the hopo that tho Government would doviso an old age pensions scheme based mainly on individual effort, with a moderate amount of Stnto aid.
Lord George Hamilton, formerly Recrotary for India, was one of the Free Trade Ministers whp left Mr. Balfour's Cabinet owing to Mr Chamberlain's tariff proposals. Tho reference to discontinuance of "court-martial exclusions" is probably based on Mr. Balfour's statement that the imits of party loyalty cannot bo stated in "black and whiter
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 5
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