TARIFF REFORM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 99, 20 January 1908, Page 7

TARIFF REFORM.

r— s——— A PLEA FOR UNITY. MR, BALFOUR ADMONISHES EXTREME ' SECTIONS; A PROPHECY OF POWER. or TEI.EOnA.rIt—I'IfESS 4Sr.OCIATION—COrVRIGJIT, (lteo. Jan. 19, 4.23 p,m.) . London, January 18. Mr. Half our, Leader of tho Opposition, speaking at a great. Unionist demonstration «t Glasgow, admitted ; tho difficulty of pro-' blcms that aro ahead, but said tho dangers of fiscal roform aro far less tlian thoso associated with social reform. Both these reforms were difficult, said Mr. Balfour, and both woro necessary, but, if tho Unionists aspired to aehicvo these reforms, two small though not unimportant extreme wings, who found it difficult to work with the vast solid main body of Unionists, must sink thojr diffcroiipes. and arrange to' co-operato, Mr. Balfour said ho was convinced-that tho great bulk of tho Unionist party favoured a ir.oderato and resolute polioy of fiscal reform. If mutual concessions between sections enubled them to adopt an efFectivo common action, tho country would reject thp most reckloss Government that over, held office, and would call to power men with a constitutional and Imperial policy. MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S. VIEWS. COSTLY CO-OPERATION. London, January 17. Mr. Austen Chamberlain (formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer), in a speech at Dudley, declared that tho pias.s of jUnioriists Wore united in support of Mr. Balfour's fiscal reform. Whilo they did not desire to' ostraciso anybody, they could not abandon tljolr policy in order to securo tho corporation of Lgrd Cromer and others, • however ominont they might bo. A LIBERAL OPINION. " NOT A PEDANTIC FREE TRADER," London, January 17. Tho Right Hon. Sydnoy Buxton, Postmas-tcr-Goneral, speaking at Edinburgh, said ho was not a pcdantic Free Trader, and, within the limits of controversy, there wore matters whereon all were agreed. Ho eulogised tho Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George's Merchant Shipping Aotj placing foroign ships entering British ports under tho satno conditions as ; British ships. .Hi also praised the 'Patonts Act. Ho would, ho said, certainly givP no preferonco in trade to the foroigner.'