TARIFF ISSUE.
EVOLUTION OF LIBERAL OPINION. RETALIATION POSSIBLE. FRENCH AND AMERICAN^TARIFFS. (11l TKLECIUAI'H—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COI'YIIICJIIT.) London, March 4 Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at a banquet given by tho Associated Chambers oi Commerce, said revision of the French tarifi was a matter of the gravest concern to tho trading community. The Board of Trade was fully prepared to take steps to safeguard the interests of tho country. Amorica's tariii revisions, he added, 'appeared to bo likely to partako of tho nature of a reduction of duties. Dealing with tariffs generally, Mr. Churchill repeated the substance of a declaration made in a recent speech, to tho effect that retaliation, as an occasional weapon, may possibly be used. Hβ continued :— "Whilo I am responsible for tho Board of Trado, no utterance of mino shall tie tho hands of tho country in tho taking of any stops for the permanent advantago of trade."
Mr. Andrew Bonar .Law, Conservative member for the Dulwich Division of Camberwell, said that Mr. Churchill's speech rot long ago would have been absolutely impossible from a Liberal. It was a refreshing contrast to the old dogma, that the only way to fight hostilo tariffs was by froo imports.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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203TARIFF ISSUE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 5
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