TARIFF REFORM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7

TARIFF REFORM.

LOBD AYEUjm CONFIRMS REVENUE POSSIBILITIES. BUT CONDEMNS PROPOSED DUTJES. IU» Tolograph-I'roi," Amuclnllon-.CuDj'rlKlUl (Rec. December 14, 11.55 p.m.) Lonuon, December 11. In reply to a correspondent, Lord Avobury (Unionist Poor, banker, and scientist, of Freoirade leanings) discusses tho tariff »nd preference proposals that " woro outlined in the Uinninghain "Post" as an alternative to the fludgot, and which, Mr. Austen Chamberlain says, constitute in principle his own views. Lord Ayebury says that the "Post's" proposals are very undesirable, but are not irapracticable. They would bo n retrograde step, as they revert to the system that was abondoned by Sir Robt. and Jlr. Gladstone. On tb,o report of a House of Commons Committee in 1830, that system nas found to bo expensive, vexatious, and dilatory, involving deJays )ihjoh wero in some cases moie injurious to pommerce than tho duties themselves." Lord Avebury states that the "Post's" proposals would probably produce enough to prowde all expenditure, including old ago pensions, Jiitherto sanctioned, though they would bo novtse, mean? of doing so. "THE SLAMMEQ DOOR." A LETTER FHOII MK. CHAMBERLAIN. London, December 13. Mr. Joseph Cberoberjajp, in a letter to the Manchester and Salford electors, urging tariff reform, says: "J hope shall no longer slam tho door in the colonies' face, believing that I fiscal reform will bring our kinsmen across the i pater closer, and that they, at all events, will ))o quite ready for the chauje " I ,S)r John /furney, a LjberaJ leader m Nottmg- , haju, has joined tho Tariff Reform party