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Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1903, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] THE IMPERIAL FISCAL ISSUE.

MR. HERBERT GLADSTONE DRAWS A COMPARISON. [r-RESS ASSOCIATION".! LONDON, 23rd December. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, speaking at, Birkonhead, said tariif reformers were sponding money liko water. Ho would like to know whence the money camo, under what conditions it was given, what tho donors' expectations wero. He did not want any Tammany business in English public life. Tariff reformers claimed that Mr. Chamberlain was a, business num. Mr. Hooley was also a man of business, but his miscalculations paled before Mr. Chamberlain's over the war in South Afrira. The country wo^ild not accept tho present nostrums. The whole question rested on My. Chamberlain's shoulders ; without him tho party was like an engine with its boiler burst. Liberals wero going, to fight the battle of froo trade, which made the country, and they would fight to a finish. The Liverpool branch of the- Unionist Free Food League has condemned tariff taxation as protection. Mr. A. Taylor and Mr. C. M'Arthur, M.P.'s, upheld a continued policy of free trade. Thoy strongly condemned Mr. Chamberlain. The Congress of Liberal Unionists of north-eastern counties and Lancashire voted overwhelmingly in favour of Mr. Chamberlain. VIEWS OF TARIFF REFORMERS. SIR * EDWAR*D~"CLARKE AT . , MANCHESTER. (Received December 24, 8.46 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd December. Mr. Alfred Mosely (who conducted the party of English industrial delegates to America), ill a ldlter to Tho Times, says that .no business men- with whom he liad conversed while in America, except Mr. Carnegie, regarded British tariff reform as impracticable. They wero surprised that it had not been attempted before. American political economists agree that it is the only course open. Sir Edward Clarke, formerly SolicitorGeneral, speaking at Manchester, emphasized the important mission of the Tariff Commission, which could only deal with Mr. Balfour's proposals. Other Imperial questions iffecting th« rotations between the Motherland and the colonies must, he declared, wait until wo had ro-establiahed our fiscal system upon a different basis. At present, said Sir Charles, the Mother Country had no preference to offer the colonies. He hopt'd there would bo an opportunity of dealing with colonial questions without awaiting a decision in regard to tariffs, in order to show our colonial brethren the reality during a time of trial of the fellowship of the Imperial brotherhood. The Motherland, should not be technical or niggardly in dealing with colonial wishes, but must prove tliat she understands the value of her great colonial empire. OUT OF THE FOLD. (Received December 24, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd December. The Daily Telegraph etatea tliat next session the Government Whip will net communicate Vith Mr. Winston Churchill (member for Oldham), Major Ernest Beckett (Whitby), Mi. T. G. Howie* (King's Lynn), and Mr. T. W. Ruisell (South Tyrone). [Mr. Churchill has expressed himself a convinced Freetrader. Presumably tho other members named aro opposed •to both tho Government policy and Mr. Chamberlain's propaganda.]