SELF-IMPOSED TRAMMELS.
MR. BALFOUR ASD THE FISCAL QUESTION. UNIONIST PARTY S MAIN PLANK. [PKKS9 ASSOCIATION.! LONDON, 2nd February. Mr. Balfour, in tho courso of a speech at Hull, said ho was not awaro of any need for issuing monthly bulletins dofining his fiscal views. These wero unchanged, but ho was increasingly convinced that Britain had suffered greatly through self-imposed trammels. Mr. Balfour expressed a desire to sco a closed commercial union between tho Motherland and tho colonies. The party in power was blamable for not saying", a" singlo thing publicly to indicate that it sympathised with the means tho self-governing colonies pro- | posod for ensuring the unification and solidification of the Empire. Fiscal reform was still the main constructive plank of the Unionist policy. "But if," Mr. Balfour concluded, "we becomo a party with only one idea we shall fail tojearry that or any other reform."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1907, Page 7
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