NO REMOTE IDEAL. FROM ARDENT HOPE TO PRACTICAL REALITY.
(Received November 21, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 20th November. Mr. Balfour, in the course of his speech at Cardiff, declared : "Fiscal reform is no remote ideal, but all movement of thought, all political forces, all tho trend of economic speculation, are alike driving us to a great change in our fiscal system." The time was not far distant — it was, indeed, within the vision of all — when the great policy he advocated would be turned from ardent hope into practical reality, knitting closer the Imperial bonds, steadying the whole industrial machine, mitigating unemployment, and safeguarding great interests against the combination of increasing industrial efficiency, backed by the unscrupulous use of hostile tariffs by every commercial country in the world. A mor mentous change 'was approaching. When) ere long, the Unionists would be recalled to power, they would carry out a constructive policy giving effect to these principles. Mr. Balfour's remarks were greeted with prolonged cheers.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 122, 21 November 1908, Page 5
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163NO REMOTE IDEAL. FROM ARDENT HOPE TO PRACTICAL REALITY. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 122, 21 November 1908, Page 5
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