A CRITICAL COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 7

A CRITICAL COMMENT

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SURPRISED.

LONDON, 21st February. The Manchester Guardian says : "The Committee's ■ recommendations concern Britain more than the Dominions. 'We should not have thought it credible that any British. Government would endeavour to transform traditional practice before the nation had assented. It would have been better had the Committee pursued its enquiries and given reasons for its conclusions. The Committee's obscure recommendations mean a revolution, involv ing- Great Britain. We must have Protection instead of Freetrade within the Empire and preference instead of open markets for the Allies, 1 a double tariff for neutrals, and a triple- tariff for the enemy, who is not even 'mentioned. ■ The Committee, suggests—and then seems to have been ashamed of its suggestion —• that these proposals are a reward to the Dominions for their war service.' 1 But our Allies have done something—even Britain has made a war contribution — and they should not be sacrificed." The Guardian believes that the policy of taking up the Imperial. cause would make the chances of suffering among the British workers even more perilous after the war than they were before it.