THE FISCAL QUESTION

Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 3054, 30 June 1903, Page 3

THE FISCAL QUESTION

(Per United Press Association— C'opy right.) , Rec;-.\ed .June 2'-', 1. ip_i£i. i.ondon. .June "i vvii'.c tiiou><u:d persons attended a (I'-rvionsirat .on at Kdinburgh. which a resolution was earned that the tax ir.g oi iood and raw materu'S impoverish the peopn>, (iimimsh tiie - r,i:!e. ;qi<l endanger the Empire's for-ri-m relations. Sir lienry Campbeii-Uannerman said hat the entire scheme put lorward by "dr Chamberlain would collapse unless iood were taxed, they should bring its advocates to recognise the fact and let the people make their choice. Mr si_;uith, at a meeting at Boston, said: "Let us by all means always Keep our niiiuls open tor new facts and new arrangements, witisont revealing political childhood and beginning over again the alphabet and the multiplication table." ,He added that the reckless launching oi Mr Chamberlain's scheme was a most s?r iotis blow at the Empire's uiii%y, brin King fiscally and politically, instead of peace, a sword , Sir William Harcourt, speaking at | Malwood, declared that the secret of !Mr Chamberlain's political temperaj inert was apparently the spirit of retaliation. It was risky to retaliate, nut on G c many alone while pretending it wa> no burden on the people least able to bear iL ' Rt-eolvccl Jatje 80, 1.10 a.rn. London. June 29. Mr Chamberlain in his latest speech iaciflefitiliy |tru'J9 it clear that tha and el?ct3C3 thoiasslves woti'cl hsi'Bsittor have to dscltira whe f .btir the revenue availsfcls under his scheme ghaold be applied u'timatetv to olflpensions or to imraadiata rec!u?tion3 in the duty on tea, sugar or tobacco. Old ape pensions werg no essential feature in a reform ot ths fis;cl policy. Ssva'al nawsoapjrs recommend tha public to await the reanlt of the economic enquiry and the presentation of a precise and intelligible sebemo. Mr Chamberlain, in a letter thanking tbo 'Last Birmingham Canwrva:ivi3 fvos a eomplimeatary rasolutioa, state;! that he would be fcbe last man to cromota thi3 diacassiot! if he supposed his schema would in any cireumatanees injura the misses of fcba population.