SUNDRY OPINIONS.
[By. Tkleobafh. — Copxbiqht.] Received 10, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, December 9. Mr Haldane, speaking at Oxford, said nobody vouW deny that a large number of manufacturers were hit by foreign tariffs. The public desired to know what Mr Chamberlain's plan was. Personally, he had the gravest doubt of the possibility of binding the Empire together on a fiscal basis at all. Moreover, if they excluded imports and exclude corresponding exports it rested with Mr Chamberlain to prove that the proposals would not make the nation poorer, i
Richard Cavendish, member for Lonsdale, speaking at Ulverstone, declared: "I entirely oppose Mr Chamberlain's proposals. I agree to retaliation in specific cases of dumping, but fear that the next election' will not be fought on Mr Balfour's policy." Lord James, "of Heresford, addressing a Unionist meeting at Salisbury, said he fully believed in the doctrine ot free trade.
Mr Beckett, member for Whitby, said that protection was a gigantic game of grab, wherein whoever won the unfortunate consumer lost.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7854, 10 December 1903, Page 3
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