TARIFF REFORM QUESTION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8918, 4 November 1905, Page 5

TARIFF REFORM QUESTION

A CANADIAN MANIFESTO.

[press association.] (Received November 353 5 10.42 p.m.)

OTTAWA, November 3.

A manifesto, signed by over 1500 trade unionists, including officials in favor of Mr Chamberlain's tarin reforms, has been sent to the President of the Dominion Trades Labor Congress.

MR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S VIEWS.

(Received November 3, 10.42 p.m.) LONDON, November 3.

The Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain (Chancellor of the Exchequer), speaking at Stirchley, declared that neither Mr Balfour nor the Government wished to place the fiscal question on a secondary place at the elections, for they regarded it as the greatest issue to be submitted. Personally, he could conceive of very considerable preference being given to the colonies on wines, spirits, meat, dairy produce, market garden produce, and other articles than corn, but he valued a closer union so highly that he was willing to give even a small tax on corn.