BRITAIN’S FISCAL POLICY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 4

BRITAIN’S FISCAL POLICY

SPEECH BY 1.01! D CUJiZON.

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.] • LONDON,- April 10. Lord Cvr;;on, presiding fd a Unionist lmiSi i xxting at Basingstoke, remarked that it was a decade since ho addixiSiri any political gathering in England. Mr Balfouris fiscal platform \va* one v-'Lxi eon all sections of tlioi Unknist party could well units and - whereon tlie» Ultimate reunion, borides biting pi bsibli?., was oe-rtain. He did net x-nvy either the* commonsdnst 1 or political f oß*i "sight of the man who declared ’ tlmt- no change, in the fiscal T poli- y wa£ xcqui*. d tor rlikely, He believed a blnuige oi somei sort - Pos* sibly it- would . th* shape the author .of the movement anticipated, and perhaps- would not fulfil all tlio ambit ioi.s> "and desires of its warmes* partisans. Hei disclaimed., sufficient vknoivlCdgei. :;to» -fenkble him to dogmatise oh 'the vniatter. (Received April 11, 8.8. a.im) LONDON, April 10. Lord Curzoii added: “Regarding India*'which-nhjjjht, conceivably suffer more frcmie/t&Latibiv tluin she could gain from•preference, it was to our interest that her intweets should not bo sacrificed in any coming change. Her lwthuoi tariff was so' useful and lucrative that, no parly in India would, consent to part with so useful a means of negotiation. It had been uuod more than bn.ee to threaten re** prisals on foivdgn nations. The* Liberal Government had events in train to disturb many things but had not shown any tendency -to upset i the? tariff in India. Such tariff must and ought' to corn©; in England the Radicals! were driving us* .thereto. If we got such a tariff for iwcuuo purposes I cannot for the- life of me sea v ;hy Wo should not got a tariff, after consultai ion with the ColonialGf*vormneints, for strengthening the> tie® of Imperial connection* - "and also iutilisei it- to improve trade and secure bettor employment for workers. Whatovtr we» do;, lot us not adopt piuscription. Wo are unabla to afford to estrange suoli men as Lord Salisbuiy’s . two sens; that would !<■ unhtdnkablti. Our ; policy should bo one of reconciliation, not reprisals.”