THE FISCAL DEBATE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 5

THE FISCAL DEBATE

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

[press association.] LONDON May 22 The tariff debate was resumed in th. j . House of Lords. Lord Avobury stated that if all the «!6t of the- world was protectionist, England, would still be to remain freetrade. Lord St. Aldwyn disagreed with thcthoroughtjoinEr partisans o£ either side. He declared something joist be done to improiveahe relations with the colon:** The. feeling in favor of preference was* growing Loth in the eekniea and the MothurlaDoV. Ho continued that the Government could in no -wia* ne^lejl the movement He would not s-brin-c from departing from strict free trade to obtain, if possible, closer relations wiih the colonies The G^vernraonc -was blameable f,or not offering at pb.c lusi'lmperial .Conference to subsidise a fast pcej&n 'service in retvrn f or )<nrwing duties, on British goods, such lowering to e*tejja ono*0 no* to,extend- to may lar goods, from ri>4 countries. U»^ had b^i^MCorclance wiA ft^e trade. Britain, ncsaia, had been able to bear, in what 7 it Manufactured., any, other countrv'in colonial market*,. r After i*Twig the practical diflculties mvdivedinKpoJidy, ooff f Imperial prei^rft change^in tho e# not 9 ®** *e%g majp^iyhose dcwwflfepgK W"»wf^«s lfAej!» %%4^» J .ing.a .blow at tho tv&a/o|£tt£feptiGn and, goodwill ffcindin^ to the colonies %uo upo» miLfyneni wpref^ntang r the! w#plfe icwmtry. f x^Xemql^e/ md^thajb, .owiiig, to 'the. Gavei^unentjs negative attitude, at, the fast .CkMeprence, the qojonies had be^m.'^tpivel;on. thear,own road. Tho Franot^C^na4ian, t agreeirtitinit. .yraa^tli© nrf&sta£e f <jf the journey. , ; ' Earl.CreTe^saJd it was imposHbleto consider the question of colonial preference in ,a t vacuum... It was part of a change a/far-reaching in ite effects as te be hardly calculable. Its adoption might mean a leap into the ravine of protection. Tho motion was ultimately with drawn.