BALFOUR AT NOTTINGHAM.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 313, 19 November 1910, Page 5

BALFOUR AT NOTTINGHAM.

EXPOUNDS UNIONIST POLICY. London, Yesterday. Mr Balfour, addressing the National Union of Conservative Associations at Nottingham, had a stirring reception. Many M.P's. and parliamentary candidates were present and the audience was composed entirely of men. He spoke for an hour and a-half and declared Tariff Reform still the great constructive policy of Unionists. If it involved a burden on the wageearners he would not touch it. If it increased the cost of bread, compensation would be given in regard to tea and sugar. They were trying the Dominions too highly, in deferring indefinitely to espouse the preference they had so gladly and generously given, Had the Unionists at the Veto Conference agreed to the only terms whereon terms were possible, they would betray their cause. He next expounded the Unionist proposals in regard to land, the navy and the licensing laws. The Unionists would be false to their traditions if they did not extend workmen's insurance (which would ever be associated with i Mr Joseph Chamberlain) to other forms of industrial misfortune.