PREFERENCE TO THE COLONIES.
NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE
PEOPLE.
Received September 18,11.25 p.m. London, September 18.
Mr Chamberlain, continuing, said: "An unscrupulous use was made of the old cry of a dear loaf, aud, in the absence of full public discussion, serious prejudice was created. The people are generally alive to the danger of unrestricted competition on the part of foreigners who close their markets against us while they find in ours an outlet for their surplus production. Still, they"do not appreciate the importance of the colonial markets to our trade, nor the danger of losing them unless we meet in some way their natural and patriotic desire for preference. The result, for the present at any rate, is that preference to the colonies involving any new duty, however small, on articles of food, even if accompanied by a reduction of taxation on other articles of food of equally universal consumption, is not acceptable to the majority of the constituencies. However regrettable or mistaken this decision, no Government of a democratic country can ignore it.'*
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 222, 19 September 1903, Page 2
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175PREFERENCE TO THE COLONIES. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 222, 19 September 1903, Page 2
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