THE FISCAL PROBLEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8508, 10 February 1908, Page 6

THE FISCAL PROBLEM.

(By Electric Telegraph—CoDyright.) Per Press Association. LONDON, Feb. 9. While still not believing- that any practical results will flow from so extravagant an interference with commerce as the Commonwealth's new protection involves, the Spectator advises the British tariff reformers, if they are sincere, to agree to the introduction of the Australian system. Viscount Ridley presided at the Tariff Reform League annual meeting, at which 15,000 delegates were represented. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain sent a message stating that the progress of the movement surpassed the most sanguine expectations. Mr Austin Chamberlain, M.P., emphasised the evidence there was in every direction of a growing desire for knowledge concerning fiscal reform, and the growing uneasiness in regard to the condition of trade. Mr Winston Churchill, addressing the League of Young Liberals, said the greatest problem of the Empire was at home, namely, the condition of the people. The problem of unemployment was the Achilles' heel of civilisation and the So- ' cialists and Tariffites fastened thereon like greedy vultures, hoping to be carried intp power. He was not prepared fo say that all men should have everything- until everybody had something. The trend of Liberal policy must, incroas- ' ingly build up the minimum standard of life and labour. . ..'» .■'■'-