FOULING THEIR OWN NEST ON HUSTINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6917, 24 May 1929, Page 7

FOULING THEIR OWN NEST ON HUSTINGS

Baldwin’s Warning

EVIL EFFECT OF SPEECHES ABROAD . HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING United Press Association —By ElectrU Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 7.15 p.m. LONDON, May 23. Mr. Baldwin sounded a note of warning at Bradford against the effect created abroad by speeches of certain candidates who seemed to take a delight in blackening the character and reputation of their own country. Foreigners reading some speeches would come to the conclusion that Britain was down and out and that the majority of her people were workless. It was being said we signed tho Kellogg pact with our tongue in our check, that wo had learned nothing from the Great War and that we were piling up armaments. It would be supposed there was nothing standing between Europe and perpetual peace except Great Britain. There never was such a sompletc caricature. Only demagogues who thought of winning elections before either truth or peace would paint such a picture. "This talk may seem childish to us but it does nothing but harm to our reputation and trade abroad. I have never been so rash as to say ‘All is well’ but I have stated and state again the whole troth—that the country has shown a marvellous and widespread recovery from the troubles of war.

“We arc definitely recovering our position in the trade of the world and doing it without having to repudiate debts or inflate currency. Ninctv percent of our people arc living at a higher standard than ever before. We havo reduced our fighting forces and disarmed more than any other country in tlio world. I am convinced that with close co-operation between employers and men, both using their brains in reorganisation. prosperity is dawning and will continue.”

Safeguarding Has Become Big Issue SNOWDEN’S CHALLENGE. Received Thursday, 10.5 p.m. LONDON, May 23. Safeguarding has become a prominent election issue, at any rato, in tho industrial centres. Mr. Baldwin who announced his triple pi'cscription for British trade as firstly rationalism, secondly safeguarding and thirdly the active development of Empiro trade, claims there aro 80,000 at present in employment who, but for the safeguarding McKenna duties, would be idle. All safeguarded trades had progressed; all employed moro workmen, while pricos on the homo market were cheaper. Mr. Philip Snowden, on the contrary, challenges anybody to point to any safeguarded industry and show that safeguarding had any beneficial effect. He declares he will go further and prove it has had an injurious effect on practically all of them.