Manawatu Daily Times Duties and Ottawa

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6865, 23 May 1932, Page 6

Manawatu Daily Times Duties and Ottawa

"It has always been one of the most inexplicable of the countless heresies of the free importers,” said Lord Hailsham, Secretary of State for War, in a recent speech, "that they are able to regard with complacency the brutal and unscientific method of checking imports by depreciating your currency until you starve your people, while they sternly refuse the flexible and scientific method of checking those impoi’ts which we can do without and produce for ourselves by means of a reasonable tariff.” Referring to the Ottawa Conference, he said that it was not going to be an easy conference. “Do not think that the great statesmen of the Dominions will set aside the Dominions’ interests to benefit our manufactures. Do not think that Mr. Thomas will sacrifice the interests of Great Britain to those of the Dominions. They will not make a success by haggling. The conference can only be a success if each party to it is determined to protect the essential interests of his own unit in the Empire and is determined to prefer the. interests of the rest of the British Empire to those of any foreign nation.”