PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2672, 31 May 1905, Page 19

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

MSR JOHN BURNS SPEAKS OUT. LONDON, May 25. • Mr John Burns, in a letter declinir s<; the request of the Freetrade Libe*c* Association to visit Australia and lecture ■on Mr Chamberlain's proposals, says that, fortunately for Greater Britain, Mr Chan> berlain is baddy beaten in argument, hopelessly at Jault in his facts, and continuously wrong in his statistics. " I am somewhat surprised," the member for 3attersea continues, " that a few responsible Australians should have been fascinated by his fallacies and that some Labour legislators are too simple to see through his home electoral devices. The only effect of a revival of Protection would be to disrupt the forces of reactionaryImperialism. All the best minds and) the most disinterested statesmen and every one of the Labour members here are against Mr Chamberlain. I suspect that some of your politicians ere this are sorry j that they identified themselves with this, the most costly, dangerous, and ruinous j policy ever projected against the well-being j of the British people."