BRITISH PROTECTIONISTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10530, 18 December 1912, Page 5

BRITISH PROTECTIONISTS.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received December 18, 8 a.m. London, Deecmber 17. The Times says the Unionist leaders must not attempt to shift the onus of food taxation to the conference of overseas’ Ministers. If taxation is undesirable as a purely domestic reform then it is undesirable at all. The Chronicle says Mr Bonar Law’s suggestion is a palpable attempt to shift the odium of food taxes from the shoulders of the Unionists to the Dominions. Received December 18, 9.20 a.m. , London, December 17. The Manchester Guardian says Mr Bonar Law’s offer to Lancashire to refer the British food taxes to the judgment of a body of strong overseas protectionists is a hollow mookery. The Pall Mall Gazette says his speech means the reversal of the banged, barred and bolted door policy. The Dominions will be treated as members of the Imperial family. The Star says Mr Bonar Law is unwilling to allow the British to decide their food taxes, and the colonies alone axe to settle Britain’s fate.