Imperial Fiscal Question

Southland Times, Issue 19264, 30 January 1904, Page 2

Imperial Fiscal Question

A CALM CHITIC. I'er United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON. Jun. 29. Received 29th, 1(1.38 pju. Viscount (Joschon, sponkin at Halifax, paid that while Mr Chamberlain promised increased employment, he failed to show where the hundreds of thousands of workmen would be found to enable us to do without foreign imports. It would be an immense relief if a ttoynl Commission examined the figures of all parties- and pronounced an authoritative judgment. Mr Chamberlain's whole arguments rested lon n series of dangerous fallacies. No 1 doubt trade depression existed, but thai was no reason for upsetting a trude systorn on the experience of a few months Protection abroad neither gave regular employment nor prevented commercial crises In Germany, undoubtedly, it was accompanied by long hours, less pay and diminution of food He protested against Ur Chamberlain's denial of Imperial instincts to his opponents. A Cobdcn Club pamphlet has been issued, entitled " Fact versus Fiction." It traverses Mr Chamberlain's contentions and declares that his statements relative to destroyed and languishing industries arc ludicrous exaggerations.