MR. BALFOUR AND THE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11863, 18 February 1907, Page 3

MR. BALFOUR AND THE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION

| Eeceived Feb 17, 5.14 p.m I London, Feb 16 1 Mr Balfour, addressing the ] National Union Conservative Constii tutional Association said he saw un- ! mistakable signs of a coalescence on 1 Unionist views in the direction of a | Bafe, sound and sober policy of fiscal \ reform, based on the grounds of the \ absolute necessity for enlarging the \ basis of taxation, the vital need of j safeguarding their unfair competiI tion, the need of wider foreign | markots, and the need of securing | the great colonial markets of the % future. Mr Balfour declared that f the Government had no constructive | policy and therefore threatened the | Eouse of Lords, but the Government I was not possessed of the moral posi- | tion to enable it to revoultionise our I historic constitutor!.