A SCIENTIFIC TARIFF

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1931, Page 2

A SCIENTIFIC TARIFF

CONSERVATIVE PARTY’S PLAN. AVOIDANCE OF POLITICS. London, July 21, The Conservative Leader, Air. Stanley Baldwin, after declaring that Britain’s fiscal system was shortly going to be changed by the general assent of the nation, said he had madp up his mind that he would not be head of a Government which was going to make Great Britain a “profiteers’ paradise” or Parliament a “crooks’ corner.” “We must, make the tariff ‘knaveproof’ as far as possible," he said, ‘Therefore, it is essential that the scien-

tific adjustment and adaptation of the tariff should be taken from the. hands of politicians by the establishment of a permanent non'-politjeal Tariff Commission the members of which ought to be lifted as far above party politics as arc His Alajesty’s judges. Their duty would be authoritatively to _ advise the existing Government regarding tariffs, to which Parliament's Assent would be necessary.