Preferential Trade.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12287, 20 June 1903, Page 5

Preferential Trade.

..FREE !TRAJ)E : MOTION, REJECTED, 1 CANADA- AiND BRITAIN.' „; THE ATTITUDE OF QERMANY. i -United Preie: Association.— By- Elec^ trie Telegraph.-iCopyriglit. ■ " London, JXino 10. , By 951 to, 332 the House of .Com* an otis; rejected- Mr Hutton's motion: "That this House- condemns " any departure -from free trade, anil considers protection, either, for -purposes of colonial preference- ' or retaliation upon foreigners will inevitably lead to dis-. aster; and endanger the unity of the Empire. It expresses profound regret tliat any Minister is committed %o a t policy of food- taxation." Replying to Sir Gharles Dilkc, Mr Chamberlain stated that the Government doirerkJprdd . Germany had matle a hostile discrimination against Canada, calculafel to prc|\ T ent the Dominion's right to enter into closer tuitions with Uie Motherland. The British Government resented that, without, blam. ing ,Germany ,f or 'exercising an „un*dt<ubteKl right so long as Britain took /treatment - lyniff clown. The mere Suggestion, of another. policy stoppeel jGejpian jiew^papers from ad.vocatiiug -a^rfeKer-^liSraSmijiailon. Canada ap-. 'patently "reco^nisbd'that- 'Bifi tain's pa.tience was exhaustf&L The action of the Premiers at the Colonial Conference showed they were disappointed wilih our policy. Ottawa, / June 19. Mr Fielding, Minister of Finance, in the Dominion House of Commons? and ■ rrfi)lyi,uff to Mr Tarte and others,^ said the fact that only 28 Commoners favoured the corn duty showed that England was not ntnning away from free tralde. It was no use predicting that Hnglan'd would readily accept Mr ChanVfoerlain's idoa as to the corb. duties, or eVe"n his larger anfcl jnOre moderate scheme.' Mr Chatin'berlain was' destined to haive an uphill figKt before accomplishing his object. Canada's syntpathies . were with him. ; Canada reSused his original proposal for Imperial . free trade a» it was inimical to industry. What was now prefposeel was moderate duties in Canada,and moderate duties in England things 1 whereon lin{Tl a nxl carotl to have them. ,