The Fiscal Question.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12437, 15 December 1903, Page 2

The Fiscal Question.

United Press. Association.— By. Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. Received December 14, 0.3"» am. . LonHon, Deceuib >r i :•} Sl>- W. V. Hancourt, in a .^De-.-k, a d rnitted tfh'at dhitmaping reqjuirejd 1 very jsevloxu consd^eratiidji. He was r«rej pared t_o stuSy any proposal', but aid [not believe tafcatiion. of fopd cor id reino •/ Hiiiimjping., wjhiich was the outcome and result, of proteetipn. He CBiticisea Mr QhiaimjDerlaMi's scheirio, [ and drily asfceScl i w wth.at We Would get in retiron, for taxation: on food. There "wiaa no evidence tibat preference would, cfreate .a material . bond between tihe Motherland amd, tie colonies. He w,o(uld lifce to see .the wheat fields of; EfnglanH mlore cultivated., but .to talk of doing tliai by a2g dainty was nonsense. Germany .was tunable to do it with seven, shillings and Fi"ance was tUnable to do it witn a t(welve ahillimg» iiuty. In owier to make Britain ©elf s'ufpjpor^g; twejaiby igMllings woiild hot smffilce, anfl we wquKJ ctefpri,ve ottrsel,ves of the world's wheat fields. It iWould be madness 'to tie tne hands of fiutture fisnance Ministers. Tih"e Gioiveainjndnt .was derelict; it ha(d lost its best Plfficerb, and was .washed abalit by •waives over which it .had no o6nfe.ol. Sir Eclwanfl Fry, at Leeds, asked wihotiher we wei-e srure the colonies, meant tjhe same tihmg as ourselves by preferential tariff. We heart! of their piassingi many resolutions* but it was plain tjieir iiiea was to inci-ease t<he deities agai(ns(t foreigners wnile not dijtniiiialhing 1 them against Bri'tLsih. Mr Ghajmberiaim's projp'osals would dl - ag us iaitio jjfroteotion, aijid briogf with, it heartburjas aJQlcl HLsa^pomfmeait, and lead ito political logrolling by people seeking, to enirict tihemselfres at the OP(nj'm!u!nitys expense. Eeceivqd December 14, 7.13 a.m. Ottawa, Decemiber 13. Sir E. J. Cartwrig-lit, Oa/naaian Minister of Finance and .Trade, speelia-' ing at Toronto' said : "Jf Mir Chamber lain Says he can tax fooid fr"ojni all cjotintories without in,cfreasing the ]3|rice to the consumer he is wrong. Biitain caji £oix;e reoipiy>city on the United States or stimulate iommigiratiom (and food prodfuetion of co.untlries outtsitle the Unfte9 Statesi, anid pave tjie way for a tra.de allianco of the English sjpeal<iag people. -He believed the United States was willing to enter inio reciprofcdi .^ade relaUons, giv'mg , ihc !A|nglp Saxon race control of ttwee and a half oontmeorts. If FJuglanjd taxed foo^ impqris iihe tax wfoiultl hit t-he A;mericaai fanner- so Maiid (alffec-fci'ng Jris T^osition ny xniriy por oentj that ho would renounce pi'o'tet&ilon, and the result ' would *Le an alliance to the acli\*ant.iaje of Britain, lAinerica and Canada.. . Liondon, December 13. Mr James Ribon, ap.*op>3 the alleged decline iln the iixjn traße, declares tihlat within 40. years his iinis's wages increased from 28s 3 1 per week of 00 ■hjours to 37s of n$ horns Oui pig iron pcrodaxcoion for the first Lulf of tihe present year wag nearly n record, while the United Statfs^ic'fluction is decreasing.