The Fiscal Question.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 12761, 14 January 1905, Page 5

The Fiscal Question.

♦- 5 PRIME MINISTER'S JIKCO3LMENDATIONS. , United Press Association.— By Eloctric [ Telegraph.— Copyright. London, January }•». Tn the course of his speech at the ■ Scottish Unionist banquet at Glasgow, JWr Balfour, referring- 1o fiscal matters, said he had nothing 1 to add to' or withdraw from his Edinburgh speech. He recommended his countrymeh to avail themselves of every opportunity to produce a closer union with the colonies, and lie hoped that colonial conierences would become esseniiiajlly kjpsajrt of tho working^machinery of tho Empire as the House of Commons. Every effort t would be made by the Government in that direction to forward the'^novemon't vrhatevjjrj \ might . fe e • the ' tissue . He (would( w ould rather fail with those 'holding' a great ideiiL than succeed .with the 'mrblind, narrow-minded. . and uninugi native oii«s who were, never capable 'of gazing^beyond their parikh confines and wjxbe . ineapabii of picturirig a future when' fho coloniesy -in their jilenutude of would be -bound to the En)pirc by organic ties.