MORE OF LORD CURZON'S SPEECH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13673, 11 April 1908, Page 5

MORE OF LORD CURZON'S SPEECH.

APPEAL FOR S PRUS^^NCE.

(Received AoriHl, 8.8 a.m.) , LONDON, April 10. Lord Curzon, at his Basingstoke meeting, stated that India might conceivably suffer more from the, retaliation of foreign nations than sjbe could gam from Britain's preference. It was> .however, to our interest that her interests' should not be sacrificed in any coming change. Her revenue tariff was so useful and lucrative that no party in India would consent to, part with so- useful a means of negotiation. It had been used more than once to

threaten reprisals on foreign" 1 nations. The Liberal Government had - events v in train to disturb many things in. India, btffc it tad not shown any tendency to upset the tariff in India. Such a tariff must arid ojaght to come in England: Radicals ' Were driving them to adept it in the future, which the Unionists must redeem from the Liberal Party, acting as wet nurse to Britain's offspring whom the Liberals affected to repudiate and disown. "If we got such a tariff for revenue purposes, " he added, "I canno^ for the life " of me see vrhj we should not get a tariff — after- consultation with the | colonial Governments — for strengthening the ties of Imperial connection, and also utilise it to improve trade and Secure better employment of workers. "Whatever we do> let us not adopt proscription! We are unable to affordV to estrange suck men as Lord Salisbury's two sons. That would be unthinkable. Our policy should be one of reconciliation not reprisals." J