Preferential Trade.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10499, 15 December 1903, Page 4

Preferential Trade.

(Per United Press Association-) LOJSiDO'Nj December 13. Sir WL Vernior Harooiuirt, M.P., West Mioimiiautihiahiirei, in a speech admitted tiiarfa diuamping; creqiuired very serious consideration. He was pra-pmteidkto-'Bbu^^4UD{]r~pi |<>poea<l',' but he did not believe the taxation, of food oouild remedy dumpingj, which; Was ■tike outcome of trusts, tfoe ,nesult of psroteotion- He criticised Mr Chamberlain's schema in detail, and .asiked. what tihey wouldl get in reinim. for *the taxation of food- There -was no evidence, that preferenioe would cireate a material bond between, 1 th'J iMotiherlaiad amid tbiei colonies. He •would like to «cc the wheatfields • f Eioglaad more cultivated. To talk of doing that by a 2s duty was noneensa. Germany was vmaible. to do it irithi« 7a, aauSi Franice was imable to do it wdth a 12® duty. In order to make Britain self-BUipporting 20s would not suffica, and) we would den priTtei oua^olvesi of ;tihe world rs wheaifcfielda It Would be uuadness to tie tikei hands of future finance Minister®The Govetrnment) was derelict and iiati losfa its ibest offiders- It was wtasbed «boxnt by itibe waTes, oretrwhicih it had no oomtipoili,' Sir Edward Grey, M.P., Liberal membai' for v Nprtih,iuiiiber'lan.d!, Berwick Divisioni, speaking at Leeds, ai&k»d wihethef we were «uir«i the oolouiea meant tihe same thing 1 as ourselTCS by preferential tairiff. We heasrd ot their ,passiiigi imainy resolutions, but it was plain their idea, was to increase the duties ,against foreigners amdlnot to diminish tihem against the. British Mr Objamiberlaia'a prioposals wou Td drag us into protection, andl bring with it heaaib-bumißgis and di&appoiiitmant,!and lead-to'politdoal log-roiling by ipeople seeking to enritfli themselvea ait the community's expense-