THE FISCAL QUESTION.
— . » FREETRADE OR PREFERENCE. LORD CROMER'S VIEWS. United Press A_-ocda_on<»^By Mectric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 22. j Lord George Hamilton, presiding at a dinner to Lord Cromer by the Unionist Freetrade Club, said he was glad that wiser counsels had prevailed at the Birmingham meeting and courtmartial exclusions had been discontinued. This B-iowed returning sanity. It was now clear that Mr Balfour was not a protectionist, and adhered to free* trade in the abstract. Lord Cromer said that on© result of ' the reversal of the policy whei-Under Britain for so many years had grown and prospered would be to quicken into life whatever more or leas dormant Anglophobia existed throughput the world. " Once the passions which protection or preference would evoke were let loose," he said, "our present naval establishments would be insufficient to~ maintain the security of our vast pos_es(--0-_s. One of the main reasonwhy we were enabled to do good work in Egypt, and why Europe, acquiesced in the continuance of this work, was the rigid application to Egypt of the principles of freetrade. Once we depart from these principles our occupation will be viewed in a very different light." . -
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9092, 23 November 1907, Page 7
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