CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION.
CONFERENCE AT BIRMINGHAM. FISCAL REFORM DEMANDED. Received November 15, 9.47 p.m. LONDON, November 15. Two thousand delegates attended the Birmingham conference. Mr Chaplin moved that the first constructive policy be fiscal reform, broadening the basis of taxation, safeguarding the great productive industries from unfair competition, strengthening the facilities for negotiating in foreign markets, establishing preferential and com: merical arrangements with the colonies, securing British producers and workmen further advantage over foreign competitors in colonial markets. Mr A. B. Balfour wrote stating that he thought that the resolution summarised with perfect accuracy arid much felicity his speech at the Council of the National Union on February 15th last. The motion was enthusiastically carried. . The conference condemned the Government's inaction in repressing disorder in Ireland. It wis resolved that socialism is best combated by tariff reform and old age pensions. The conference greatly regretted Mr J. Chamberlain's illness, and rose in a body and sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8982, 16 November 1907, Page 5
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