Views of Other Public Men.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7606, 2 November 1903, Page 3

Views of Other Public Men.

(lieccived To-day, at 9.13 a.m.) London, November 1. Mr E. W. Beckett, member for Yorkshire, Whitney Division, in a speech at Scarborough, supported the Government within the limits of the Sheffield speech. He believed that the country "dumping in" was in greater danger than the country dumped upon. If the Government accepted Mr Chamberlain's policy, it would split up the Party.

Lord Morley, Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, speaking at Plimmerston, said that though he differed with Mr Chamberlain's proposals in some respect, he differed with The Government's poJPon was somewhat difficult, he confessed. If the seed sown by Mr Chamberlain ripened, tbey should be prepared to reap the crop. Freetrade was one of the conditions under which prosperity had been created. He maintained that the difficulty was to disentangle and cause effect. It might be that, in some cases, retaliation was advisable, but he would like to know what mandate the Government wanted ? A mandate to impose duties wherever they thought fit was impossible constitutionally. If the Government produced a concrete case, doubtless the House of Commons would sanction it. He did not believe that " dumping " had seriously injured the Home trade. He he d no belief whatever that taxation on food would raise the rate of wages.