UNITY THE EMPIRE.
THE GREAT FISCAL QUESTION,
Received September 4, 10.53 p.m.
LONDON, September 4.
Sir Henry 1 Campbell-Bannetman explains that in his Bpeech made on June 5, attacking Mr Chamberlain's " fiscal scheme, wherein he declared" t*hat twelve millions of the population were underfed, he used Charles Booth 'and B.> S. Eountree (eminent Socialist reformers) as his authorities. They had- proved 30 per cent of the population in East ' London and York are under-fed and on the verge of hunger. "If," says Sir 'Henry; "we 1 applied that proportion to the whole population of Britain, we would get !| the 12 millions."
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11045, 5 September 1903, Page 5
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