PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11167, 30 January 1904, Page 5

PREFERENTIAL TRADE.

Gosohen on Chamberlain.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright.

Received January 28, 10.38 p.m. LONDON, January 29.

Viscount Goschen, speaking at Halifax, said that while Mr Chamberlain promised increased employment,' he failed to show where the hundreds of thousands of workmen would, be found to enable us to ; do without foreign imports. It would be an immense relief if • a Royal Commission examined the figures of all parties and pronounced an authoritative "judgment. Mr Chamberlain's whole arguments rested on a series of dangerous fallacies'. No doubt trade depression existed, but there was no reason to upset the trade system on the experience of a few months' protection abroad, which neither gave regular employment nor prevented a commercial crisis in Germany, and undoubtedly was accompanied by long hours, less pay and a diminution of food. He protested against Mr Chamberlain's denial of the Imperial instinct of his opponents. - Received January 29, 11.45 p.m. LONDON, January 29. The Cobden Club, in a pamphlet which it issued, entitled "Fact/ versus Fiction," traverses Mr Chamberlain's contentions, and declares his statements relative to destroyed and languishing industries are ludicrous exaggerations.