AUSTRALIA AND THE FISCAL QUESTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 13 February 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIA AND THE FISCAL QUESTION.

(Received 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The Free Trade Association lias received a. repi'v from Mr. John Burns rccretthv li"* inability to lecture in Australia on nsealism. Referring to Mr. Chamberlain-* ,-H-he.mo he says: "This is on ly a divert-av subterfuge to cover up his* disastrous South African war. his foolish Sugar Corrveuiion policy, and his monstrous reviwal of slavery, by allowin" alien mine o*vners to displace British ana Australian labour by Chinese coolies. w e is somewhat surprised that so few responsible Australians should have been fascinated by his fallacies, and that some labour legislators are (?not) too simple to see through his Home electoral devices. Bnt the only effect of his revival of protection will be to disrupt the forces of reactionary Imperialism, whose ten years of extravagant Government are jmribffifr imperilling our financial, commercial' military and naval positron. 1 snspert that some of your politicians ere this air sorry thai they identified theni.elves even in sentiment with the most, costly, dangerous and ruinous policy ever projected against the well-being of the British people, by a statesman who has never been their "guide, philosopher and friend.'"