MR. A. CHAMBERLAIN ON LAISSEZ-FAIRE.
LONDON, February 16. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) twitted Mr. Asquith with disclosing no remedy for the existing fiscal evils except "Do nothing; change nothing; shut your eyes; cling to the traditions of fifty years asso." The Government desired to obtain fair terms for British industries, greater liberty of action in respect to taxes, the power to negotiate effectively in fiscal matters, and greater liberty to promote closer union between the colonies and the Motherland. It would be madncsa to refuse to consider suggestions for union, and absurd to exclude preference from consideration at a Colonial Conference. Both the British and the colonial representatives must go to the conference with- hands untied.
Mr. Arthur Elliot, member for Durham, said that he. and not a few other Unionists, would cross the floor of the House if Mr. Balfour declared that his fiscal policy and Mr. Chamberlain's were identical. i
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 17 February 1905, Page 5
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156MR. A. CHAMBERLAIN ON LAISSEZ-FAIRE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 17 February 1905, Page 5
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