THE FISCAL QUESTION.
loberal Policy Attacked.
LONDON, June 29. The Marquis of Lansdowne, speaking at the Liberal Union Club (a preferentialist organisation, of which he is president), said that the Imperial Conference had established the fact that the colonial offer of preference was firm, yet the Government refused to discuss it, lest it should raise the question of food taxation, though taxation to the extent of £14,000,000 was already imposed from that source.
Continuing, Lord Lansdowne described the Sugar Convention policy as free trade. It was prudery for the Government to be unwilling to raise a finger in defence of free trade against combinations such as trusts and cartels, and yet to guarantee five millions to protect Boer farmers from the Rand magnates. The Government's proposals regarding land also encroached on the, principle of free trade in land.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 5
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138THE FISCAL QUESTION. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 5
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