TARIFF: SOCIALISM.
BALFOUR'S ALTERNATIVE. FREE-TRADE FINANCE IS ROBBERY. DYING SHIBBOLETHS. (By Toloerapli.pl'rods Asaoclatlon.-GopyrlcnU / London, July 28. Mr. Balfour, in tho courso of his speech at tho anti-Budget meeting, declared that those who may have doubted tho nectsaity for fiscal reform bofoio the Budget was brought down could suroly doubt it no longci. Thoso who saw what in tho hands of the present Government Frce-trado finance ically meant must have lost those illusions which had a real basis of sound finance behind thorn in tho old days of Peel and Gladstone, but which had now lost all their justification, and were rapidly losing all their glamour, and would soon bo rejected by tho common sense of tho community as a whole Addressing an overflow meeting, Mi. Balfour declared that Mr. Lloyd-Georgo's Budget embodied the beginning of a Socialist propaganda aiming to destroy private property, not by a sanguinary revolution, but by tho peaceful, Blightly more prolonged, but not less efficacious method of unjust and undue taxation. Mr. Balfour's remarks were received with loud cheers.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 573, 30 July 1909, Page 7
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173TARIFF: SOCIALISM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 573, 30 July 1909, Page 7
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