BUDGET PROBLEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 588, 17 August 1909, Page 7

BUDGET PROBLEMS.

. UNIONIST PROTEST. SEVERE DEFEAT AT MANCHESTER. LIBERALS CHEERED. tl!y Yetcsrap.il.-I'l-cB!) Assrict.-uliiii.-Oourrleht.S (Rcc. August IG, 10.30 p.m.). London, August 16.' Tho Budget Protest League—organised by Mr. Long and other Unionists to spread tho anti-Budget propaganda—held a demonstration at Manchester which was attended":,-by 15,000 people. ' / • ... ; ;^O" Mr. Joynson-Hicks (the feat of Mr. Winston Churchill at North-west-Manchester last year was hailed' asa .tariff reform and anti-Socialist victory, • ant} as'indicating the mind of Manchester on the fiscal' issue) addressed the gathering) but was subjected to constant interruptions. . Cheer after cheer was given-.for. 1 Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Eschequer) and Mr. Winston Churchill (President of the Board of Trade). The motion of protest.against the Budget was defeated by a largo majority. WHAT IS THE MiND OP THE COUNTRY? • ME. ASQUITH CONFIDENT. .. , London, August 15 The Prim,o Minister, Mr. Asquith, speaking ai Bletchloy, in Buckinghamshire, said people had no conception of. the splendid character of the reception that awaited the Budget 'ti the cquntry.. No. protests-had been recei?ed from working mon or from the middle classes.

■■ Lord, Monson (who sits in tie House -if Lords as a Liberal Unionist) ; declined ro attend a Liberal demonstration at Barton-on-Humbor, on the ground that the Burlgit was Socialistic in principle and antagonistic to Liberalism. If it were passed, he added, it would prove highly detrimental to the great financial" and commercial interests ?f fcho country. ' ■■. . . "> IN PROTECTIONIST CERMANY. ; , ■■ HUGE DEFICIT. ; ,-.' J3erlln, August 15. Germany's deficit for-the year ended MaroK ■was£lß,Boo,ooo sterling. The taxes, on mports were £4,900,000 below expectations. :