POST WAR TARIFFS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2736, 3 April 1916, Page 5

POST WAR TARIFFS

, SIR T. MACKENZIE'S REPLY By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyricht (Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 1. Sir Thomas Mackenzie; speaking at the Mansion House, replied, to Sir Win. Lever's protest against post-war tariffs. He said: "We entered the war not for trado or territory, but for the preservation of peace and the freedom of civilisation. Germany has abused every privilege granted her, and s'ven now is developing plans for our ruin, degradation, and enslavement. It was not with the view of resuming trado with Germany that tho wives and mothers overseas seat their husbands and sons to fight." Sir Thomas Mackenzie hoped that Sir W. Lever's doctrine would not find acceptance anywhere. [Sir' William Lever, speaking at tho annual .meeting of shareholders of Lever Brothers, Ltd., deprecated the efforts that were being made to secure British trade protection after the war by tariffs against' Austria and Germany. He said the strength of Britain was due to open trade, and the freedom of the seas. When the war was over all bitterness • must cease- The creaticn of tariffs against Germany was a cowardly cry, worthy of a backward race. The policy of anti-German restrictions would' only stimulate a false Imperialism founded upon injustice and disregard -of the rights of others.]