EMPIRE’S TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1009, 30 September 1903, Page 3

EMPIRE’S TRADE.

COGENT REPLIES BY MR CHAMBERLAIN.

By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright

Received 10.32 p.m., Sept. 29 London, Sept. 29.

Mr Chamberlain, replying to an Ulster correspondent, who expressed fear that the Eduoation Act would deter some convinced tariff reformers from supporting Mr Chamberlain’s proposals, said that the Act ought to bo given a fair trial. If it was found to produce tho evils oppononts attributed it, tho demand for amendment would deserve favorable consideration. Mr Chamberlain, replying to a Nottingham manufacturer, declared that ho had takon up the fiscal question chiefly in the interests of the working people of the country, whose livelihood was seriously threatened by our changed commercial position and relations. Ho added, 11 My policy always has been to do more for the friends than the enemies of our trade. The colonios are our best friends, the largest customers for manufactures, and the greatest potential source for the supply of food. Thoy' are ready to make profitable arrangements with us, while foreigners are gradually closing every outlet to our trade. Which then will you favor ? Upon tho answer deponds the union of the Empire and the prosperity of the workers of Britain,

London, Sept. 29. Sic Chas. Dilke explains that when he wrote his book on Greater Britain he favored trying to grasp other methods of reasoning, and tried to show the .Motherland freetraders that Australian protection rested not so much on the protected manufacturer’s pocket interest a 3 on the unsolfish convictions of the workors, that was still a factor in the Commonwealth, and should modify our method of discussing fiscal questions.