A FREETRADERS’ OPINION
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 1.12 a,m., Oct. 23. LONDON, Oct, 23.,
The Daily Telegraph states that Parliament will run its normal course unless Government are defeated. on a vote oi want o£ confidence on an important bill, Mr Edward Gray, speaking at Alnwick, said that it was impossible to return to protection. Mr Chamberlain only half understood what protectionists were after. They were trying to establish the same conditions as to the trusts of America. If preference were transferred to tlic colonies, the production of Britain’s food would cause a decline, necessitating the rcimposition of taxes on tea and sugar. He did not wish to behave ungenerously to the colonies, if by further sacrifices we could draw them near. Free trade within the Empire might have something in it, but since they were protectionists, Mr Chamberlain must be causing them grave misgiving. Instead of drawing the colonics _to freetrade, they were drawing us to protection.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1030, 24 October 1903, Page 2
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