BRITISH POLITICS.
THE FISCAL QUESTION.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighl Received 9.7 p.m., May 19.
. , .. . , London, May 19. « fm. V6rt mg t 0 discussion of the late Lord Salisbury s fiscal views, Colonel Deniston, a Canadian, writes to the Times that Lord j Salisbury, between 1890 and 1892, corresponded with him relative to tariS reform and preferential tariffs, declaring he would nf l- he Baw any imm ediate hope of a modification of tbe British tariff He considered the main difficulty lay with the people s real aversion to the imposition of [ duties on articles of first necessity. The peoplo did not comprehend that the mainfi 6 «e a ? C f ° ■ w 8 Bm P irs might depend upon fiscal legislation, but were led away bv the more unreasoning and uncompromising advocates of freetrado. Lord Salisbury, writing in 1901, predicted that no change of policy was expected until the men died out whose minds were formed under the influence of fallacies proclaimed during the freetraae agitation. b
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1459, 20 May 1905, Page 2
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