BRITISH POLITICS.
MB CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH.
By telegraph'. Press Ass’n, Copyright
Received 10 a.m., Nov. 5. London, Nov. 4,
Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, said that whatever the result the election would enable the party to shake off the apathy born of timorous counsels 3nd half hearted convictions. Personally he was well oontent. with the progress of tariff reform, which had shaken the idol of free imports to its base. They might have done better if the party were thoroughly united, and if some had Bbown more courage and played lees for safety. Though Lord Rosebery had deolared the reformers’ case pulverized, Mr Asquith admitted that fiscal reform had regained the predominating issue. Although Mr Asquith emphasLei exceptional trade prosperity the proportion of unemployed had risen 25 per cent., while the standard wage bad fallen, deereaßing two million in the last year. He would infinitely prefer a powerful party minority to an impotent majority.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1595, 6 November 1905, Page 2
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