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Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1923, Page 3

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tUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CAItLB ASSOCIATION, TARIFF OI KSTinX. BRITISH VIEWS. 1 .1 INl)t )N, Noveinliet 8. The ‘Daily Express'-’ -ays that as regards the tari/f protect inn proposals of the Diime Minister. Mr Baldwin. any Rritish industry being dc-tniyed by lincign dumj ing might to have lari/t protection. It declare-, however, there is no proof of industries being destroyed by dumping on any scale to justify a eeneial taull for Britain. It s ;y----that lo carry protection without jeal I'l'-lrli'iri- will rob the tariff movement <u it- Mini, or -iiecess. It savs |it fcreiu me ms there must l«- prefer, cm e dm ics on meat and w ileal, but t: c Biifi-b Government -o fai ictuses these. 'I lie paper say- 1 :-a t. after i !:e collapse oi the European markii~. Britain must •in*l her expo: t t r;i-L• a new economic entity, within lie- Empire mainly, but -in h a market could not In- consolidated without a. swe ping measure of in-ter-1 m; ei iaj preference. The pie - generally, except party ni'g ,: ns, a-ks 111111‘ r details of Mi Bald-

win s picicrence priigramine. In the meantime there i- mm-h sueeu. late n on the attitude of .Mi Lloyd George, .Mr ( liurelnll and Lord Birkenhead. which has not yet been made known.

Mr Neville ( liamherlain, speaking at Great llarevend. said: - u'e intend nfteriiig the Dominion- sec,my mi the Riitisii market -n a- to enable them io place their orders for locomotives and machinery in liiiiain and to take more ol our people as settlers. It is the prospect, oi the new dominions a.- a market which must deride the Government's policy that is now being dvvclopcd at tin- Economic ('(inference. . Evidence of the dillienlties likely to Lo experienced by Mr Baldwin in carry-

ing out a poric-y ol c-r ina-i-iion without taxing food, was furnished by a h— , him at a. meeting if the (entral and Associated ('bunder.- of Ag: multure. Loudoii. | role-ting ugnitist lie- unequal D-catnient of agrii ullcro loi-csli klow ed by Mr Baldwin's Al.sm host, i -|eeh. 'Hi- ( hair man. I id Straehie. .P c-laivd that it the Pivtnie;'- .suggestions were carried out. agricultural interest- would he sai l ili.-oil in the iuti'i'o-t- oi the m'i n ufact u rer. .MR .MASskvs INVITATION At CEPTKD. (Received this day at 9. Id a.m.) LONDON, November S. The ('. uui'il of the Empire Press Union lias mnilied Mr Mnssev of its enrdial accept nice of his invitation lo its members attending the third Imperial I ’res- (.'enlcrcnec m Australia in 192 d to visit New Zealand. A WAR CRIMINAL. FAR IS. Nov 8. The Ambassadors Cnnlercncc has decided to ask the Dutch I eivernmeut not to permit the ex-Oerman Crown Prince tn leave Dutch territory, and the Cerium) Government not t.-i permit him to enter Germany, on the ground that Inis on the list of war criminals, whose surrender is demanded hv the Allies.

A RECTOR IA I ADORES': f>y I.OHD BIRKENHEAD. IMeceivc/1 tins day at 9.0 a.m.) EON DON. Nov. I.ord Birkenhead, in a striking Rcc tenijd address al Glasgow ( i.iver-ity. in Hu- Milpcct of ideali-in in iiiioruatioua pcditics, said I hat war- were as like!;, to occur in the fill ore as in t'i»o |"i-t The framers of the League ol Nationforgot human nature a- alistirdly athey neglected hi-tory. Of all idealists. .Jcmi.s was the most prc-cniinen!. Lot it was iinrcsimablc to suppose that when he admonished the a-saulied t, turn the cheek tec tlie Minior cm- Dm rieli to sell their possession and give to the prior, that he was laying clow I standards of conduct which he eithei expected or desired to see generally adopted. On the eontrurv .Jesus was diifusing through the medium of metaphor a sweet, beautiful moral atmosphere for the piii'iliration ot imperlec-r niaiikiud. I’olilicallv and philosophically the motive of self-interest not only is. hut must lie the mainspring oi human conduct. The experience of thousands of years has shown the desire lor s-it advancement is the only adequate incentive for the achievement ot the standard of labour, which c-acli individual may lie recplired lo i-nntributo to the cciiiunou sclieme, uncleturc-i! hv the shattering repudiation of their beln-ls. whic h the world war had hrnught about. Idealists had originally to exploit the outbreak of war for their own i-ontrci-versial purposes. T lit-v admitted that war was uufni't ante, hut said ic had a bright side as it was a war lo end war." The larger claim made on beliall of the 1.-aguc- nl Nations always seemed to me fantastic-. What was tie- influence sured by tile Cbri-iian religion over tinrecent world convulsion. Why did the Omnipotent Deity suddenly doom -n many innocent victims to basiled destruction. Did the- greatest priest hi the world enthroned in his Roman Unlace ever pronounce an intelligible ( oilelusiiin on the moral responsibility lor war. Was he iutliic-nced bv the lacl ilia I hi- 11-n-k had clivc-i ged beneath the different standards. If so. lie censed to be the divinely appointed moutlipucc" of higher morality, and look Ins place among the politicians. Me must learn from history, that no warrant exists lor the belief that the hump of nature has altered its whole character Irom the time man has been a combative animal. The world continues to odor glittering prizes lo men with stout arms and -harp swords, and ic is lor a martial p -ople like the Rritish lo ah-tain from prov.oc-alion. hut to maintain in our own hands, adequate means for our own protection, and being so equipped, to inarch with head erect ami eyes bright along the road of our Imperial destiny."