IMPERIAL POLITICS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 518, 16 November 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

■ ■•♦• IP UNIONISTS SUCCEED. TARIFF REVISION FORECSATED. Hv'lVlc-rMi.il.- Vr( ; i-sAKWKMaIion.---Uoji.vriKlit Received November 15, 10.10 p.m.. London, Friday. Ten thousand Unionists at n gathering at Albert Hall, gave an ovation to Mr Ronar Law, the applause lasting five minutes. lllstermen brought the largest Union Jack in (be world, it .stretched (he full lengi.li of the platform. Lord Lansdown<- made an important announcement of policy, lie remarked that the Unionists, if Mieecssful at the general oloctjon, uouuld be .1 roe to undertake tarili' reform and «mter reciprocal arrangements wilh the Dominions without further reference to the const Ueencies. Tariif reform was their foremost plank. It must be a in'.e bargain with • the Dominions. Each side doubtless think most, of all their own people, but both wouitl think of the Empire. If the Dominions ask us in return for substantial advantage to grant them a moderate duty on foreign wheat, sulliceinf. to bring to the Motherland markets, the unlimited supplies of all Canada r.nd Australia, the Union ists would examine the proposal undeterred by the cry of taxation of fond. The Unionisis were, prepared to give a two-fold undertaking: firstly to fix the precise limits of such taxes, limits which could not be exceeded without the people's further authorisation; secondly, any revenue from such taxes to be devoted to the alleviation ofth<> workers' burdens, Ihus making good .VI r Raifoars assurance that colonial reciprocity would not, increase the workers' cost of living.