Turning The Tables.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8807, 8 May 1907, Page 2

Turning The Tables.

An Irresistible Appeal. ’Mr Lloyd George continued that if Government had given the cold shoulder to the colonies they had given the same answer that the British colonies would have given had the British Government tried to induce them to change their fiscal system. They wore - unable to give any other reply as the colonial representatives know before leaving homo. He asked them to consider the condition of a thickly-populated country like Britain which depended on supplies from other lauds and with conditions very different from those of the colonies. No alteration of the fiscal system would end the blemishes of Britain’s social system The causes were deeper and older, and Government believed that a change from freetrade to protection would simply aggravate the existing difficulty. The colonies were profiting by the lessons of the old world and wore dealing with social and economic evils effectively before they hardened into malignity. The Government appealed to the colonies not to countenance any scheme of however much profit to them which involved the risk of the older country.

Mr Deakiu vainly urged earlier and later sittings in order to expedite business.