IMPERIAL TRADE.
IS IT WISE TO ALTER THE FISCAL
SYSTEM ?
MR. HARCOURT SAYS “NO.”
(By Electric Telegraph.—Cippyright.) (United Press Association.)
(Received 27, 8.5 a.m.)
London, January 27. Mr. Harcourt, speaking at Bacup, said nobody at' the Imperial Conference suggested that the fiscal system should bo altered for their profit to the injury of the working classes of Britain. If there was a danger of losing the colonies without a tariff, then we would lose them any way, because, whatever causes of friction might exist with the colonies, he knew they would bo increased a hundredfold by haggling -between State and State, and trade and trade, through conflicting interests.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 38, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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108IMPERIAL TRADE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 38, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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