TARIFF REFORM.
PROPOSED BOUNTY ON WHEAT. /By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 7. The Conservatives are giving prominence to Sir Joseph Lawrence’s idea, of a grant of a bounty of 2s a quarter for colonial and home-grown wheat, money to be obtained by the taxation of foreign manufactures. Thus both the workers and agriculturists would bo benefited. Mr. Charles Bathurst, member for Wilts, supporting the proposition, argues that the bounty should be larger in the case of home-grown than colonial wheat; in fairness to English farmers, owing to their heavy rates and taxes, and also for the sake of fiscal orthodoxy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 2
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103TARIFF REFORM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 2
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