TARIFF REFORM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 13 January 1913, Page 5

TARIFF REFORM.

THE UNIONIST POLICY

London, January 11. All the Unionists except five signed the memorial.

The ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ says that the memorial will enable the tariff policy to be instituted immediately the Unionists are returned to power. Mr. Bonar Law, receiving the memorial at Standf&rth. said that he would consult with Lord Lansdowne and reply at the earliest opportunity. Mr. Ronald McNeill has announced that 98 per cent, of the Unionists supported the memorial.

MR. JESSE COLLING S’ VIEWS

London, January 12

Mr. Jesse Ceilings, interviewed, said that if tariff reform were advocated minus food taxes, it meant disaster to the party. He did not believe that Air. Joseph Chamberlain was likely to alter his original programme, nor that the people of Birmingham would be misled by the wiles of anti-food tax-

“THE BANGED-DOOR POLICY.”

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 12,

Sir John Simon, M.P. for Essex, speaking at Rochdale, said that of all shifts whereto the Unionists had been driven, the most annoying was the suggestion to postpone the food taxes and carry out the policy by taxing manufacturers. That would be a definite abandonment of colonial preference. Mr. Bonar Law, he said, nailed his colours to the mast, but the crew becoming mutinous, he locks his cabin door and handed through the window a roundrobin expressing devotion if they hauled down the flag. Unionists were moved, not by faith, but by funk.

The ‘Observer’ appeals to Mr. Bonar Law not to return to Balfourism. Better would it have been had Mr. Bouar Law and Lord Lansdowne resigned until the parties showed solid loyalty instead of lip loyalty. The terms of the memorial seem to indicate that the party were adopting the Churchill banged -door policy.