Second Edition Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 9 May 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Great Britain

MR HUCHES IN CIREAT FORM. 1" STRIKING SPEECH '(Received .1,20 p.p.) .!.,.. Loadon, May 8. Mr hughes 1 ' delivered a striking ' sp«ech at the opening of the Sugar Conference,at Caxton Hall when delegates were present from India, Canada, the West liftlies, Egypt, Natal, Mauritius, and Australia. Mr Hughes paid a tribute to the Empire producers' organisation and the sun eanxl businesslike attack of the Sugar Industry in Waning a track toirauts the goal which was now plainly revealed. The conference was promoted* by the instinct of commercial and national self-preservation,, and they hoped to lay the cornea-stone of a new and better edifice. Continuing, Mr, Hughes said: "Our td.-umetlj'al and industrial greatness, is die immediate objective., Make the Empire -independent cf the enemy. There is^nq' why the Empire should "jot supply.her own sugar requirements. %% as grpw t n men, ought •,») put away .childish diversions. Our fioliey has no relation to Free Trade and Protection. We njust approach the problem often, with an unprejudicU .mincj as'a business proposition. The ' only considerations are our national safety &fj our social welfare. Under tho citing policy the British sugar industry hasVdecaved. The population of which is largely industrial, gets itjfood.from the Overseas, and it the present policy is persisted m, it will ultimately destroy us. The fabric of British industry at the outbreak oi x \,e way rested on alien, mostly enemy, oases. The existing policy is responsible lor discouraging a powerful navy. tr-l- everything necessary to save us ' was left undone. That is my inciictr&ent against,this policy. If we to(iav ,"re masters of our own destiny tkmks.are not duejbj-hat policy, but. -' ■-,> to "those resolute ~„.„ who kept their eyes upon the beaison ;dar of and safety."