HINT FROM BALDWIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 9

HINT FROM BALDWIN

GREAT BRITAIN MUST DICTATE TREATIES FREE TRADE PASSING United I*. A..—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. Tuesday. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, delivered a speech last evening in the Free Trade Hall. Manchester. He said the only equal terms upon which trade treaties could be negotiated were those which would enable British traders to say: “If you do not give us some advantage we shall hit you on the head.” Free trade was passing today because no free traders w r ere being born. The policy of laissez faire was dead and

safeguarding for t.he first time gave Britain a weapon tv i t h which to negotiate trade treaties. “In no circumstances shall this country at the forthcoming elec- j tion be asked to vote in favour of food taxes,” said-

Mr. Baldwin. “It is a matter of such importance that our people must not be asked to vote blindfold upon it. Therefore food taxes will play no part in the next general election. “The only part they can play after the election will be if the Dominions are prepared to offer an advantage which will seem to me to be worth placing before the British electors for them to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to it.”