FISCAL UNITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 121, 23 May 1903, Page 3

FISCAL UNITY.

118. OHAMBBKLAIN'S LOGIO. 818 OHARLB3 DILEK'S VIEWS, FIB PSSIB ASSOCIATION. Received 22, XIS p.m. London, May 22. Ur Chambarlain, writiog to a Cjnkiituant, says" I am fully convinced the prosperity of the couatry dopsnls largely o a its trade wish the co'oaies, which, under a wise system of mutual concession, will increase by leaps and bounds. We hive bean apt in the pist to consider too much the aivantage of buying cheaply, and did not pay sufficient attention to the methods whereby we may h»Vd the meias of enabling us pay at all. Increased wages are even more important to the working class thin reduced cost of living. Sir Charles D.lke s*ys there has nlways been a divergence in Australian and Canadian opinion. Sometimes is ia assumed from the speeches of a few . leading Australians that there exists in Australia a device for what is called closer relation?, but it is difficult to show' that any Australian pirty had ever accepted this standpoint. LORD RO3EBERY EXPLAINS. Receive! 22. 11.19 p.m. London, May 13. Lord Ro?ebary expresses surprise at his Buraley speech being interpreted as suppwtiog Mr Chimberlain. Is would, he said, have baen unseemly , and iujudiciojs in addressing an audience divided on the question to summarily dismiss any plio, if proposed on the responsibility of the Government, to promote clossr ties between B:itain and the colonies, especially when the idea was eminently congeaial to sims of tha olonies ; but L he adheres to his previous views that an united-Imperial tuiff to be practicable mu« be just and acceptable, both to the United Kingdom and the colonies. He previously indicated the nature of the ooj tction, which he believed would bs unsurmountable.

XiRIlfF LSAGUii FORMED, I Received 23, 1.1 a.m London, May 22. At a private m eting at Westminster yesterdiy, the Gomnnns manufacturers formed a tariff leigu3 to organise opinion, by m-ans of local committers, to ignore party politics, and pronnte preferential traie wi'ih the Empire after the plan of the Birmingham speech. The treasurer of the leagu3 secured 3000 minufactureis' signatures to a petition to rearrange fiscal duties. OPPOSITION BY LIBERALS. Received 23, 1.4 a.m. London, May 22. Mr Asquitb, at Doncastar, said Mr Ohambe laiu's propm's will have the unqu ilifiid and united opposition of the Liberal pirty, and that other Liberal leaders will eim la-ly resist on the ground partly that the success ol the policy vrould mean free markets and an open door. The Standard siys Canada was enthusiastic over the zo'.lverein idea, and that Aus ralia apparently, sceptical. A fi-c l policy m-ist be vindicated by tr. I/ins; icumU.I I 11. t ':IV 11 V., ; .1, ... . „ ■. i „• I IK. 1. '. ... ' ! j. ■ • • ( Is 6<l aba 2a ucl.—Avivii,