FISCAL UNITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1903, Page 3

FISCAL UNITY.

A RABID KFFOBION. ' Per Prws Association. . ' Beceived 7, 4.37 pn. ' London, June 6. Sir H. ia a ' (peech at Perth, declared tha* the ' Government, with a view »o eluding ' critic'sm and escaping dilemmas and •' difficulties, wholly, or in part: of their ' own creation, had borrowed *he cuttle- ' fiah tactics of emitting an inky fluH to * confuse their pursuers. Mr Chamber- ' lain's fi-cil scheme was intended to cement the Empire in the bonds of self interest. " I have never been an exceptionally ardector t ffueive imperia- ■ list, but yield to no man in my admiration for loyalty to, and pi ids in ' the Empire; but I do not rate ' my pride and loyally so low as 1 to balieve such fquclid binds 1 are necessary to maintain it." Sir Henry Campbell-Bancerman appealed to a half century's tcs'imory as to the blessings of free traJe, and con- ! tended protection mesnt that tho cost of f cod would be raised so as to give Colonial producers profits, and landowners better rents. He went on to say that on the hee's of the tariffs came the trua's leading to a national demonstration. According to Charleß Booth, formerly President of the Statistical Society, there were twelve millions in Britain who were underfed and on the verge of hunger; theroforp, for every one in the Colonies that Mr Chamberlain's policy was intended to benefit, one head in Britain would be shoved nnder the water. The Government were engaged in a grand diversion, making a bonfire of free trade, and consigning to the flimes their past mistakes. Let them be careful lest thev so* *hn Empire ablazs, and its prosperity be reduced to ashes The, Li*'B'al» must enlighten the country, recalling haw low wages, st'-rvation dfspn'r,turbuleßce, and riotineobtained in Britain when the country was bound by protection. THE TIMEB IN RKPLY. Beceived 8,12.51 a.m. Losdoh, Jure 7. The Times says that in the absence cf Mr-Chimberlain's concrete proposal?, Sir H. Campbell-Bannermin furnishes him with monstrous proposal?, accusing him of a deliberate return to the worst abuses of indiscriminate and irrational protection, adding that his denunciation of the bonds and material inte ests as ''squalid" deserves to rank with the expression and methods cf barbarism.