FISCAL UNITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 204, 30 June 1903, Page 3

FISCAL UNITY.

RB PEKBS ASSOCIATION. fl London, June 29. Sir W; Harcourt-J speaking M Malwood, dethred that the secret of Mr Chamberlain's political temperaBent was apparently a spirit of retaliation. It was risky to retaliate, not on Germany alone, while pretending it was no harden on the people least able to bear it, OPPOSITION TAOTIO3. Received 29,10.48 p.m. Losson, June 29. At a demonstration at Edinburgh attended by 20,000 people a reso'ution was carried that taxing food acd raw material would impoverish the people, diminish trade, and endanger foreign relations. -j. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman wrote that the entire scheme ccllapses unless food is taxed. Pin its advocates to that facs and let the people make their ohoire. _Mr Aiquith at a meeting at Boston •aid: "Let us by all means always keep our minds open for new facts and new arrangements wit-bout revealing a political childhood, and beginning over again the alphabet and multiplication table. The reckless launching cf Mr Chamberlain's scheme was a moat serious blow to the Empire's unity, bring- . ing, fiscally and politically, ins eid of >~~~-~ p€ace, a sword. OLBABIKG UP A POINT BKNBIBLE ADVIOB. Becehed 30,110 am LtrilboH, June 21). ifs Chamberiain has incidentally Bade it clear that the workers and •lectors themselves could hereafter declare the revenue available under his scheme shall be applied ultimatily to old age pensions or to immsdiate reductions on tea, tug-ir, or tobacco. Pensions were no essential feature in tha rafo: m of the fiscal policy Mheme. The newspsprrs have recommended the' public to await the rfsult of the economic irqiiry, and the presentation of a precise and intelligible echem*. Mr Chamberlain, in a letter thankl ing the East Birmingham Conservatives for their resolution sta'cd be would b* the last man to promote this discus un if he suppoid the scheme wtu'd in any circumstance injare-the WIIW of popolation.