THE FISCAL QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 260, 2 December 1903, Page 3

THE FISCAL QUESTION.

CONSERVATIVES "MARCHING INTO DANGER." CANADIAN IRON EXPORT. LONDON, Nov. 30. Sir J. Dickson Poynder, member for Chippenham, addressing, the Wilts Conservative Association, condemned Mr Chamberlain for scouring the country with a drawn sword proposing revolutionary and reactionary measures. The Conservative Party was marching heedlessly into 1 a path fraught with incalculable danger, and if it adopted protection he would be unable to follow it. The however, favoured Mr Ohaniib|srlain's policy. The Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Air Chamberlain's proposals. The Right Hon. R. B. Haldane (Literal M.P.) in a speech at Glasgow said that anyone proposing to overthrow Freetrade wjas a madman. If Mr Chamjbprlain was successful the result would not he free trade within the Empire, but a linking ol' the system of Federal countries, which were Protectionist against each other.

Mr Lysaght, iron manufacturer, in a letter to the Times, replying to Mr Walter McLaren and Lord Rosebery's statements that Canada was dumping pig iron, declared that the allegations were ridiculously inaccurate, sinco Canada's iron exports were insufficient. For the year ending June, 1903, Canada exported to Britain 244 ' tons of iron and steel ; for the same period Britain imported from other countries over a million tons. In July and August Canada sent 602 tons ; others 400,000 tons.

CANADIAN OPINIOTT. OTTAWA, Dec. 1. The Premier of Ontario, speaking) at Toronto, depreca/ted a reciprocity treaty with fftlier States. He strongly supported Mr Chamberlain's proposed preferences, which he thought very advantageous in stimulating Canadian industries.