TARIFF REFORM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 238, 12 October 1904, Page 3

TARIFF REFORM.

|MK ASQUITH DEPRECATES REVOLUTION. AN INJURIOUS PRACTICE. LONDON, Oct. 10. * The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith (late Liberal Home Secretary), al- * though he did not believe in retaliation, would admit that in the circumstances it was not necessaril} antagonistic to free traile, but urgod that retaliation i 9 a practice more injurious to ourselves than the other States concerned. AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. MR DEAK3.N URGES ITS GREAT IMPORTANCE. MELBOURNE, Oct. 11 Mr Deakiri, regretting Mr Asquith's and Lord Rosebery's attitude in te- % gard to preference, said the matter was of such immense importance that it was-'.worth while having a conference in order that the people of the Empire may become salislied that thjs magmtucent ideal is a dreaiu and cannot be realised until we are satisfied, by the moat irrefragable proof and the most absolute demonstration. :}■ He could promise Mr Asquith that Australia and Canada would never rest, and the question would beV pressed for a solution until evett statesmen of eminence, including Mr Asquith, would be unable »to dam back the great tide when Jhey demanded inquiry, and later demanded realisation.