The Fiscal Question.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7959, 24 October 1905, Page 3

The Fiscal Question.

lord Bosetej'sHeplytolfWte The Liberal and Tory Banners. (Received Oct. 23 9.53 !>■>«■> LONDON, Oct. 23. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Ktlin-buri-h, controverts Mr Wise* <>c w South Wales) recent specen, which he described as airing the fly-blown fallacies of protection. He asked whetlicr it w. s consistent with the dignity of mi ex-Minisln <>< i»c Crown to come 13.000 miles to stigmatise one i f tlic &reat political Parties as havir- no policy-but one of stagnation ;tni drift, wholly out of sympathy with Imperial ideas and ignorant of Imperial aspirations. "I am inclined to think," said Lord Roscberv, "that when my old friend Sir Henry Campbell-Barinerman returns from his well earned holiday to take command of the Liberal fortress, the last epithet applicable to that : wrty wi'.l U- t':il il is 'stagBant."

Lord Rosebery ir e-d.-.l to challenge Mr Wise to trove !■...i plebiscite in bis Stile .'hat tli- i-olomra are, as he says, in enthusiastic sympathy with the Tory Party. "The banner on the one side," added Lord Rosebery, "will he- the Liberal Parly's with freedom of Hade, and freedom for the Kmpire. while the banner of the Tory Party, on theother side, will Ue Chinese labour. If the Australians rikj'.onrted as Mr Wise anticipated,.we shall know that they put their hands and strength! into the war, and fought- so efficiently in South Africa, not to restore- to Great llritain her paramount interests, but to introduce into South A(ric a Chinese labour, not one item whereof was allowed to enter town precincts." He hoped that the Liberal Parly, when it resumed power, would earnrstly strive to do more than it has hithertoforc done to win the confidence of the outer-Hritains of the Kmpire. Lord Rosebery addid that the Kmpire had been built up only bv Liberalism.