THE FISCAL CONTROVERSY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 5

THE FISCAL CONTROVERSY

MB CUI'Bt'IIILL OS PRKt'EKENC'I 3 FALLACIES. . j . Received sth, 10.17 p.m. ,*. v London, July 5. - At the Colxlen Club's annual dinne | M Winston Churchill said no offer wi nude to the Imperial Conference cxw] " ■ an offer to take everything we can gi\ ' t The Conference produced absolutely ii effect upon the free-trade forces of tl country, or on the or tli Liberal and Radical parties, but produce a profound effect ujion the Conservativ party, which was now homogneou ■olid, and agreed with the protection!; party. The Imperial preference move meat did not derive its force from a dr (ire to unify the Empire. If not suy ported by the driving power of selfis vested Interest, the movement possess® no life, stability, or strength. Sub ventions and common objects woul< ierre to unite the Empire equally a; well as preference. Senator Pulsford, of Sydney, resound ing the cause of free-trade, declared thai thousand)) of Australian free-trader; gloried in Britain's free-trade policy Some day, he said, a wave of free-trade opinion would sweep over the Common wealth and determine it to stand shoul > ' derto shoulder with the Motherland ii attempting a free-trade Empire.