COMMONWEALTH TARIFF.
London, August 30.
Ike Daily Telegraph's chief leading 1 article makes a strenuous protest against the ignorance and fanaticism wherewith the Australian tariff is discussed 1 in the Ministerial press here, at the risk of causing it to be withdrawn. It ' ■aye the proffered preference is a sub- ; ■tantial boon of immediate value, and ' has enormous potential advantages, tiid 1 contends that Australia forwarnH n - of the intention to footer her o-.ni manufactures. She is absolute!, intitled to- foster them, and is under rol fiscal obligation to us. She geN the B&ine treatment •'- foreign c.nntri.s here. It is obvious and inevitable that tome lines of British trade will be injured, bat it is unwise and \in'-.ii-iri-like to throw the helve after the hatchet and say localise we cannot have everything we will throw away all. Tlie question is whether it is inevitable to be unmitigated as in foreign, or unmitigated as in the Canadian raarkot. o>n- , atdering that Austraia's purchase prr head u twice C'amda'a, and she is England's test market. her offer of preference i* .i« valunMc af Canada's. The article conclude Kv hoping that cool eounaela will prevail, and assure* Mr Deiikin that the matter is bettor understood than th* Radical press despite Mr A iiith's and Mr' Lloyd Geofjje'u appreciation of thp principle of. preference at th*> Imperial Conference. It adds that Mr Lloyd judicious intervention mijjht atfll aive preference in Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 2 September 1907, Page 3
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245COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 2 September 1907, Page 3
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