BRITISH POLITICS.
POLITICAL VIEWS OF CIVIL """SERVANTS. OPPOSITION NOT PERMITTED. London, October 31. The Daily Express states that the Postmaster-General has forbidden the Central Telegraph men to form a branch of the Primrose (Conservative) League, thongh the formation of Liberal, Socialist, and Tariff societies has been allowed.
THE TARIFF QUESTION. London, October 31. The Hon. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Leven (Yorkshire), said that what had taken place at the Colonial Conference and the Introduction of the new Australian tariff proposals had combined to enormously atrengthen the freetrade cause in Britain. He challenged the Tory leaders to plainly answer the question whether, in order to obtain colonial preference, they were ready to tax foreign corn, I meaty wood, and wooL If Mr. Balfour ■aid "No!" he would doom his authority with his party; if he said "Yes!** he would doom the fortunes of the party. That was a rather sordid spectacle.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 5
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155BRITISH POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 5
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