COLONIAL PREFERENCE.
MR ASQUITH'S CHALLENGE
ACCEPTED.
Received November 3, 3 p.m. LONDON, November 2,
Mr William Hewins, secretary of the Tariff Commission, in a letter to the Timse, states that he is perfectly prepared to accept the Hon. H. H. Asquith's challenge if he will state definitely and concisely the arguments and statistics upon which he stands.
(The Right. Hon. H. H. Asquith Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Leven, Fifeshire, said that what had taken place at the Colonial Conference, and the Australian tariff, had combined to enormously strengthen the freetrade feeling in Britain. Mr Asquith challenged the Tory leaders to plainly answer if, in order to obtain colonial preference, they were ready to tax foreign corn, meat, wood and wool. If Mr Balfour said "No," he would doom his authority with the the party, "Yes," he doomed the fortunes of his party. That was rather a sordid spectacle.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8871, 4 November 1907, Page 5
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150COLONIAL PREFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8871, 4 November 1907, Page 5
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