TARIFF REFORM
LORD LANSDOWNE CRITICISED. December 14. Sir John-Simon, Liberal member for Essex, sneaking at Leyton, criticised Lord Lansdowne's Albert Hall speech, and asked whether the tariff reformers intended to tax Colonial articles of food. Sir Edward Carson had sand yes, and Mr Bcnar Law had more than once asserted that the Colonials would be better treated than fnreigners Everv daw' said Sir John Simon, they were thrilled b- the splendid contributions to the navy, made by the overseas dominions. "Is it," he a shod, "the Unionist policv to tax colonial produce, and so cause v grievance with the British consumer by increasing the food prices, and a <meva-oe with the Colonial producer, who is denied from free access to the markets of the Motherland?"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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125TARIFF REFORM Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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