The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-07
His Plan In Brief.

With regard to his plan he would state it briefly He proposed to put low duty not exceeding two shillngs (4S cents) quarter on foreign corn, but none on corn from the British possessions. He pro- posed no tax on maize partly because 1t formed the food of some of the very poorest among the population, and part ly because it was raw material as feed ing stuff He proposed a corresponding tax on four, and he would give special preference to the miller with the object of re-establishing one of our ancient in- dustries and of preventing a rush from the country to town, and also of placing corn. offal and feeding stuffs more cheap ly within the possession of the farmer
 A small tax of about 50 per cent on foreign meat and dairy products would be imposed, excluding bacon which was the food of so many of the poorest pop ulation. Lastly. he proposed to give a substantial preference to the colonies on wines and fruits.
 Against these increases he proposed some great remissions. He proposed to take off three-quarters of the duty on tea, half the duty on sugar, with corre- spending reductions upon cocoa and cof- fee. The net results of these impositions and remissions would be that the town ar- tlsans food would, according to the most elaborate calculations, cost him two pence half prenny 0 cents less per week than it does at present., while that of the ag- ricultural laborer would cost him two pence (4 cents less), but if as he believed a great part of the tax on food would be paid by the foreigners, there would be a reduction in the cost of food both for the artisan and the agricultural la borer.
 Loss In the Exchequer.
 The loss to the exchequer he estimated at e2,SOO,OOO but that and more he pro- posed to find in another branch of the policy of fiscal which was sometimes called retaliatory, and sometimes reef procity. He hoped for one thing, that the other countries would reduce their duties so that worse things might not come up- on them, but he thought that Great Brit ain would also have to raise her. S. A mod crate duty of 10 per cent on manufactured goods, varying according to the amount of labor in them, would give the ex- chequer 99,000.000 a year, and if he were chancellor of the exchequer he would make use of that sum for the commission of taxation
 The question was: What would the colonies say? He believed they would treat generously any offer Great Britain might make.
 Mir. Chamberlain concluded
 'It is because I sympathize with their object and appreciate the generosity of their offer it is for these things and for no personal ambition. that I have given up the office l was so proud to hold. and that now when I might, I think, fairly claim a period of rest, I have taken up new burdens and come before you as a missionary of the empire, to urge upon you again. as in old times, when I pro- tested against a disruption of the United Kingdom, once again to warn you, to urge you, to implore you to do nothing that will tend towards the distegration of the empire, not to refuse to sacrifice futile superstitious and prejudice, and thereby to lose the result of centuries of noble effort and patriotic endeavor.
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